What's new this week: self-determination and feminism to change the economy
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Capire is a media tool to echo the voices of women in movement, to publicize the struggles from different territories, and to strengthen local and international references of anti-capitalist, anti-racist, grassroots feminism. To learn more, watch this video or read our presentation.
::: Free, Prior and Informed Consent: A Tool For Indigenous Self-determination
Indigenous feminists and their struggles for the right of existence and for power over their land and resources. "I think there is a whole effort of indigenous women to build this concept of feminism, to struggle and to work towards equal gender relations in the community” | Analysis
::: Feminist Economy, a Contribution for the Cuban Social Model
Teresa Lara Junco looks into the work carried out by Cuban women and proposes a feminist agenda for the economy. "We, as feminists, have the task to turn data into information, then turn information into knowledge, making it possible to measure and appreciate unpaid work and change the organization of this kind of labor." | Analysis
::: #FeministSchool: The Critiques and Proposals of Feminist Economy
On June 7th and 8th, this was the topic discussed at the Berta Cáceres International Feminist Organizing School. Feminist economy offers criticism against androcentrism in the ruling economy that deems the white man as the universal being. It also challenges the limitation of the economy to what a money equivalent receives and circulates in the market. | Experience
Watch the Animated Film “It’s Time To Put an End To Free Trade”
A video by Friends of the Earth Brazil and the World March of Women shows how free trade is attacking lives in the global South. The animation features two characters, Fátima and Rita, urban workers who are feeling the impacts of the crisis in Brazil firsthand. Amid unemployment and informal and precarious work, care and housework overload, increasing poverty and hunger, and thousands of deaths due to the coronavirus, they hear the news that the EU-Mercosur trade agreement is about to be signed after 20 years of negotiations.
...And while you are here, check out our content from previous weeks:
::: Solidarity To Build A Free Palestine
During the last attacks by Israel over #SheikhJarrah, a Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem, people from all around the world got together to raise awareness and express solidarity. Read the testimonials and reports of feminist activists from Middle East and North of Africa | Experience
::: Women’s Political Participation in Ivory Coast: A Mission for Peace
Read and listen to our interview with Solange Koné, of the World March of Women Ivory Coast, on women’s political participation in the country, the challenges of the pandemic, and feminist practices for peace | Interview
::: The Struggle For Food Sovereignty Is The Struggle For Life
Read the article of Perla Álvarez, from CLOC-Vía Campesina, on how peasants and indigenous movements struggle for food sovereignty as a way to resist agribusiness and capitalist exploration of people, land and food | Analysis
::: A History of Women Challenging Religious Fundamentalism in Pakistan
Capire talked to Bushra Khaliq, from the World March of Women, about women’s struggles in South Asia for their rights and liberty. "We cannot say such words in public, but in the collective, women are together. This unity is the best strategy to denounce such violences and to fight back those forces" | Interview
::: To Reflect on the Conflict Between Capital and Life in the Global South and North
Read an excerpt from “Together and Rebellious: Exploring Territories of Feminist Economics,” a publication created between the Basque Country and Brazil. The excerpt discusses the capital-life conflict and it is an invitation to read the publication and take part in this collective effort to understand the world and change it through feminist economy | Analysis
::: #FeministSchool: State and Democracy Are Battlegrounds of Feminist Struggle
Read about the session on state and democracy, with experiences shared by women from different parts of the world, such as Kenya, Venezuela, Kurdistan, and Bolivia. There are no “how to” guide books on forging change in each territory from its own people’s history and organization | Experience
::: Chile: Feminist, Rebellious, Constituent Territory
By Danixa Navarro and Rocío Alorda. What is happening in Chile after the victory of the left and social movements in the Constitutional Convention election. "Territory-based organizations have elaborated views on the future we want for women and the country" | Experience
::: Louise Michel and the Women of the Paris Commune
Learn about the women of the Paris Commune through the words of Louise Michel. Today we celebrate the 191st birthday of this historic fighter! We translated excerpts from her book “The Commune” [La Commune], first published in French in 1898 | Experience
::: Feminist Solidarity to Migrants and Refugees in Europe
Read and listen to the contribution of Marianne Ebel, member of the World March of Women Switzerland, in the “Migration and Refuge on the Feminist Agenda” webinar. "We refuse to be accomplices of the death and exclusion policies that affect the people who are subject to the most precarious conditions in the world" | Analysis
::: Colombia: Mobilization Continues To Grow
On May 11th, Real World Radio interviewed Marylen Serna, a peasant leader from Cauca, Colombia, and the spokesperson for the Peoples’ Congress [Congreso de los Pueblos]. You can listen to the interview at the RWR website (in Spanish) and read it here at Capire. After decades of armed conflict, “the social conflict remains intact,” says Marylen Serna | Interview
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