What's new this week: there is no place for justice and equality on the free trade agenda
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::: There Is No Place for Justice and Equality on the Free Trade Agenda
By Natália Carrau/REDES-FoE. Transnational corporations and free trade agreements hide behind sustainability and gender equality discourses to increase the power of the market over life. | Analysis
::: 2021: Feminist Resistance and Solidarity Around the World
Across all continents, women are organized and struggling to sustain life. This article brings together the analyses and struggles that participants shared during the “Feminist Resistance and Solidarity Around the World” webinar, held by the World March of Women and Capire on March 23 | Experience
::: Feminist Infographics Against Racism and Colonialism
Amplifying a feminist reflection with grassroots education and mobilization processes. Systematizing and exposing rebellious ideas to change the world. Occupying the city. Those were the organizing strategies of the World March of Women in the Basque Country (Euskal Herria) for its 5th International Action | Experience
::: #FeministSchool: To Understand and Tackle Systems of Oppression
Colonialist, heteropatriarchal, and racist capitalism: overlaps that exploit and subjugate the peoples. The meeting of the International Feminist Organizing School on April 12th and 13th was dedicated to a discussion about systems of oppresion. “May we concretely dismantle capitalism, patriarchy, discrimination, racism” | Experience
::: Gallery: Peasant Struggles and Food Sovereignty
Women are the leading figures in Food Sovereignty. Learn more about this struggle with the photographs of the archives of La Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth, and the World March of Women | Gallery
Review: 3 months of Capire
The Capire portal was launched on January 6th, 2021, eager to start the new year strengthening the voices of women who organize to change the world. And since then, it’s been 3 months of feminist news, powerful reflections, collective experiences, contributions from women of grassroots movements around the world. Watch the video that compiles our publications from January to April 2021:
...And, since you are here, access also past weeks' content:
::: Agroecology as Resistance: Indigenous Women Defending Their Territory and Traditional Practices In Malaysia
Read about the agroecological experiences and struggles of the women of the Sungai Bur community as they affirm their sovereignty and reclaim their rights to their land | Experience
::: Pancha Rodríguez: Food Sovereignty Is About Deciding To Change the World
Read the interview with Pancha Rodríguez, of CLOC-La Via Campesina, on the history of struggle of peasant women in the Americas | Interview
::: 20 Years of Feminism and Internationalist Solidarity in Pictures
Check out pictures from a book that celebrates the World March of Women’s 20th anniversary | Culture
::: Breaking the Line that Binds Poverty and Women in Iraq
The World March of Women Iraq offers a reflection on neoliberalism, oppression against women, and poverty. This text is also available in Arabic, its original language. “Women’s dilemma lurks on the line of society’s dilemmas. In neoliberal societies, the imperialist media machine and local authorities recurrently legitimate sexist discrimination.” | Analysis
::: #FeministSchool: Sharing Technologies, Knowledge, and Struggles
Here’s how the welcoming session and technical training workshop went down at the International Feminist Organizing School. “They build a feminist, anti-racist school with solidarity as its practice, as a horizon and as a program to change society” | Experience
::: Vaccination, health rights and women’s work in the pandemic
Women from Brazil, Belgium and South Africa indicate popular ways to confront the pandemic. “Corporate profits are not more important than the lives of millions of poor people around the globe” (Wilhelmina Trout) | Video
::: Alexandra Kollontai: The Years of Revolution
Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary who fought bravely against the brutality of tsarism, political persecution, and the reality of hunger and war that ravaged life in pre-Soviet Russia. We selected parts of the “The Years of Revolution” section from her 1926 book “The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman.” | Experience
::: Feminism in Mozambique: For Land, Freedom, Sisterhood, and a Life Free of Violence
Nzira Deus exposes land encroachment and violence in Mozambique and shares feminist strategies toward organizing for change. | Analysis
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