The month of July is marked by very important dates in the history of the struggle of Black and African women. In the Americas region, July 25th is celebrated as Black, Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Day. In Africa, the Panafrican Women’s Day is celebrated on July 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Throughout the month, the World March of Women (WMW) in various parts of the world was involved in activities and initiatives to mark the importance of these dates and to recapture the contributions of black women in the struggle for a more just world, free from the violence of colonial, racist and patriarchal capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MMM Americas: Black Women, Resisting to Live, Marching to Transform!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The history of struggle of black women is a fundamental part of the history of struggle of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples<\/a>. More than resisting, women who organize collectively to combat multiple racist oppressions have built a political repertoire that affirms the Buen Vivir (Good living)<\/em> and a social transformation that liberates us from racist and patriarchal capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To talk about the perspectives and experiences of these struggles in the Americas, the World March of Women met on July 23rd, in a live broadcast that counted with the presence of sisters from Cuba, Honduras, Chile, Peru, Brazil, United States and Venezuela: Analoy Lafargue (Cuba), Juliana Mittelback (Brazil), Mariana Lacerda (Brazil), Massay Crisanto (Honduras) and Piper Carter (USA), as well as the cultural presentation of Gabi da Pele Preta (Brazil) and Luta Cruz (Chile).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Racism against the Black population and indigenous peoples is structural to the consolidation of the countries of the continent. Marginalizing and invisibilizing the contributions of these peoples are strategies for the advancement of the violence of capitalism on the lives of people and territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Capitalism and racism are systems that feed each other, capitalism as a system that exploits people and has in its roots the maintenance of inequalities, finds in racism the possibility of its greater exploitation, having also the acceptance already set by the history of slavery, that this population is subalternized and can be exploited and placed at the margin and being appropriated”, emphasized Juliana Mittelbach, from WMW Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Analoy Lafargue brought her reflection from the Cuban reality: “From early on, it was realized that the construction of socialism was not possible without the epistemic basis of feminism and an anti-racist struggle. Thus, women in a general sense enjoyed broad possibilities of emancipation and independence from hetero-normative male domination.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the blog of the World March of Women of Cuba<\/u><\/a> it is also possible to read a reflection made from the contributions of comrade Analoy Lafargue representing the Cuban Women Federation (Federaci\u00f3n de Mujeres Cubanas – FMC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The activity besides strengthening the political and cultural exchange of the comrades of the region contributes to the mobilization of the March of the Americas in the process of preparation for the international meeting of the WMW at the end of October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the Youtube transmission of the World March of Women of Brazil in Portuguese, and on Facebook of the WMW Chile in Spanish<\/a>, it is possible to check all the contributions and the cultural presentations of the women:<\/p>\n\n\n\n