Feminist criticism of corporate power
August 6, 2020 |
The virtual book and video series “Feminist Criticism of Corporate Power” are online! The material is the result of the feminist elaboration process for the 5th International Action of the World March of Women, which has the denunciation of transnational companies as a central axis. “We resist to live, we march to transform” is the ...
We are thousands of women supporting the Mapuche people
August 4, 2020 |
DECLARATION OF THE WORLD MARCH OF WOMEN
We, organized women and members of the World March of Women – Americas, strongly repudiate the racist and colonialist attack against the Mapuche people. And we denounce the following:
Four days ago, Victor Perez was appointed Minister of the Interior. He is known for his tough stance on the right ...
We continue organizing
August 2, 2020 |
The coordinations of the World March of Women in Europe have been mobilizing since March, when we launched our 5th International Action, with activities both in the networks and in the streets. The news sent by the comrades from Euzkal Herria and Neuchatel show us how, with the arrival of the pandemic, the mobilization continued, ...
The cycle of injustice, exploitation and oppression will be broken.
August 2, 2020 |
Due to the destructive neoliberal economic policies which eliminated what was left of the Lebanese economy after the end of the civil war and created an unproductive rentier economy, relying mainly on services in the form of the banking sector -with the approval, participation, and use of all political parties in power, even those which ...
Women’s struggle in Kurdistan
August 2, 2020 |
The capitalist system which thrives on ecological destruction and exploitation is striving to turn the Covid-19 pandemic process into an opportunity to extricate itself out of its multi-faceted down flow all over the world. As women of the MENA region, while working hard to come up with ways of protecting ourselves and our societies against ...
The palestinian people in the face of colonization, occupation, and the COVID-19 pandemic
August 2, 2020 |
Palestinian women face many challenges in their daily lives, these challenges are represented as obstacles put forward by colonization, the annexation plans, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Israeli occupation continues its colonial policies aiming to abolish the Palestinian cause through a series of policies including ethnic cleansing plans, specifically in Jerusalem, daily invasion and arrests, military ...
Stop the ravaging of Cabo Delgado
August 1, 2020 |
In June, the World March of Women signed a letter demanding transnational corporations to stop the ravaging of Cabo Delgado, the northernmost province of Mozambique. The gas industry is causing devastation in Cabo Delgado, with communities starving and landless, even before any gas has been extracted. The letter has a broad description of what is ...
Consuming in solidarity
July 31, 2020 |
abuela Tlanespilli and Elizabeth Chaparro at the mercadito flor de luna, Jalisco, Mexico.
In Jalisco, consuming toxic free food means rebellion, resistance, organization and solidarity in the hands of rural women who bet on agriculture for life!
Self-care, such an important issue in these times of pandemic, provokes deep reflection on what enters our mouths, what we ...
Authoritarianism attacks women’s rights, bodies, territories.
July 31, 2020 |
Neoliberal authoritarianism does not respect quarantine. And in times of pandemic, the repression of women who resist increases. The comrades of the World March of Women in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) send us news from Kurdistan, Lebanon and Palestine, territories in which authoritarianism, militarization and economic crises intensified before the spread of ...
“At precisely 3.24 p.m. an intense cry of anger was heard everywhere.”
July 31, 2020 |
In Switzerland as elsewhere in the world, Covid-19 has placed women at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic. No one can deny it: without them, without their work seven days a week, 24 hours a day, survival would be unimaginable. This work may be essential for our lives and the functioning of society ...