After the collective "Without warning," the collective "Handbag" or how to organize the
rightward minds in St Denis on the backs of women. ---- Stop recovery of the cause of
women for safe and racist ---- Stop the theory of the working classes dangerous classes
discount up to date ---- We, feminist activists and Saint Denis and feminist supporters of
the front anti-patriarchal struggle of the CGA, intervene to denounce the maneuvers that
divide us, and trying to mount the head-es de Saint Denis them one against the other. ----
We refuse, on the backs of women, the dissemination of ideas and safe policing privileges.
We especially do not want our anger, that of women, is deflected from the real responsible
for the return against the "young, poor and immigrant origin".
Why we ask what colletif "bag-in-hand" withdraw photographs and text on our action, their
blog and their Facebook page?
On July 2, we made a collage of feminist affirmation and solidarity between women against
violence and exploitation, and against all those who want to divide us. Our tour collage
aimed especially places where we got more than tired of seeing posters are the collective
"Sac-hand." These posters, the cause of women is exploited for security purposes and
antisocial. Indeed, racist stereotypes and antipauvres are conveyed. Note the "Welcome to
Saint-Denis" with as a young visual hooded and jogging . So our intiative has nothing to
do with the collective "Handbag", as one ad on his blog, quite the contrary. And our
struggles are not for sale.
This same strategy division has already rife in St Denis with attempts to implement the
collective "Without warning". The latter, ridden by a person responsible for the property,
a diffuse antipauvre and security discourse.
WE DO NOT BE DIVIDED leave!
The actions of men and women in this group have nothing feminist in that they are not
spaces of empowerment for women or fight against inequalities they face. The prevalence of
this group relies more on defense classes favored by disseminating the idea of "the
working classes, dangerous classes", so dear to the bourgeoisie, small it may be . We
denounce gender stereotypes disseminated by this group. It presents "woman" as to wear
heels and bag in hand, see their survival kit. No, being a woman is above all, and
whatever the dress, part of a of oppressed class, that with or without heels, with or
without bag in hand, French or immigrant,
These bias and racist stereotypes disseminated, the collective "Handbag" is dam all
possible solidarity among women.
Moreover, we are surprised that one of our posters, describing the actions of organized
divisions, including the collective "Handbags" to break the solidarity among women, was
not relayed to their website. It seems important to give the matters complained of by this
poster: racism, insecurity, competition between women, homophobia, obligation to seduction.
Ladies and Gents of "Handbags", the violence does not stop a stolen bag in hand. Emphasize
that this type of violence, a minor under the system of violence that turns against single
women, is a way to invisibiliser violence we have and that are part of the war waged
against all women: the one of us three has experienced sexual violence, every two days one
of us is murdered because we live in a society that gives all powers to men including
killing, one of us is raped and her life stolen, one of us six suffers domestic violence.
Such violence is the product of a system, patriarchy, that we will fight as long as necessary.
WE DO NOT LEAVE!
Women of Saint-Denis, LET'S SOLIDARITY!
July 10
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