France, Alternative Libertaire AL #248 - March 8: launch of
the World March of Women (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
Every five years, the World March of Women, a network that has groups everywhere where
women feel concerned, feminist organizing events around the world. It works throughout the
year to address the causes of poverty and violence against women. ---- The launch of the
World March of Women (WMW) was held on March 8, International Day (struggles) women. This
year, the European caravan will leave Turkey and Kurdistan and will arrive on October 17
in Portugal. April 24 will be marked by 24 hours of feminist solidarity for the
anniversary of the disaster of Rana Plaza (building collapse in Bangladesh that killed
more than 1000 workers exploited and underpaid) and feminist Agora will take place 6 and 7
June in Nantes. ---- Other feminist actions will be organized in many cities of France. On
19 September, the women of the Mediterranean will meet in Marseilles. In the program, five
themes to illustrate inequalities and the violence against women:
Migration and Immigration: Women are more numerous among migrants, they face the same
difficulties than men across from the walls of rich countries, and also suffer rape and
prostitution during the trip. In France, they are often regularized as wives, as
accompanying patients without own status or are undocumented.
Extreme-right and religious extremism: Saudi Women have no rights, women in Chile who do
not have the right to abortion, incarcerations under the fabric, attacks against school
programs promoting equality Lesbophobia the ... reactionary religious values are on the
offensive against women's rights.
Violence against women: Rape, assault, genital mutilation, early marriage, so-called honor
crimes, sexist insults, street harassment, droit de seigneur ... Every moment of women's
lives may be the time of the meeting with the patriarchal violence.
Food sovereignty and climate justice: This is the capitalists who make the decisions and
the economic authorities serve their interests. They are responsible for the destruction
of food crops, farm workers and workers in export crops, looting of natural resources,
feeding of armed conflict, climate damage whose catastrophic effects batter poor
countries. More poverty, less food, wars with their attendant rape, disasters depleting in
all crisis situations women are more affected than men.
Labor and financial autonomy: Women are more unemployed women, occupy more part-time jobs,
are paid less, have "careers" discontinuous, smaller pensions. Often condemned torque or
misery.
Every March 8 every 25 November, the result is the same, women are abused and
discriminated. Everywhere, all the time ... Now what?
Christine (AL-Sarthe Orne)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?8-mars-lancement-de-la-marche
