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24 Hours of Feminist Action around the World - World March of Women International Declaration
Today, on the 10th December 2012, we, the activists of the World March of Women, shall carry out actions within our communities between midday and 1pm. Starting in New Caledonia and across the globe until reaching Seattle, we will be mobilised during 24 hours, to demonstrate our awareness towards what is happening in the world, the attacks perpetrated on women's rights, and to make our acts of resistance as well as our alternatives known.
Today, in 2012, our efforts to find other ways to organise our lives that overcome patriarchy, capitalism, racism and lesbophobia have become even more relevant as we face the systemic crises and the false solutions promoted for them. The economic crisis is worsening the problem of unemployment, which is being met with austerity measures and cuts to social policies. The only response given to the environmental crisis and climate change is the privatisation of nature. The impacts of the care-work fall largely on women's shoulders crisis, as they remain responsible for, and burdened with, caring for the most basic needs we all have. These false solutions are imposed by corporations and financial technocrats who have captured the political arena, as well as by the criminalisation of social struggles, and the increase of militarisation. They strengthen themselves through the promotion of conservatism, an increase in attacks by different religious fundamentalists, the increase in all types of violence against women, as well as through the control and commodification of our bodies, and the weakening of our rights and of the progress that we women have made.
The Filipino poet Joi Barrios summarises it best: "To be a woman, is to live in a time of war."
We women weave the very fabric of our lives against the backdrop of permanent crisis. We build alternatives for the production and preparation of food, for care-giving, in the solidarity economy, in community radios and in many other mediums of communication within our social movements, and in popular celebrations exempt from sexism and discrimination. We develop counter-hegemonic practices which join with our alternatives built on people's power, which recover our grandmother's memories as well as that of many other feminist activists, which re-establish harmony between humans and the environment, which invite us to debate what a life worth living is.
We propose building another world where exploitation, oppression, intolerance and exclusion no longer exist, and where integrity, diversity and the rights and freedoms of all are respected.
Together we carry out a common action on the 10th December, as we strengthen resistance in our respective countries and throughout the world:
We march
We organise and resist
We march
And we rebel
We march
And we build other ways of life
We march
And we unite
We march
We acknowledge each other and decide
We march
We speak and shout
We march
And we create an alternative economy
We march
We dance and sing
We march
And we take to the streets
We march
We remember, and discover ourselves
We march
And from our roots upwards, we are
We march
And freely live our sexuality
We march
And reaffirm feminism as the space for the real solutions we seek
We march
We struggle,
We march and build lives which are worth living
We will remain united until all of us are free!
Women in resistance, 10th December 2012
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