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Liaison newsletter - July 2009
22-07-2009
For the last few years we have been in agreement that our movement should aim to act as a rapid response network, showing and acting out our solidarity with women and men around the world in emergency situations, sharing information between our NCBs, Participating Groups and allies, and mobilising for demonstrations and other actions (petitions, vigils in front of embassies in our countries, boycotting of transnational companies, etc) that aim to pressurise governments or companies that threaten the rights of those who organise themselves and who live in dignity.
In the last month we‘ve unfortunately had to put our aspiration for such a network into practice several times: to demand the release of Turkish activists, the majority of whom are trade-unionists, illegally arrested at the end of May (22 of whom remain in prison, including 4 World March of Women sisters, see article below); to protest against the extreme violence and repression perpetrated by Alan García’s government against Indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon (see article below); and to support the Haitian people’s struggle for a fair minimum wage and against the violence perpetrated by the UN ‘peacekeeping’ forces in their country.
In addition to these periods in which we need to express our solidarity in an agile and pertinent way, we also recognise the need to struggle alongside our allies against the criminalisation and violent repression of social movements. During our 2010 actions, as well as affirming our demands and commitments assumed at international and national levels, we can also express our solidarity by denouncing concrete cases of women’s and people’s rights violations, and by demanding that the governments and parliaments in our countries and regions are held responsible.
We have also been closely following the situation in Iran and Honduras, via the reports we have been receiving from activists and friends of the World March of Women. As a consequence of different factors and political processes, our sisters are living through critical moments in their countries, moments in which our solidarity and our capacity to disseminate the information and analyses of those who are struggling for justice and freedom, is crucial.
Click HERE to read or download the July 2009 WMW Liaison Newsletter.
In the last month we‘ve unfortunately had to put our aspiration for such a network into practice several times: to demand the release of Turkish activists, the majority of whom are trade-unionists, illegally arrested at the end of May (22 of whom remain in prison, including 4 World March of Women sisters, see article below); to protest against the extreme violence and repression perpetrated by Alan García’s government against Indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon (see article below); and to support the Haitian people’s struggle for a fair minimum wage and against the violence perpetrated by the UN ‘peacekeeping’ forces in their country.
In addition to these periods in which we need to express our solidarity in an agile and pertinent way, we also recognise the need to struggle alongside our allies against the criminalisation and violent repression of social movements. During our 2010 actions, as well as affirming our demands and commitments assumed at international and national levels, we can also express our solidarity by denouncing concrete cases of women’s and people’s rights violations, and by demanding that the governments and parliaments in our countries and regions are held responsible.
We have also been closely following the situation in Iran and Honduras, via the reports we have been receiving from activists and friends of the World March of Women. As a consequence of different factors and political processes, our sisters are living through critical moments in their countries, moments in which our solidarity and our capacity to disseminate the information and analyses of those who are struggling for justice and freedom, is crucial.
Women on the March until we are All Free!
Click HERE to read or download the July 2009 WMW Liaison Newsletter.
