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Liaison Newsletter - October 2009
26-10-2009
Dear sisters,
At the International Meeting in Lima in July 2006 we posed ourselves the challenge to organise ourselves as a movement to be reckoned with. This means having the strength to influence the increasingly complex political, economic, and social context of our world and our countries, and also to change it. This is what we are striving for as we prepare for the 2010 International Action and allow ourselves to dream, plan, and build actions that may seem daring to others.
But we know that it is possible. We are translating our Action Areas into a daily agenda. Our presence is felt as feminists in anti-globalization movement activities, in places as diverse as the Kurdish territory and Zimbabwe. In October, for example, we will join forces with demonstrations planned in defense of Mother Earth and against the commercialization of nature. In November, we will carry out debates and demonstrations to denounce violence against women, especially on the 25th November when we remember the assassination of the Mirabel sisters by the military dictatorship of the Dominican Republic. In December, we will be participating in the Klimaforum and demonstrations to denounce the false solutions to climate change, above all in Copenhagen.
In addition, during this period, we will dedicate time and reflection to the process of evaluating the work of the World March of Women from 2007 to 2009. We are halfway through our term as the International Secretariat in Brazil, and are on the eve of our 3rd International Action. We must pause and reflect on what we have learnt in order to define our strategic plans for the period that lies ahead.
Nurturing ourselves with poetry, we end with a verse written by our WMW sister in Chile, Mafalda Galdamez: “The time is not far off when the voices of protest will join together to form multitudes.”
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Highlights of this edition:
- Plans for the 2010 International Action are already well on their way...
- Honduras Special: Resisting the coup and demanding a Constituent Assembly
- II WMW Americas Meeting: Gaining strength, Consolidation and Solidarity
Click to read or download the October 2009 WMW Liaison Newsletter.
At the International Meeting in Lima in July 2006 we posed ourselves the challenge to organise ourselves as a movement to be reckoned with. This means having the strength to influence the increasingly complex political, economic, and social context of our world and our countries, and also to change it. This is what we are striving for as we prepare for the 2010 International Action and allow ourselves to dream, plan, and build actions that may seem daring to others.
But we know that it is possible. We are translating our Action Areas into a daily agenda. Our presence is felt as feminists in anti-globalization movement activities, in places as diverse as the Kurdish territory and Zimbabwe. In October, for example, we will join forces with demonstrations planned in defense of Mother Earth and against the commercialization of nature. In November, we will carry out debates and demonstrations to denounce violence against women, especially on the 25th November when we remember the assassination of the Mirabel sisters by the military dictatorship of the Dominican Republic. In December, we will be participating in the Klimaforum and demonstrations to denounce the false solutions to climate change, above all in Copenhagen.
In addition, during this period, we will dedicate time and reflection to the process of evaluating the work of the World March of Women from 2007 to 2009. We are halfway through our term as the International Secretariat in Brazil, and are on the eve of our 3rd International Action. We must pause and reflect on what we have learnt in order to define our strategic plans for the period that lies ahead.
Nurturing ourselves with poetry, we end with a verse written by our WMW sister in Chile, Mafalda Galdamez: “The time is not far off when the voices of protest will join together to form multitudes.”
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Highlights of this edition:
- Plans for the 2010 International Action are already well on their way...
- Honduras Special: Resisting the coup and demanding a Constituent Assembly
- II WMW Americas Meeting: Gaining strength, Consolidation and Solidarity
Click to read or download the October 2009 WMW Liaison Newsletter.
