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Only one month to go before the VII World March of Women International Meeting!
Under the slogan “Women on the March until we are All Free”, we are organising
our seventh International Meeting in Galicia, northwest Spain, from the 14th to
the 21st October of this year, on the 10th anniversary of the very first
International Meeting of the movement – held in Montreal from the 16th to the
18th October 1998. Now, as 10 years ago, the principal objective of the Meeting
will be the definition and organisation of our next Global Action: in 1998 the
first World March of Women Global Actions of 2000 were planned in the presence
of 145 women from 65 countries, while in 2008 we are expecting 150 participants
from around 45 countries to contribute to the preparation of our Global Action
of 2010…
As well as defining our next Global Action, the VII International Meeting will
be an occasion to formally approve our principal political directions, to
determine regional action plans, to discuss and monitor our four Action Areas,
to advance our political debates and deepen our knowledge around a number of
feminist themes (the commodification of women’s lives and bodies, the
right-wing offensive against women’s autonomy, etc), and to hold our General
Assembly. We will also be launching the new WMW book entitled “The World March
of Women: A Decade of International Feminist Struggle”, which examines the
March’s collective and international identity, retraces steps taken by the
movement through its key historical documents, and looks to the future while
considering current challenges.
As well as being responsible for the logistics of the Meeting (infrastructure,
interpreting equipment, transport, etc), the Galician NCB are working
incredibly hard in the preparation of the food sovereignty weekend – an
International Forum, a Food Sovereignty and Responsible Consumption Fair, a demonstration
and the creation of a milladoiro – open to other activists and the general
public in the territory / region. The objectives of these events are to advance
our discourse, promote a debate, and develop a feminist position in relation to
the theme of food sovereignty, while also denouncing the control of the food
production chain by transnational corporations and showing that local,
agroecological agriculture has the capacity to feed us all. In Galicia we want
to go further than solidarity and discourse, challenging ourselves to change
our daily practices with a view to strengthening alternatives to the free
market.
We look forward to seeing you in October, when we will unite under the WMW
banner, share experiences, strengthen ourselves as activists and remind the
world of our struggle: “Change the lives of women to change the world!”
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