What will happen in 2005 in the Philippines?
"In the
We plan to have a symbolic launching of the Charter on March 8th, together with what’s happening in
This
coming March 5th, through the values of the Charter, we hope to bring
together these women’s organizations into a single base action if it’s
possible, at least in the center, in
We also brought the idea of the Charter and of other activities to other networks with whom we are working. There
are 28 organizations members of KK and each of these organizations is
involved in different networks. Particularly, we brought it up to the
Women’s Committee of the Freedom From Debt Coalition,
a coalition that is very much involved in the World Social Forum and
actually because of this, they have planned to organize a women’s march
against poverty and globalization. Not only KK but more organizations
are joining. They are committed to be with us on March 8th for the
symbolic launching but they will also participate in other actions in
and around June. We will try our best to have those activities combined
in July so that we could receive the relay in the
And
then we will also make some kind of arrangement with a big network
called Earth Day’s Network which usually has a big activity every April
22nd, on Earth Day. They plan to make a back-to-back
activity : they will be joining us for the March 8th launching of the
Charter and we will be joining them for the April 22nd activity so the
slant of the Earth Day activities will be women environment.
Aside from that, we will have solidarity actions on October 17th. Traditionally in the
Why is the Charter important for you ?
I
think the Charter is important for us because it lays down the values
that we, as feminists, hold dear to us and it is a very symbolic
document that by... with other feminist organizations of all the world
- because the March is in 163 countries and is linking up with
5 500 organizations - so in our little way our participation in
the formulation of the Charter, and coming here to the meeting in
Rwanda to have it adopted, we feel solidarity with other women
organizations.
How
are you going to use the Charter. I mean are there some values that
seems more important to you or related to the fights you have now in
the
Actually,
what we initially planned, was to have a forum about the connections of
the Charter with other international instruments. We would discuss of
the interfacing of different international documents like the
With
the fact of one value having more importance than the others I think
that all are of equal importance. In KK, some of us are in environment,
others are into trafficking, others into food security, some of us in
housing, some of us are in lesbian and gay rights, so they are all of
equal importance to us because each of us is working on important
themes.”
Interview of Jing from KK realized in
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