INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2012 DECLARATION
from the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance & World March of Women
GGJ is an alliance of many U.S. based social justice organizations, I have worked closely with this alliance in the past and I have great respect for their work. GGJ strives to build a U.S. grassroots base for social change that reverberates globally. They just published their declaration for International Women's Day 2012 and I thought I would share just a few lines, a link to the full declaration is below. -enei (NOT FOR GRADE)
"We stand in solidarity with women and peoples’ in resistance and in
struggle in all territories at war, under military control or the threat
of it, or who are experiencing the negative impacts of foreign military
presence. Despite these extreme situations, we women continue to defend
our territory, our bodies and land from the exploitation by official
and non-official, state and private, armies.
"We denounce the globalized mass media’s collective strategy that seeks to revitalize conservative dogmas and values and to put at risk the achievements and advances of women around the world. Spaces for participation are closed off, protest is criminalized, and the right to make decisions about our own bodies is undermined. Our reproductive self-determination is threatened in those places where we have already achieved it, such as in diverse North American and European (Portugal, Spain, etc.) countries, where abortion is legal, but where this right is undermined in practice by cuts in public budgets for hospitals and pregnancy interruption services. ....
"We stand in solidarity with all women who continue to struggle and confront the police, public services and the unjust justice system, as well as those who struggle against violence and its perpetrators.
"In the face of such situations, we are present in the streets, we create our alternatives, and we put them into practice. Once again, we demonstrate our resistance and our self-defense through our bodies and our territories. We strengthen our struggle for structural changes in our lives and we will continue on the march until we are all free!
"We call for the networking between our movements and the strengthening of alliances with other movements; for it is in this way that we will construct a free world.
Around the World, March 8 2012"
"We denounce the globalized mass media’s collective strategy that seeks to revitalize conservative dogmas and values and to put at risk the achievements and advances of women around the world. Spaces for participation are closed off, protest is criminalized, and the right to make decisions about our own bodies is undermined. Our reproductive self-determination is threatened in those places where we have already achieved it, such as in diverse North American and European (Portugal, Spain, etc.) countries, where abortion is legal, but where this right is undermined in practice by cuts in public budgets for hospitals and pregnancy interruption services. ....
"We stand in solidarity with all women who continue to struggle and confront the police, public services and the unjust justice system, as well as those who struggle against violence and its perpetrators.
"In the face of such situations, we are present in the streets, we create our alternatives, and we put them into practice. Once again, we demonstrate our resistance and our self-defense through our bodies and our territories. We strengthen our struggle for structural changes in our lives and we will continue on the march until we are all free!
"We call for the networking between our movements and the strengthening of alliances with other movements; for it is in this way that we will construct a free world.
Around the World, March 8 2012"
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