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Missing Women : Decolonization, Third Wave Feminisms and Indigenous People of Canada and Mexico (America South & North)
Friday 1 August 2008
From the northern border city of Juárez, Chihuahua to the west and east coasts of Canada, Indigenous girls and women are at far higher risk to be kidnapped, sexually abused or raped, and murdered. It is quite unusual for ResistingWomen.Net to announce conferences. This one needs special focus and support. It will take place in Canada August 14-17 2008. > continue
BRAZIL / RURAL STRUGGLES
Farmers repression in Rio Grande do Sul: Solidarity with the women defending life and biodiversity (America South & North)
Monday 10 March 2008
by Via Campesina
On March 4th, around 900 women of Via Campesina Rio Grande do Sul occupied the 2.100 hectares “Fazenda Tarumã” in Rosário do Sul. This action was taking place among other activities organised for the International Women Day on the 8th of March. The police violently attacked the peaceful gathering, injuring badly as many as 50 women. > continue
CANADA / NATIVE WOMEN
Press release : Native Women’s Association of Canada disappointed with Pickton verdict (America South & North)
Tuesday 22 January 2008
by AFAC
In this 9th December 2007 press release, the Native Women’s Association of Canada comments the verdict issued after an important trial concerning a serial killer of native women. NWAC contributes to open the difficult debate about specific discriminations towards native Canadians, and more specifically native women, who are targetted and harrassed in sexist and racist ways. > continue
The "Women’s Pacific Road" against civil war : March for the "Violence against Women" International Day (Colombia) (America South & North)
Sunday 16 December 2007
by Topics & Roses
Despite high media coverage, Ingrid Betancourt is not the only victim of civil war in Colombia. War disappearances concern NGO leaders, journalists, trade-unionists, law officers, and active citizens that are involved in their country’s democracy. Paramilitaries are responsible for more than ten years of massacres. Despite their official demobilisation, they go on with killing and terrorizing. Some spectacular cases showing links between army, political personalities and paramilitaries are now being trialed. The guerilla is also responsible for war crimes, but in comparatively less big dimensions. In this violent context, rape has become a war weapon, denounced by La Ruta Pacifica, "The Women’s Pacific Road", which is a women’s movement that constitutes a significant part of Colombian civil society’s increasing opposition to the bloody conflict between State and armed fractions. La Ruta Pacifica does a conscientisation and lobbying work on war’s real damages, especially those concerning women, and on the importance of women’s participation to peace negociations in application of UN Security Council resolution 13-45. It organises also marches to conflict areas in order to support women trapped there by violence and to alert on their situation, at last to say NO to conflict. > continue
“Reasonable Accommodation”: A Feminist Response (Quebec) (America South & North)
Wednesday 5 December 2007
by Institut Simone de Beauvoir, Université Concordia, Québec
As anti-racist, anti-colonial feminists in Québec, we have serious misgivings about the Commission de Consultation sur les pratiques d’accommodement reliées aux différences culturelles. The Conseil du statut de la femme du Québec (CSF) has proposed that the Québec Charter be changed so as to accord (...) > continue
Mexico/Chiapas : December 2007, convoking the 3rd Encuentro of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World, Topic "Comandanta Ramona and the women Zapatistas" (America South & North)
Friday 26 October 2007
by Compañera Zapatista Everilda
This is the English translation of Compañera Everilda’s words convoking the 3rd Encuentro of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World, on topic "Comandanta Ramona and the women Zapatistas", followed by the link to the movie in memory of Comandanta Ramona, who died 2006 as she was 47. > continue
Female Clowns fighting right-wing extremists in Knoxville (USA) (America South & North)
Friday 7 September 2007
In May 2007 in Knoxville (USA), a ARA (Anti Racist Action) clown block has disturbed a VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK rally. Maybe the most sublime and funniest, non violent, antiracist and feminist action you have ever read about! Have a look? > continue
Mexico / US border
Feminicides in Central America and Mexico: MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION (America South & North)
Wednesday 11 July 2007
by European Parliament Parlement Européen Europäisches Parliament Parlamento Europeo
This is the highly interesting DRAFT REPORT on the murders of women (feminicides) in Central America and Mexico and the role of the European Union in fighting this phenomenon, produced by the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (PROVISIONAL, 2007/2025(INI) 10.5.2007, Rapporteur: Raül (...) > continue
VIRGEN DE LOS DESEOS (BOLIVIA)... We are (only) an agitation to facilitate the work stoppage (America South & North)
Saturday 14 April 2007
by Florentina Alegre, Mujeres Creando - Virgen de los Deseos
From the perspective of an autonomous aymara feminist, having been in this area for a little over three weeks.(Social Movement of Women WOMEN CREATING, Virgen de los Deseos). > continue
