Advances for the first International, Political, Artistic, Sports and Cultural Meeting of Women who fight
Before Monday is over we’d like to share our #matriarchmonday publication. Standing on #Diné territory in my #Zapatista made boots, I sing the praises of the women of #EZLN! Earlier this year we traveled to the Caracol de Morelia to hand deliver funds for this gathering. To see this gathering come to life is so empowering! The Zapatista community and their principles are not only fierce and disciplined but autonomous. Like most #indigenous communities it is women led.
To the women of Mexico and the World:
To the original women of Mexico and the World:
To the women of the Indigenous Governing Council:
To the women of the National #Indigenous Congress:
To the women of the national and international Sixth:
Compañeras, sisters:
We greet you with respect and affection as the women that we are—women who struggle, resist, and rebel against the chauvinist and patriarchal state.
We know well that the bad system not only exploits, represses, robs, and disrespects us as human beings, but that it exploits, represses, robs, and disrespects us all over again as women.
And we know that things are now worse, because now all over the world we are being murdered. And there is no cost to the murderers—the real murderer is always the system behind a man’s face—because they are covered up for, protected, and even rewarded by the police, the courts, the media, the bad governments, and all those above who maintain their position on the backs of our suffering.
Yet we are not fearful, or if we are we control our fear, and we do not give in, we don’t give up, and we don’t sell out.
So if you are a woman in struggle who is against what is being done to us as women; if you are not scared (or you are, but you control your fear), then we invite you to gather with us, to speak to us and listen to us as the women we are.
Thus we invite all rebellious women around the world to:
The First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for Women in Struggle
To be held at the Caracol of Morelia, Tzotz Choj zone of #Chiapas, Mexico, March 8, 9, and 10, 2018. Arrival will be March 7 and departure on March 11.
If you are a man, you are listening or reading this in vain because you aren’t invited.
Compañeras, we want to share with you how the registration for the Meeting is going to take place on March 8, 9 and 10 at the Caracol de Morelia, Tzotz Choj area, Chiapas, Mexico.
In what we have advanced of the mail there are 651 people registered, with ages ranging from 5 months to 75 years. 38 compañeras come with their crí @ s.
The places of the world from which they come are Germany, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spanish State, United States, France, Greece, Guatemala , Honduras, England, Italy, Mapuche Nation, Cree and Ojibwa Nation, Navajo Nation, Sweden, Nicaragua, Basque Country, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela, and 27 states of Mexico.
In the political, artistic and sports participation there are 202 proposals that cover the disciplines of music, dance, theater, circus, clown, poetry, storytelling, book presentations, drawing, photography, film, football and volleyball. There are also workshops and talks with the following themes:
Workshops- Gender violence, yoga for children, stencil, genetic clay, feminist manifestos, cooperative games, valuation and use of menstrual blood, gender, theater, dance and painting as a means of healing, sensitization, agroecology, corrective violations, cloth towels, production of personal hygiene items, decolonizing the hips, workshop on the body and creative resistances, muralism workshop, feminism of women of color, deconstructing genres, cyberfeminism, body work, self-massage workshop, reiki, abstract art- figurative, free writing, engraving, painting, creation of books from own experiences, abortion, bioconstruction, dance therapy, macrobiotic cooking, printmaking, humor and gender, aroma touch, reflexology.
Pláticas- Female lineage, women's body, forms of resistance, defense of human rights and promotion of culture, anti-Machado education, experience of survivor of violence, women's struggle in France and Italy, abortion, menstruation and deconstruction of the use of roles, femicides, experience of struggle of the Mapuche people, sexism in the media, lesbian existence in times of patriarchy, feminism in Cuba, romantic love and the eroticization of gender violence, sexual violence in the Colombian armed conflict , violence against women, racism, anti-mining struggle, ecofeminism, indigenous and black feminisms, feminist economics and sustainability, feminist human security.
There are still many emails to process, we appreciate your patience, we will answer them.
On the other hand, we want to inform you that the deadline for registration as participants is Sunday, February 9 inclusive. This to be able to organize the programming of their participations.
The limit to register as assistants will be on March 8 inclusive. From March 7 there will be registration at the Caracol de Morelia.
The mail for the registration is: encontratromujeresqueluchan@ezln.org.mx
Support team for the First International, Political, Artistic, Sports and Cultural Encounter of Women who Fight.
http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2018/01/25/avances-para-el-primer-encuentro-internacional-politico-artistico-deportivo-y-cultural-de-mujeres-que-luchan/