Newsletter Nº 2-  October 2018

Editorial

Already getting closer to the XI International Meeting of the WMM, the delegations of the Americas are envisaging the end of a long road full of challenges, struggles and dreams.
The work of the region has been done through virtual encounters, drawing from meetings in other areas of articulation, and taking time out of their very demanding national agendas to get to Bilbao.
In the baggage of the delegations from the Americas there are not only personal items, but also the voices of thousands who have decided to march until we are all free.
The editorial of the Second Bulletin of the Americas has been focused to sharing some of the expectations and proposals with which the Americas join the XI International Meeting.
The Americas come to the XI International Meeting with their experiences of resistance and mobilization to confront neoliberalism, conservatism and hatred.We would like to discuss the global context and the extractivist model and how it affects the lives of women and share with all the collective creation of global actions against patriarchy, fundamentalism and transnational, neoliberal, racist, misogynous and lesbophobic capital.

We will denounce imperialism, the economic and financial blockades that are applied to countries that decide to try other models of political organization.

We will share our struggles for Legal Abortion and against sexist violence. Our sustained experience in the defense of the land body territory, within the framework of caring for the web of life for good living, without subjection. And our various forms of resistance to the neoliberal onslaught that vainly tries to push back the popular gains that during the first decade of the 21st century, the progressive decade we have had.
Our proposals are from the anti-system feminist struggle that acts to dismantle heteropatriarchal, racist and colonial capitalism. From our collective strength as women we get involved in the processes of alliance with movements and actions to build a model in which the center is the sustainability of life.
In the Americas we hope that the XI International Meeting will be a space to deepen our articulation, our solidarity and to organize our common agendas for the V International Action of the March of Women

The Americas in March until we are all free.

Venezuela

Every 28th Our Rights.

La Araña Feminista - MMM Venezuela in articulation with other Feminist organizations such as the Left Cultural Front and RIAS promotes since February 2018 the activity “Every 28th for Our Rights” a permanent appointment for the legalization of abortion in the country.
With the demonstrations carried out monthly in front of the National Constituent Assembly building we seek the declaration of the Venezuelan state as secular, the recognition of women´s right to decide on their bodies and the duty of the state to guarantee that motherhood is absolutely voluntary, which implies legal abortions and in conditions that protect the life and health of women.
Our feminist proposals are being considered for a chapter on Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights in the next Venezuelan constitution, but also got a right to speak before the Commission of Women and Gender Equity and the promise of a right of speech before the plenary session of the National Constituent Assembly, which has not yet happened.

We joined the Green wave
​on August 8th

In the city of Caracas and in the Venezuelan social networks we supported the legalization of abortion in Argentina. We seized the opportunity to hold information meetings on legal abortion actions in Venezuela and to recognize that the feminist struggles are continental.

Video Conference with Graça Samo

In coordination with the Ministry of Foreign affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a video conference was organized with Graça Samo, which included representatives of Venezuelan women's and feminist organizations.
The virtual meeting was held within the framework of state policy to provide the means to strengthen the bonds of solidarity among peoples. Graça explained to the representatives of the MMM organizations their objectives and organizational form for the fight against neoliberalism. There was also the opportunity to exchange views on the common realities between Africa and Venezuela and a first outline of activities that could be carried out between Mozambique and Venezuela. An internationalist brigade of Venezuelan women who carried out exchange cultural, economic and peasant activities was proposed.