Articulacion Feminista Marcosur
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> >Your voice, fundamental against fundamentalisms
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> >ArticulaCION Feminista Marcosur
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> >iii WORLD SOCIAL FOrum
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> >Porto Alegre, 23rd to 28th January 2003
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> >Electronic newsletter n. 1
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> >· Increasing feminist intervention in the
> World Social Forum
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> >· Feminist coalitions define thematic areas
> at the III WSF
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> >· Campaign Against Fundamentalisms at the
> WSF
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> >Womens testimonies against fundamentalisms
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> >WSF opening march: section against fundamentalisms
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> >Release of the 2002 Campaign book
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> >· More about the Articulacion Feminista
> Marcosur
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> >Increasing feminist intervention in the World
> Social Forum
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> >At each WSF edition, feminist movements coalitions
> and networks have been
> >increasing their intervention and participation.
> The Articulacion
> >Feminista Marcosur is a member of the WSF
> International Council, which is
> >responsible for the evaluation and building up of
> political guidelines.
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> > The following organizations are members of the
> International Council:
> > International Gender and Trade Network, Red
> Latinoamericana de Mujeres
> > Transformando la Economia, DAWN Network, Red
> Latinoamericana y Caribena
> > de Mujeres Negras, Red Mujer y Habitat, World
> Womens Network for
> > Reproductive Rights, REPEM and World March of
> Women.
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> > Since the first WSF the feminist coalitions have
> been struggling for
> > the economic and social justice and for the
> inclusion of the gender
> > justice in the forums agenda. In order to define
> a common position in
> > face of todays challenges, the feminist women
> have been discussing the
> > main issues concerning macroeconomics and
> macropolitics and debating the
> > globalization process.
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> >Feminist coalitions define thematic areas at the
> III WSF
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> >The International Council has defined five thematic
> areas at the 2003 WSF.
> >Each area is conceived as a catalyst of concerns,
> proposals and strategies
> >that are already being pursued by the organizations
> participating in the
> >WSF process. The five thematic areas at the III WSF
> are:
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> >· Democratic sustainable development;
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> >· Principles and values, human rights,
> diversity and equality;
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> >· Media, culture and counter-hegemony;
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> >· Political power, civil society and
> democracy;
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> >· Democratic world order, fight against
> militarism and promoting
> >peace.
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> > The Articulacion Feminista Marcosur is
> responsible for the thematic
> > area Political power, civil society and
> democracy. The World Women
> > March is responsible for the thematic area
> Principles and values, human
> > rights, diversity and equality.
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> >Campaign Against Fundamentalisms at the WSF
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> >Your voice, fundamental against fundamentalisms
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> >Launched in 2002 by the Articulacion Feminista
> Marcosur, the Campaign aims
> >at multiplying the voices against the
> discriminatory practices, discourses
> >and social representations.
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> > Whether religious, economic, scientific or
> cultural, the fundamentalism
> > is always political and flourishes in societies
> which deny human
> > diversity and legitimate violent mechanisms that
> subordinate one group to
> > another, one person to another.
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> > Essentially exclusionary and belligerent,
> fundamentalisms undermine the
> > building up of a project for humankind in which
> all people have the right
> > to have rights, by perversely sacrificing womens
> lives.
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> > From 23 to 28 January 2003, the Campaign Against
> Fundamentalisms will
> > be developing many activities at the III World
> Social Forum.
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> >Womens testimonies against fundamentalisms
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> >At the WSF, testimonies are talks by personalities
> who present examples of
> >lives and actions in defense of human liberty and
> dignity.
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> > The Campaign Against Fundamentalisms will be
> presenting, in partnership
> > with feminist networks and coalitions, five
> testimonies by women who have
> > been victims of different forms of
> fundamentalisms.
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> > These womens speeches will be presented along
> with the testimonies by
> > photographer Sebastião Salgado, actress Emma
> Thompson, and writer Susan
> > Sontag, among others.
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> >WSF Opening March: section against fundamentalisms
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> >A big allegorical car, six balloons and a gigantic
> mouth these are the
> >symbols of the Campaign Against Fundamentalisms at
> the III WSF opening
> >march, on 23 January, at 5 pm.
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> > All feminist and womens groups are invited to
> join the Campaign and
> > participate in the opening march by bringing
> banners, posters and
> > feminist slogans.
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> > Many feminist networks and coalitions that
> participate in the Campaign
> > Against Fundamentalisms have already confirmed
> their presence in the
> > opening march: Articulacion Feminista Marcosur,
> Campana 28 de Septiembre,
> > Campana por una Convencion Interamericana de los
> Derechos Sexuales y los
> > Derechos Reproductivos, Catolicas por el Derecho a
> Decidir, CFCH, Center
> > for Women's Global Leadership, CLADEM, Coalicion
> Internacional de Mujeres
> > por la Justicia Economica, DAWN, International Gay
> and Lesbian Human
> > Rights Commission, REPEM, Mujer y Habitat, Women
> Living under Muslim Laws
> > and Red de Salud de las Mujeres Latinoamericanas y
> del Caribe.
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> > Site of Concentration for the opening march: At
> 4 pm, the allegorical
> > car of the Campaign Against Fundamentalisms will
> be at the Largo Glenio
> > Peres, in front of the Municipal Public Market.
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> > The March will start at the Largo Glenio Peres
> and will end at the
> > Anfiteatro do Pôr-do-Sol.
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> >Release of the 2002 Campaign Book
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> >Centro Cultural Usina do Gasômetro, Teatro Elis
> Regina
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> >Av. Presidente João Goulart, 551, downtown
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> >On 25 January, at 7 pm
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> > The book of the 2002 Campaign Against
> Fundamentalisms and CD-ROM/Video,
> > which register the activities developed at the II
> WSF, will be released
> > during the 2003 WSF. The publication contains
> photos, texts presented in
> > the workshops and testimonies.
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> >More about the Articulacion Feminista Marcosur
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> >Construction
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> >The Articulacion Feminista Marcosur was established
> during the process of
> >evaluation of the World Conference on Women, also
> known as Beijing + 5.
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> > In 2002, many feminist organizations, coalitions
> and networks joined to
> > form the Articulacion Feminista Marcosur with
> basis on their long history
> > of joint work, accumulated experience and
> development of political tools.
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> > Organizations from Uruguay, Brazil, Chile,
> Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia
> > and Peru take part in the Articulacion.
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> >Objectives
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> >· To provide a strong political impact on
> the debate and
> >development of an integration to expand citizenship
> and democracy.
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> >· To strengthen the coalition of social
> movements and, in
> >particular, to reinforce the feminist presence in
> those areas. The
> >Articulacion is deeply concerned with the rising
> concentration of power
> >and wealth, which aggravates inequalities,
> exclusion and discrimination
> >and manifests itself severely in the religious,
> economic, cultural and
> >political fundamentalisms.
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> >· To consolidate the Articulacion Feminista
> Marcosur as an active
> >current of thought which aims to support the
> regional networking, with
> >basis on the national organizational processes, in
> order to enhance
> >womens political participation in the processes of
> integration and in the
> >defense of the economic, social and cultural
> rights.
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> >Information:
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> >Newsletter of the Articulacion Feminista Marcosur
> at the III World Social
> >Forum
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> >Produced by Carla Batista, Jacira Melo and Marisa
> Sanematsu.
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> >Supported by UNIFEM.
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