#8M2021 Against the Virus of Patriarchy and Capitalism, the Vaccine of Feminism and Solidarity!
by La Via Campesina
#8M2021 AGAINST THE VIRUS OF PATRIARCHY AND CAPITALISM, THE VACCINE OF
FEMINISM AND SOLIDARITY!
25 FEBRUARY 2021 CAMPAIGN TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN [1], PATRIACHY
[2], TRANSNATIONAL COMPANIES AND AGRIBUSINESS [3], WOMEN [4]
MARCH 8, 2021 – WORKING WOMEN'S DAY
(Harare: February 25, 2021) This March 8th 2021, organized in our
diversity and together with one single voice we declare: _Against the
Virus of Patriarchy and Capitalism, the Vaccine of Feminism and
Solidarity!,_ while highlighting the essential role of rural women and
peasants as a whole, who represent around 60% to 70% of world food
production and are the front line in the production of agroecological
and healthy food that sustains life. On the 25th anniversary of the
collective construction of Food Sovereignty, this is our tangible and
sustainable way to face the different crises we live today. We need to
end the systemic violence of capitalism and patriarchy, which today
violate the rights of women, diversities, children, and the working
class, even excluding them from public and free access to a vaccine,
which should be considered, as well as food, a human right, as we
advocate in our international call for the Right to Public and Free
Health for all populations!
In this world, the political, social and economic role of women is
vital, even more in the midst of this COVID pandemic, yet we continue
receiving lower wages, we are in the informal sector, we face precarious
employment, we are exploited, we are migrants, single mothers,
agricultural workers, fisherwomen, and shepherds. We have less access to
land, technology and public policies on health, protection against
violence, education and culture. The greatest obstacle we face in the
countryside is the lack of access to means of production such as the
land. In the market, women barely own 1% of the land and yet we face the
challenge of continuing to guarantee food and care for communities,
families and the world under conditions of political, economic and
social inequality.
That is why on this day we also demand that states implement the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural
Areas (UNDROP) [5]. It recognizes women and peasants as subjects of
rights. This UN Declaration is a strategic tool to strengthen the
struggles and proposals of rural movements. It also establishes
jurisprudence and an international legal perspective to guide
legislation and public policies at all institutional levels for the
benefit of those who feed the world.
The prevailing agro-business model is standardized by the economic power
of the agro-industry; it is the large multinational corporations that
control what will be produced, what we eat, how much and at what the
price; they lobby governments and even multilateral organizations, as we
have denounced is the case of the Food Summit organized by the FAO [6]
for this year with the objective to continue monopolizing the food
market even more. This dynamic generates high profits for corporations,
and very serious costs for the health of societies and the planet.
Throughout history, we women have been in the struggle as subjects of
transformation, mobilization and consciousness raising. Thus, as La Via
Campesina we salute all the movements and comrades who resist in India,
Colombia, Chile, Venezuela, Cuba, Kurdistan, Palestine, the Zapatistas,
the diverse women organized in the World March of Women and other allied
networks, who are actively participating in the changes that our
societies need, for justice and dignity for the majority of the people.
TAKE ACTION: This March 8, like every Working Women's Day, we call on
our member organizations, allies and friends to mobilise from all the
spaces where we are, in our communities, streets, public squares,
markets, schools and jobs, in defense of life, let us continue to
denounce and raise awareness, pushing states to commit to the historic
struggles of working class rural and urban women.
AGAINST THE VIRUS OF PATRIARCHY AND CAPITALISM, THE VACCINE OF FEMINISM
AND SOLIDARITY!
Send your press releases, photos, videos to lvcweb(a)viacampesina.org [7]
Reproduce and share our materials! To download the official 2021 poster
and social media materials, click here [8].
Follow us on social media with the hashtags: #8M2021 #WOMENINTHESTRUGGLE
#FOODSOVEREIGNTYNOW
Links:
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[1]
https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-against/patriachy/campai...
[2] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-against/patriachy/
[3]
https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-against/transnational-co...
[4] https://viacampesina.org/en/who-are-we/women/
[5]
https://viacampesina.org/en/united-nations-declaration-on-the-rights-of-p...
[6]
https://viacampesina.org/en/position-paper-a-summit-under-siege-corporate...
[7]
https://viacampesina.org/en/8m2021-against-the-virus-of-patriarchy-and-ca...
[8] https://cloud.viacampesina.org/s/2wbeJ3cc3mBcBQp
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