Online Events

The Politics of Prisons: Women's Critiques and Alternatives (2020)

Around the world, prison systems rely on systems and structures that oppress and subjugate groups of people for the purpose of exploitation and social control. Prisons are a site of struggle for many social movements, which believe in approaches to justice and social peace beyond authoritarianism, surveillance and violence.

Why do prison struggles matter to women? What could prison abolition look like from a feminist perspective? 

The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Litmus Test of Capitalist Modernity (2020)

The global pandemic has exposed the state and capitalism as inherently anti-society. How have states across the world used the pandemic as an opportunity for more power and war? How has this affected communities, particularly women and what do they have to say about the future?

Women's Revolution as an Antidote to Capitalism (2020)

More and more women’s movements, organizations and activists are raising the question of women’s internationalism as a way to strengthen the global women’s liberation struggle, fight together against all forms of patriarchy and build radical alliances. The importance of women's organization created new reflections, mostly in the theoretical field. However, this session takes us into the concrete daily solutions and answers of movements. We discuss how the women's revolution needs common strategies to create a shared front beyond the colonial patriarchy, through the production of other social values coming from people and from the self-organization of women at the transnational level. 

Encuentro "Revolución en Construcción: Tejiendo Futuro" (2020) 

Una serie de rondas de diálogo que surgirán a partir del intercambio de diferentes experiencias de lucha que vamos construyendo desde el Abya Yala hasta el Kurdistán y como continuación de la Primera Conferencia “Revolución en Construcción” realizada en Frankfurt en el 2018, y que dio origen a la “Red de Mujeres que Tejen Futuro”.

What the Coronavirus Pandemic has shown us (2020)

Many people have pointed out that the Covid-19 pandemic exposed and further aggravated existing global injustices.

For many states, the pandemic became an opportunity to crack down on rights and liberties. Notably, governments often resorted to militarisric language and psychological intimidation tactics to assert control over populations, instead of ensuring equal access to services. In some cases, states started entire military operations in the midst of the pandemic. Women, indigenous peoples, and communities under war and occupation have been among those most affected by the global health crisis. At the same time, the pandemic was a time of organization and struggle. Against states and corporations that exploit the health crisis for power and profit, people have responded with calls for mutual aid, solidarity and resistance for social justice.

In this panel, activists reflect on how states have responded to the crisis and how communities and social movements have organized themselves for resilience and survival.