Ecofeminist days
saralotta - 26.11.2001 13:49
ECOFEMINIST DAYS FOR AN ALTERNATIVE TO CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY
Een week voor de protesten tegen de EU top, vinden in Brussel de Ecofeminist days plaats waarin tijd en ruimte gemaakt wordt om de link tussen kapitalistische globalisering en patriachaat duidelijk te maken. Een antwoord op de weerstand om de feministische en anti-seksistische strijd au serieux te nemen in het globale verzet tegen neoliberale globalisering!!
ECOFEMINIST DAYS
FOR AN ALTERNATIVE TO CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY
Brussels, December 7-8-9, 2001
WHY DO WE ORGANISE THESE DAYS?
Last year, hundreds of thousands of women world-wide answered the call of Canadian grassroots activists in Quebec to organise in 2000 the World March of women against poverty and violence against women. There, they all denounced globalisation which only increases this poverty and violence and highlighted the very strong link between patriarchy, capitalism and globalisation. Their voice and their vision of the world are once again occulted by the media and the majority of the anti-globalisation movements.
We want to unable the particular voice of women to be heard in the anti-globalisation movement which largely ignores the issue of gender, track down there any sexism, reinvest the whole political and social field to redynamise the struggle in the light of our analyses.
The anti-globalisation movement presents another serious deficiency. If one can support most demands of this movement, such as for example the abolition of the debt of the Third World, we have to note that they are generally framed from within the capitalist patriarchal system which is quite capable of absorbing it.
We want to imagine another future that would not endanger the future of coming generations and at last to open the debate on possible alternative to neoliberalism and capitalist patriarchy. We take as starting point of our ideas ecofeminism, a contraction of ecology and feminism, and amongst its different "schools" of thought, that of the "German school" which could be said also the contraction of economy. It is one of the rare political theories to present today a real alternative called "the subsistence perspective" which can thus serve as starting point to discussions.
The repression of neo-liberal anti-globalisation demonstrations and measures planned to fight terrorism after the 11 September disaster is a good example of how far States have lost their power to transnational companies, so that our democracy is becoming more and more virtual. Democratic elected governments rule in favour of those internationalised companies and against their own people.
We want to stress that alternative to neoliberal and capitalist patriarchy must rest on democratic principles which are not necessarily those of representative democracy.
WHO ARE WE?
The Women-Alternatives Resistance (FAR – Femmes-Alternatives-Resistances) collective was set up to organise the ?ECOFEMINIST DAYS FOR AN ALTERNATIVE TO CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY? within the programme of events planned by the movements against the neo-liberal globalisation during the Belgian Presidency of the European Union.
We work in collaboration with two NGOs : Association 29 rue Blanche, "Mouvements de femmes" and " Le monde selon les Femmes"
Programme
Friday 7 December
1.00 – 5.00 pm
International plenary session
VLEKHO, Auditorium 056, rue Royale 336 B-1210 Brussels
Economy, Ecology, Politics : Feminist Alternatives – What alternative for your region ?
Ursula Oswald (Diverse Women for Diversity), Mexico
Sonja Prodanovic: (Ecourban workshop –Eco Femme Forum), Yugoslavia
Vandana Shiva: (Diverse Women for Diversity), India
Sonja Zilles: (ecofeminist), Germany
Danielle Magloire, Researcher, Haïti
Fadia Dabes Murad, Doctorante, Palestine Water Authority
A speaker from Africa
6.00–12.00 pm
Registration - Welcome/ Meal/ Film
Association 29 rue Blanche "Mouvements de femmes", , rue Blanche 29, 1060 Brussels.
8.30 pm Video/documentary on Marilyn Waring, and discussion
"If Women counted"
Saturday 8 December
10.00 am–1.00 pm Workshops
Association 29 rue Blanche "Mouvements de femmes", , rue Blanche 29, 1060 Brussels.
10.00 am – 10.30 pm
Introduction to workshops by the workshops leaders
10.30am – 1.00pm:
Workshops
1. Francine Mestrum (Doctor in economics): Women´s poverty et mystifying discourse by the World bank, the IMF and the WTO. (Belgium)
2. Julienne Nzugu (a she-fighter amongst others): ´Ecoféminism" by Maria Mies and Vandana
Shiva. (Belgium)
3. Ursula Oswald (Diverse Women for Diversity): Food sovereignty. (Mexico)
4. Hilkka Piëtila: (ecofeminist): The basics of the feminist ecological economics and resistance against the globalizing totalitarian capitalism (Finland)
5. Sonja Prodanovic: (Ecourban workshop –Eco Femme Forum) Non-violent resolution of conflits (Yugoslavia).
6. Isabelle Stengers: (recalcitrant philosopher) Spirituality and Politics (Belgium).
7. cancelled
8. Sonja Zilles (ecofeminist) The Subsistence Perspective (Germany).
9. Anne Martynow Remiche (DUNIA programme) to be confirmed
Women?s resistance in the South (Belgium)
1.00-2.30pm: Lunch
2.30-4.00pm: Workshops Reports
4.00 - 6.30pm: Aternative experimental agora
To bring an end to passive political consuming. Give the floor and the initiative to participants who also have something to say or to achieve.
6.30 – 8.30pm: Dinner
8.30: Women celebrate
Musical performance : Pascaille on an anonymous poem in Seattle, Fanny Iran. Voice, flute, harp and piano.
Sunday 9 December
9.00-10.00 am Breakfast
10.00am –13.00pm: Discussions and political statement
This event has received the support of The Communauté française de Belgique and the NGO Forum
INFO
Registration: We are all voluntary organisers, so help us by sending the form below no later than 01/12/01, with your payment (between 150 FB and 500 FB – lunch on 8/12 incl. – according to your possibilities), to the following account: 068-2027718-57 Association 29 rue Blanche ?Mouvement de femmes? avec la mention ?Ecoféminisme?.
Addresses:
Vlekho, Auditorium 056, rue Royale, 336, B-1210 Brussels
Association 29 rue Blanche, "Mouvements de femmes", 29 rue Blanche, 1060 Brussels
Languages: French-Engllish, with interpretation EN-FR-EN on 07/10 and (to be confirmed) on 09/12 by voluntary persons.
Contacts:
By post: Edith Rubinstein, 70 Square des Latins, B-1050.Brussels
Tel/Fax: Marie-Françoise Stewart: 32.2.646.45.35.
Email:  ecofeminisme@tiscalinet.be
 http://home.tiscalinet/ecofeminisme (soon to be operative)
Registration form
Please send this form back by :
- post to "Ecofeminist days" c/o Edith Rubinstein, 70 Square des Latins, B-1050. Brussels
- fax to: Marie-Françoise Stewart: 32.2.646.45.35.
- Email to: ecofeminisme@tiscalinet.be
I wish to participate to the "Ecofeminist Days for alternatives to capitalist patriarchy" who will take place in Brussels December 7-8-9, 2001.
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to the following account: 068-2027718-57 Association 29 rue Blanche ?Mouvement de femmes? avec la mention ?Ecoféminisme?.
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