Dear friends and compañeres, I’d like to update you today on the powerful, inspiring, and transnational work of GGJ's Berta Cáceres International Feminist Organizing School (IFOS). We just concluded our first in-person IFOS with the compañeres of the Continental Alliance of Americas for Democracy and Against Neoliberalism (La Jornada Continental) at the Ecosol Training Center of the Red Comal Solidarity Economy Network in Siguatepeque, Honduras. We arrived from all regions of the Americas: 103 participants in 13 delegations from 22 countries and territories, a panoply of colorful threads weaving in harmony to form a beautiful fabric. Our participants were intergenerational, mulitracial, multilingual, multigender, multisectoral, and representing different political tendencies, from
campesina struggles to trade unionists to feminists fighting for reproductive justice. For six days, we broke bread (by eating a lot of tortillas) and discussed our diverse grassroots feminist movements. We debated, learned and unlearned, danced, and laughed and cried from the joy of being together and being able to share our past and present struggles. |