[español abajo] Today, we woke up rebellious. Let’s shake the bedsheets and plant our feet firmly on the ground. The heart that had seemed about to burst has just EXPLODED! - Poem by Central American survivors of gendered violence, performed by Sandra Moran Thank you for joining us in a powerful and reverberating international solidarity call - Shaping Change Together Beyond Recovery, Beyond Borders. Our international family from Brazil, Canada First Nations, South Korea and Iran shared with us about the shifting conditions of their organizing terrains in the face of the COVID19 pandemic. One thing is clear: what last year may have seemed politically impossible must now become politically inevitable. Listen to the recording of the call.
Follow the speakers & support their organizations & work: 1. Sussan Tahmasebi - FEMENA, Mena region, Iran. Sussan currently serves as the Executive Director of FEMENA, an organization supporting women human rights defenders, their organizations and feminist movements in North Africa and West Asia. She co-founded the Iran Civil Society Training and Research Center and the One Million Signatures Campaign, a grassroots effort working to end gender-biased laws in Iran.
2. Ana Cha - Landless Workers Movements, MST Brazil.
Ana is a member of the national coordination of MST-Landless Rural Workers Movement focused on cultural and political education. MST is a Brazilian mass social movement that struggles for land, people’s agrarian reform and social transformation. 3. Dae-Han Song - International Strategy Center, South Korea Dae-Han Song is in charge of the Contents Team at the International Strategy Center. The purpose of the International Strategy Center is to stimulate, inspire, and facilitate the exchange
of ideas, solidarity, experiments, lessons of social movements in South Korea and abroad. 4. Dr. Priscilla Settee - Cumberland House Swampy Cree First Nations, Indigenous Environmental Network, North America. Dr. Priscilla Settee is a member of Cumberland House Swampy Cree First Nations and a Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba. She is a former National Council member of the Indigenous Environmental Network and is the author and editor of several books. “Sanctions kill people slowly. Not only will people die of coronavirus but also from a lack of medicine and food. Today, as part of our internationalist commitment, we say that we must end sanctions from Iran to Cuba and Venezuela.” Cindy Wiesner, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
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