Dear members and supporters,
This year, we brought 80 grassroots feminists to our Berta Cáceres International Feminist Organizing School (IFOS) Facilitators School in Siguatepeque, Honduras, developed in collaboration between GGJ and La Jornada Continental. This school trained the next cohort of IFOS practitioners in how to teach our decolonial feminist popular education model and organize more schools around the world.
Participants delved into our curriculum shaped by the feminist practice of senti-pensar. This practice grounds our political reflections about our experiences by integrating feelings along with thinking. Together, we expanded our collective understanding of a life-sustaining feminist economy as an alternative to destructive patriarchal and capitalist systems.
The school strengthened alliances across our diverse sectors in the Americas and beyond, from food sovereignty to trade unions, migrant justice, and more. GGJ members and U.S.-based national allies such as Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) and Right to the City Alliance (RTTC) attended.
Internationally, representatives included Alba Movements, Friends of the Earth-Latin America and Caribbean region (ATALC), Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC-La Via Campesina Americas region), the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA-CSA), Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAR), Peasant Movement of Papaye-Haiti (MPP), World March of Women of the Americas, and the Quilombola Movement of Maranhão (MOQUIBOM).
Internationalist spaces like our IFOS illuminate the growing need for strategic coordination across grassroots movements. As authoritarianism and fascism proliferate across the globe, feminist organizers are increasingly facing isolation and persecution.
The IFOS creates a space to share our experiences, sharpen our analysis, hone a collective global vision for a sustainable, feminist economy, and empower each other to continue fighting for our liberation. To date, our IFOS has trained more than 370 people from 38 countries.
Check out some of our participants from this year’s school! |