In the spider’s web. Violence against children and the struggle of protective mothers. Prologue.
I This book that you are holding in your hands is the history and present of a struggle that begins the day that your life explodes into a thousand pieces. Your children’s life has already done so, but yours implodes in the moment that you become aware of it. The day that your child reveals to you that their father touches them down there or the doctors explain the cause of that [...]
The reinvention of the strike: 10 years of feminist uprising in Argentina
by Verónica Gago First published in Ojalá 1. This year, the cycle of protests known as Ni Una Menos in Argentina will turn 10. The first march under that banner took place June 3, 2015. Then came the strikes and demonstrations: first the Women’s Strike on October 19, 2016, then came the transnational and transfeminist mobilizations, which began on March 8, 2017. The green tide—so named for the green handkerchiefs worn [...]
Fatima Ouassak on the power of mothers
Fatima Ouassak, by Marie Rouge by Marta Malo and Verónica Gago. Translated by Anouk Devillé First published in Ojalá The family is a concept that the far right has attempted to monopolize, and the idea of the “mother” is a central part of that dispute. We’re witnessing a coordinated offensive against politicized, feminist, and anti-racist maternities with deep social roots, among which the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in [...]
Building self-defence is building self-government. Taking back the power stolen from us
Helena Silvestre (São Paulo) Sometimes I think that any Black man, like me, Just wants his own piece of land in the hills. No bling, barefoot, swimming in the stream, no hunger, picking fruit from the tree. Bro, that's what I think and that too is my dream, but in São Paulo God is a hundred- dollar bill. Racionais MC's (2002): "Vida loka, parte 2", on the album Nada como un día [...]
Infamy is Free Media and Judicial Criminalization in Infancia Libre Case
Introduction As long as you are friendly, men protect you. The minute you stop, the battle starts. Mary Karr In the midst of the politically turbulent spring of 2019, four women were arrested. Recounted with a dramatic flair, their stories filled many minutes of news, talk show, and current affairs programming on television, the radio, and all the mainstream media for months. The subjects—four women who had reported sexual violence that their [...]
Riders on the storm. Delivery Platform Workers Fight Back. (Chapter 1, second part)
1. Falling into the delivery platform trap. By Nuria Soto This text will be published in two parts, this is the second part. The algorithm as boss Given my previous experience in other jobs, joining Deliveroo intrigued and attracted me. I could make my own way around the city, without a boss to watch over me, give me directions or admonish me about my work performance. To understand why that image soon [...]
Riders on the Storm. Delivery Platform Workers Fight Back. (Chapter 1, first part)
1. Falling into the delivery platform trap. By Nuria Soto This text will be published in two parts, this is the first part. The arrival of delivery platforms in Spain around 2015 was a new and in fact attractive phenomenon for many of us who started working at that time.1 Glovo was officially launched in March 2015 in Barcelona, and the UK’s Deliveroo landed in Spain in November of the same year. [...]
Let’s open the gates. The fight of women labourers in Huelva for a different model of agriculture (Extract)
VIII Water and Land are Worth More than (Red) Gold¹ By Ana Pinto and Nazaret Castro By now, it has probably become clear that the prevailing agricultural model in Huelva - that of industrial and intensive red fruit farming using plastics and agrochemicals - shares more similarities with mining than with traditional agriculture. It is an extractive way of using the land. Fertility is extracted in the same way as minerals [...]
Until the Patriarchy Falls and There Are No More Evictions. Chapters 3 to 6
Here you'll find chapters 3 to 6 of "Until the Patriarchy Falls and There Are No More Evictions. Debt, Housing and Patriarchal Violence", written by Myrian Espinoza Minda and Lotta Meri Pirita Tenhunen in dialogue with PAH Vallekas' Women's Group, illustrated by Coco Guzmán and now translated by Liz Mason-Deese. The research and writing process of the booklet were funded by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Madrid Liaison Office and the Foundation for Arts Initiatives. [...]
Bio-syndicalism from the Domestic Territories. An Introductory Selection
Here you'll find an introductory selection of the five main chapters of "Bio-syndicalism from the Domestic Territories. Our Reclaims and Our Ways of Doing", written by Rafaela Pimentel Lara, Costanza Cisneros Sánchez, Amalia Caballero Richard and Ana Rojo Delgado in dialogue with Territorio Doméstico, illustrated by Ana Peñas and now translated by Liz Mason-Deese. The research and writing process of the booklet were funded by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Madrid Liaison Office and the [...]