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Women Mobilisations against War in Gaza
lundi 5 janvier 2009
par Topics & Roses
A quick overview of some eclectic material gathered here and there : A List of Gaza Women Organisations, A female testimony from Gaza in the UK press, A testimony by the feminist ecowarrior Starhawk, a Statement by Israeli Women’s Organizations (04/01/09), a youtube video about a protest in Canada by Jewish women. > suite
Ghaza / Massive Attack by Israel / Protest
Call for an immediate cessation of the aggression by the Israeli military forces in Gaza
dimanche 28 décembre 2008
par IWC - International Women’s Commission
The International Women’s Commission (IWC) for a Just and Sustainable Palestinian-Israeli Peace demands an immediate cessation of the aggression by the Israeli military forces in Gaza, which has already cost hundreds of lives.
This slaughter can only further fuel the conflict and quash any (...) > suite
Morocco / Unionizing Call Centers
Spotlight interview with Laïla Nassimi (Morocco - CDT)
samedi 9 août 2008
par ITUC CSI
Brussels, 30 July 2008 (ITUC OnLine) : The number of call centres in Morocco is constantly on the rise. The young, qualified workers they employ face high levels of stress and contempt for their cultural identity. Speaking out against the investors exploiting the flaws in Morocco’s labour legislation, Laïla Nassimi wants to see more contact between trade unions around the world and appeals for international solidarity in the fight for decent work in the globalised call centre industry. > suite
Women in social movements in Egypt
Strikes in Egypt : Female Workers on the Frontline
jeudi 24 juillet 2008
par BabelMed, Eman S. Morsi
Factories in Egypt are now a battle front for the workers’ rights movement that began in December 2006 when the Mahallah Al Kobra textile workers held a demonstration that reached an unprecedented number of 10, 000 demonstrators and launched what experts labeled as the biggest wave of strikes in the country since the 1940s. > suite
Palestine / Portrait
A Profile of Palestinian Women’s Political Participation within the Hamas Party
jeudi 17 juillet 2008
par Cheryl Rettig
The 2006 Palestinian national elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip resulted in the largest increase ever of women members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). After the ballots were tallied, six women from Hamas, eight from Fatah, and three from democratic political parties were (...) > suite
Iran / Strategy
Organizing a Movement without Changing it to an Organization
lundi 19 mai 2008
par One Million Signature Campaign, Homa Maddah
How do we define optimal organizing of social movements ? To make the discussion more specific and at the same time more tangible, I would like to define the concept of optimal organizing by using the example of our own women’s movement in Iran. In my opinion, optimal organizing has two characteristics : First, action around a "project" and second, horizontal division of work... > suite
PALESTINE / STORIES
From GAZA : Women Bloggers Speaking to You
lundi 5 mai 2008
par Topics & Roses, Karine Gantin
"I started writing in 2000 when my parents’ home was demolished by the Israeli occupation army at the beginning of this intifada. I felt strongly that I should tell people abroad about my personal experience and about what’s happening in Gaza under occupation." > suite
EGYPT / SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Celebration in Cairo to honor prominent women of the strike movement
mercredi 30 avril 2008
On March 28 the New Woman Foundation organized a celebration in Cairo to honor women who have been prominent in the strike movement, as social strikes and riots increase in Egypt. Women strike leaders from the tax collectors’ movement, Misr Spinning and Weaving, and the Hinawi Tobacco Company in Damanhour were acknowledged, along with Na‘ma ‘Abduh, a resident of Wadi ‘Amar near Alexandria, who had organized her neighborhood to protest pollution from the cement dust from the Portland Cement Company, which was causing asthma and other illnesses. The oppositional middle-class intelligentsia, which had difficulty relating to the strike movement until late 2007, has begun to demonstrate more consistent solidarity with the working class and its demands. Here follow large excerpts from the article "Underbelly of Egypt’s Neoliberal Agenda’ published by Joel Beinin for Middle East Report Online. > suite
Iran / Analysis
The Campaign : A Unique but not an Exclusive Experience
mercredi 9 avril 2008
par One Million Signature Campaign, Hoda Aminian
The One Million Signatures Campaign is different from other movements and actions that have taken place previously in the arena of women’s rights in two ways :
1. Active participation of a large number of predominantly young volunteers in this movement, whereas in the past the discussion of (...) > suite
IRAN / CALL FOR SUPPORT
Khadijeh Moghaddam Member of Campaign and Mother’s Committee Arrested
mercredi 9 avril 2008
par One Million Signature Campaign
On the morning of April 8th, security police forcibly entered the home of Khadijeh Moghaddam, women’s rights activist and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign and arrested her. Khadijeh Moghaddam who is a member of the Mother’s Committee of the Campaign was transferred to Eshrat Abad (...) > suite
