The Special Session on Sat Sept. 14th will be presented by Genevieve Vaughan of the Maternal Gift Economy Movement (MGEM) and Maria Suárez Toro of Feminist Elders Against Genocide (FEAG).
The session will feature first a presentation by Palestinian feminist Lila Sharif of the the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC), helping the audience understand the kind of genocide taking place in Palestine, characterized by the Collective as Reproductive Genocide in the “targeting of Palestinian individuals and communities in Gaza in what has become a condition of reproductive genocide, referred to the policies, discourses, and practices that delimit, restrict, target, or diminish the life-giving capacities, choices, access, short-term health, long-term health, and life chances of communities made vulnerable by systemic military violence and occupation, besiegement, settler colonialism, and/or imperial warfare.”
Following Leila Sharif’s presentation Caribbean, Latin American. US American and European feminists, working in solidarity with the Palestinian feminists in framing the narrative of the genocide from a feminist perspective of the PFC, will begin with the special presentation of two major solidarity initiatives: Pilar Emixtin (Argentina) of Global Feminist Action (GFA) on the Global South Feminist Assembly in Solidarity with Palestine and Jodie Evans (USA) of the CODEPINK activist initiative, challenging the US government policy regarding divestment, militarism and its support of Israel´s zionist policy to annihilate Palestine.
After their presentations, the three speakers will share a short dialogue about the meaning of solidarity from a global feminist perspective and will be followed by two respondents: Caribbean Peggy Anthrobus and European Paula Melchiori of the recently created Cross Generational Feminists in Global Solidarity with Palestine (CGS).
WHEN
– (PDT)
WHERE
Zoom
CONTACT
Jodie · jodie@codepink.org