The other day I got entangled in a political discussion and, as almost always happens in these cases, my partner (a) ended by asking: "let us not talk politics." Besides the fact that no one ever force you to talk about something that does not want, I do not agree with this way out of confrontation. "Constructive discussions" enrich, teach us, give us a breath of life.
So I'll add some things for my partner (a), and now pass to the general public. Let's be clear about one of my positions: the responsible citizen who complains about the politico-social-economic situation in a country like Mexico is required, minimally, to explore ways to help make this changes. And if it is their duty, is a minimum responsibility, I say, that ultimately further arguments or complaining to the mobilization of one of the possible paths of change (hopefully opts for the latter). About
Adelitas movement fighting for the defense of oil and "cowardice" of AMLO by sending them to battle front (if you write "cowardly shield of women" in Google, one of the first league refers to a note written by Enrique Campos Suarez's blog First News with Carlos Loret de Mola, ie a dirty war levels of government is handling the idea that AMLO is a coward):
Cowardice "why? Why send a group of women? Will my wife as me from participating in the defense of oil? If the answer to the last two questions is yes (and judging by the note of Campos Suárez, yes), then what is given is a sexist argument that denies the role of women in social movements. Merely assuming that Andrés Manuel sent women to the forefront of the fight means that women alone do not have initiative and decision-making in social movements. Without understanding that social struggle is also no equality between men and women, one must back up a bit and re-analyze the proposals of non-radical feminism. Not forgetting, of course, that equality raised by non-radical feminists claim that men are also involved in the struggle for equality. And do not forget that, oddly enough, many women are in many of their macho attitudes. Some examples of the involvement of women in social struggles:
- In April 1974, thousands of Portuguese women took to the streets to exchange flowers by bullets, putting carnations in their rifles from the soldiers. That day (but not only in response to the symbolic act that gave its name to the Carnation Revolution) the dictatorship that ruled Portugal from 1926 to be finished, he introduced a democratic state and finally the Portuguese colonies gained their independence.
- Djamila Amrane, a French woman raised in Algeria, was one of many involved in the national liberation movement in Algeria. She was arrested, convicted, and tortured by their ideas of liberation and activism within the movement.
- In the summer of 2006, in the movement of teachers in Oaxaca, and after the disqualification of several local radio stations, the rebels were found in a dirty war situation orchestrated by the federal government level across the country: commissioned the commercial media to discredit the movement. Not only that, the movement required to maintain a local information link with civil society was always willing to support them, to organize protests and appeal. Then, in view of the situation, a group of 2000 women took peacefully facilities Canal 9 Oaxaca Corporation of Radio and Television (owned by the state government). Almost immediately after the seizure of Channel 9, the women began to transmit information messages, messages of support to the struggle of the APPO, and to make complaints against arbitrary state government against civil society and teachers.
- The Zapatista movement in Chiapas was conceived in early 1994 is unique, among other reasons, he has made explicit as a goal of their struggle to include women in the movement and the requirement to respect their rights and defend the equality of men and women. As a result, the Zapatistas proclaimed a Revolutionary Law of Women, which will settle the specific demands of the movement on this issue. Not only that, 14 years after the onset of the movement, the Zapatista women in Chiapas (and not living in Chiapas, too) have been incorporated into the work of social movement in many ways. A noteworthy example is the Third Encuentro of Zapatista Women held in December 2007 in Chiapas. In it, the Zapatista women shared with other community women and women who came from outside, how they organize, their way of seeing life the way you do the movement, its achievements over the years.
adelitas The movement is not trivial or is a manifestation of the cowardice of a public figure. Is an example of the initiative taken by civil society groups to fight for a common goal, as in other social struggles.
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