our current anarcha-queer movement in ljubljana symbolically formed around the 8th of march march where for the last 4 years we tried to address issues like femicides as a symptom of patriarchal society, our dissatisfaction with liberal feminism, organise a strike against reproductive work and reclaim the night against gendered violence.
this year we could not recognise a more pressing issue as the current attack of the israeli state on palestinians and the still ongoing genocide in gaza. we can not imagine a womens and other oppressed genders liberation in the west while the killings and exploitation of our sisters continues by the hands of colonial forces around the world.
this is why we anarcha-queers, organised on the principals of (intersectional) feminism and de-colonial thought, called for two protests on the 8th of march in ljubljana this year. in the morning we gathered in front of the US embassy and called for recognising the american imperialist system as complicit in killings and oppression of peoples in the middle east and africa. the evening protest adressed the 8th of march through antimilitarism - we expressed a clear position to stop all wars, to support peoples (armed) resistence and we called for a feminist insurgence against the war machine all over the globe!
below we are sharing the call to the first protest (in english) and the statement from the sisters group sestre (in slovene):
NO 8TH OF MARCH CELEBRATION FOR THE ONES COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE!
On March 8th, during the working hours of the U.S. patriarchal and imperialist embassy in Ljubljana, at 11.30 am, we will stand in feminist solidarity against U.S. neo-colonial misogynist affairs. We call out the U.S. genocidal foreign affairs for their ongoing crimes in Gaza. The resolutions of patriarchy and imperialism will be held accountable.
We will stand together in solidarity for Abeer al-Janabi, for all the women in Gaza who suffered sexual violence in israeli prisons. For all the women and people of all genders who were sexually, physically, and psychologically abused and bombed by your armed patriarchal machines, for the sexual abuses and torture committed in your imperial prison in Iraq, the Abu Gharib prison we hold you accountable. We condemn you not only for your crimes in the Gulf War, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and so on but also for your horrible crimes against humanity in Libya and Syria, creating a humanitarian disaster rarely seen throughout the world. Your occupation and crimes have directly, seriously, and permanently harmed people’s rights to life and freedom.
On International Women’s Rights Day we demand:
– To cease-fire in Gaza immediately;
– To stop enabling and funding genocide against Palestinian people immediately;
– To leave Jordan and take your military imperialist misogynist armed troops with you;
– To take your imperialist, misogynist hands off Yemen;- To stop your colonial foreign misogynist affairs everywhere immediate
U.S.A., U.S.A., You can’t hide! You are funding genocide!
U.S.A., U.S.A., you can’t hide! You enable genocide!
Free Palestine! Free Gaza! Stop the genocide!
S FEMINISTIČNIM BOJEM PROTI VOJNIM STROJEM
2 leti vojne v ukrajini, meseci genocida v gazi, kongu, sudanu, vojaško nasilje v mjanmaru, kolumbiji, jemnu in drugod po svetu. 8. marca se združimo v trdnem odporu proti sistemom zatiranja in izkoriščanja. ne bomo tiho, ko nas poskušajo imperialistične, patriarhalne in kolonialne sile utišati – glasno in odločno zahtevamo konec nasilja in izkoriščanja! skupaj smo močnejšx, to ni le slogan.
vojna, orožje, genocid in represija niso neizogibne stvari. terjati mir danes konkretno pomeni terjati razgradnjo režima apartheida in okupacije v palestini, prekinitev vseh vojaških intervencij v ukrajini, razgradnjo vojaške industrije in razpustitev vojaških organizacij vseh vrst, nasprotovanje porabi javnega denarja za oboroževanje, za vojno, za vojsko in policijo ter njuno infrastrukturo. nočemo kapitalističnega miru, ki za številne med nami pomeni življenje v pomanjkanju, vsakodnevno nasilje in izkoriščanje, hkrati pa marsikje pomeni tudi pripravo na novo vojno. zavračamo pinkwashing, ki ga izvaja izrael, saj spodbuja udeležbo žensk* in kvir oseb v vojski kot končni horizont emancipacije. jasno nam je, da je transfeministični boj edini način za kolektivno osvoboditev.
pozivamo k transfeministični stavki, ki ruši družbeno reprodukcijo in kapitalistično proizvodnjo, katere del je tudi vojna industrija. stavkamo proti vojni kot največjemu izrazu patriarhalnega nasilja, bojkotiramo civilno infrastrukturo, ki spodbuja genocid v palestini in oboroževanje opresorjev. ustavljamo skrbstveno delo – delo v naših domovih, v tovarnah, bolnišnicah, skladiščih, na univerzah in šolah, v pisarnah in menzah. stavko širimo onkraj plačanega dela, ki vključuje številne oblike dela na črno, prekarnega, neformalnega in nepriznanega dela. pozivamo k solidarnosti med vsemi zatiranimi skupnostmi.
koliko so vredna naša življenja? koliko je vreden naš čas? malo, premalo, skoraj nič za kapitalističe izkoriščevalce. če naša življenja niso vredna – stavkamo! ustavimo reprodukcijo kolonialno-imperialističnega sistema – če se ustavimo me, se ustavi svet – s protesti in stavkami vseh oblik plačanega in neplačanega dela, z bojkotom nakupov in vsakodnevnih dejavnosti, ki prinašajo dobiček kapitalističnemu sistemu, pozivanjem k embargu na orožje in krepitvijo prizadevanj za preprečitev in prekinitev dobave orožja izraelu, uporabo platform za govor o palestinskih ženskah v gazi, bloganjem in pisanjem na družbenih medijih ter širjenjem tvitov, letakov ali slik s sporočili solidarnosti z gazo in z vsemi koloniziramini skupnostmi globalnega juga. naj bo 8. marec stopnjevanje boja proti genocidni vojni v gazi in sionističnemu kolonialnemu projektu naseljencev v palestini!
transnacionalnistična solidarnost presega vse meje: pridružujemo se palestinkam, ki se upirajo in borijo za svoj obstoj in samoodločbo, tistim, ki zapuščajo državo izrael in vsem po svetu, od afrike, zahoda, bližnjega vzhoda do latinske amerike, ki si prizadevajo za lastno osvoboditev!
s feminističnim bojem proti vojnim strojem!