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> NATIONAL CALL BY WOMEN FROM THE NEIGHBOURHOODS
> NEITHER WHORES NOR SUBMISSIVE!
>
> We, women living in the back-street neighbourhoods,
> from different origins,
> religious or not, launch this call for our rights to
> freedom and
> emancipation. Socially oppressed by a society that
> locks us up in ghettos
> where misery and exclusion are accumulated.
> Suffocatted by the macho-ism of
> the men of our neighbourhoods who, in the name of "
> tradition " deny us our
> most basic rights.
>
> We affirm here, united for the first " States
> General of Women from the
> Neighbourhoods," our will to fight for our rights,
> our freedom, our
> femininity. We refuse to be forced into false
> choices, of being submitted
> to the ties of tradition, or of selling our body to
> the market.
>
> ° enough of moral lessons : our condition has
> degraded. The media,
> politicians, have done nothing, or so very little,
> for us.
> ° enough of miserabilism. We've had enough of being
> talked for, of being
> treated with contempt.
> ° enough of the justifications of our oppression in
> the name of the right
> to difference, and in the name of respect for those
> who impose us to bow
> our heads
> ° enough of the silence, in public debates, about
> violence, about
> precarity, about discrimination.
>
> The feminist movement has deserted from the
> neighbourhoods. There is a
> great urgency, and we have decided to act.
>
> For us, the struggle against racism, against
> exclusion and the struggle for
> our freedom and emancipation are one and the same
> struggle. Nobody will
> free us from this double oppression if it is not
> ourselves.
>
> We take the floor and launch this call so in every
> city in France our
> sisters, our mothers, will hear our cry for freedom
> and will join our
> struggle for a better live in our neighbourhoods.
>
> For us to be heard : Distribute our call as widely
> as possible and
> participate to all of the feminist and anti-racist
> initiatives that remain
> at the heart of our struggle !
>
> Fédération Nationale des Maisons des Potes
> 190, Boulevard de Charonne - 75020 PARIS
> Tél. 01.44.93.23.23 Fax. 01.44.93.23.24
> fede@???
>
>
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