[NextGenderation]
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Dear Friends,
As many of you already know, over two years ago the
Eskalera Karakola
launched a project to recuperate and rehabilitate the
building it
presently
occupies in order to build a Feminist Social Center.
Now the charges
pressed by the owner of the building leave us little
room for maneuver
and
will soon put an abrupt end to this project: the trial
is on the 14th
of
December, and to take part in it we would have to pay
25,000 euros.
Logically enough we don¹t have this money, and for
this reason among
others,
we will not have justice. No doubt we would lose
anyway. The City
Administration, despite our efforts to open a process
of negotiation to
resolve the conflict, has not formulated any concrete
commitments
though
they have made all kinds of useless gestures. We keep
on tugging.
We are talking about a relocation which would permit
the continuation
of
this initiative. We also don¹t want to abandon the
idea of Embajadores
40,
the current building. We don¹t want to renounce what
we believe to be
just.
As we always say: perpetuating vital projects is a
question of
political
will. The eviction of the Eskalera Karakola, in any
case, is a great
paradox.
Because in the Administration they are talking a great
deal about
³major
advances² in the situation of women: they talk about
parity,
reconciliation,
equality, emancipation. They talk about how we just
have to ³take one
step
forward² because, they say, we have already come all
this way on that
long
path from the caves to here. Alright, they say, one
more step and
that¹s
enough.
But this path goes through the victimization,
domestication and
disempowerment of women. Women, yes, but as victims,
as objects of
assistance As subjects, collective feminist subjects,
then no. When
we are
autonomous no, when we leap into the public sphere and
make demands no,
as
interlocutors definitely no. When we speak and
construct living
movements,
then the public powers respond: invisibilization,
instrumentalization,
capture, cutting of subventions, eviction. When we
say: domination
does not
disappear, it changes, adopting new forms: the
increasing
precariousness of
existence, reconciliation but only by women, legal
racism,
spectacularized
violence, crisis of care, sexual normalization in
consumption, daily
global
wars all of that NO.
But feminism is not just an institutional instrument.
And the path we
are
traveling doesn¹t end, it transforms on shifting
ground, and not
necessarily
for the better.
The 11th of DECEMBER we want to rupture these
contradictions. We want
to
make visible all the networks which we weave every
day, creating
feminism
from our potency. We want to express the excess that
we are for power.
The
excess that maintains a living movement, that doesn¹t
allow itself to
be
trapped, that is irreducible and functions both inside
and outside and
in
the margins of institutions, in spaces of autonomy.
We want to
reconquer
and celebrate our capacity to make active decisions as
political
subjects,
subjects of a living feminism, not an assisted one.
The 11th of DECEMBER we want to take the street, see
if we are capable
of
articulating that old desire to create many 8 of
March, because we are
here
and we have a lot to say. Occupy the public space of
Madrid. All the
women¹s groups (and their friends). Construct a
scenario from our own
plurality and from our differences. We would like for
each group to
bring
its own slogans, its own demands and proposals.
Because the eviction
of the
Karakola is more than just the Karakola: it is the
contradiction within
which we find ourselves every day in all our political
activities.
May the 11th of DECEMBER be a mark of feminist
visibility, a political
tool
to erupt into the daily life of this city. And a bid
of this kind
means
nothing without all of you. We want to invite you, in
complicity, to
construct this day together: those of you that are
here and those of
you
from other places. That you come to Madrid to take
the streets, to
bid for
the feminism which we are already inventing every day.
and many thanks to all of you for being there.
DEMONSTRATION-VARIETÉ in MADRID.
SATURDAY 11 DECEMBER 2004. 19.00h
WOMEN¹S PARTY in THE ESKALERA KARAKOLA
c/embajadores 40, 21.00h
LUNCH AND INFORMAL ENCOUNTER
SUNDAY 12 DECEMBER 15.00h
For those groups or individuals coming from outside
Madrid: in order to
facilitate your stay, write to us at
karakola@???
There will be a center to sleep in (bring a sleeping
bag) and/or houses
in
which some people can stay. Even if you don¹t need
help finding a
place to
stay, please let us know if you are coming
A feminist body in motion remains in motion unless
acted upon by a
brute
force which modifies or domesticates it
³EPPUR SI MUOVE!²
www.sindominio.net/karakola
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