Anarkismo.net: Chile, Solidaridad #24 - There is a whole institutional framework that has been built to control the bodies of women (ca, pt)

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For a long time, abortion was considered one of the untouchable issues in this country. 
Recientementese heard the case of a teenager who, due to injuries caused by an abortion, 
attended the Tisn? Luis Hospital and was denounced by the doctor who attended. No 
objections to the code of medical ethics, we see once again not the health and dignity of 
women took shelter in breach basic rights of patients. This case is in addition to 
hundreds of those we have witnessed in our country where there is no legislation to 
safeguard women in these situations, let alone provisions guaranteeing his bodily and 
reproductive autonomy. This leads to the question: can we expect any change from the 
government of Bachelet? ---- Recently announced that for Muches can be considered a 
breakthrough: the decriminalization of abortion in cases of rape, danger to life of the 
mother and the fetus unviable. However, we believe that there is much to celebrate, as the 
fight for free abortion should be a slogan that should not lose strength by these reforms 
aimed at defusing the debate that is taking more and more power, a situation that was 
demonstrated last year after taking the Cathedral of Santiago. The post-dictatorial 
governments have a long history of reforms patch, as a compromise with the most 
reactionary sectors only demobilize and divide the forces struggling.

The Chilean State is leaving the eaves of danger to thousands of women who must resort to 
unsafe and risky to exercise on their bodies the right to terminate their unwanted 
pregnancies methods. Before this the answer seems obvious, first because Bachelet has not 
addressed the issue of abortion with depth and seriousness that is needed, much less 
understood the urgency is required; and secondly because behind it there is a whole 
institutional framework that supports and has been built to control the bodies of women. 
As a feminist it seems clear that this medical institutions reaches violating their own 
codes to maintain a moral that has nothing to do with protecting the health of patients, 
but, on the contrary, prosecuted, reveals and exposes.

It is in cases like these where once again comes to light how this moral, protected by the 
state apparatus, is built at the expense of women. The idea of women as people "who 
provide the body" as vessels for patriarchy remains intact. This is not surprising, and is 
therefore is that today we do a deeper question regarding the abortion. While we demand 
the decriminalization of abortion and freedom over our bodies, also criticize the system 
and its institutions in their entirety, because for the operation of patriarchy the 
subjection of women is needed and also those who do not conform to heterosexist norm: 
tails, lesbian, trans and intersex.

We take this case (and all that happen every day without our knowledge) as part of the 
struggles of the feminist movement and hence assume as our accepting the task of not 
silence our positions and from that premise to build a distinct moral hegemonic. We 
understand that to achieve this goal we must consider as the real emancipation linchpin of 
the whole society.

The left as a whole must be involved and leave sexist practices in all areas and all the 
ways that are exercised. That is why we believe that this flag must fight not only lift 
the feminists, but to assume that this is the task of Todes who believe in freedom as a 
core value and the liberation of society as a goal. Our commitment is to consider as 
important as the capitalist patriarchy and colonialism. Todes extend the invitation to 
those who see in the patriarchal and hierarchical system a repressor and an impediment to 
the progress of the various struggles because they only oprimides in full release can be 
born.


* Over Champurria: sexual dissent and feminist organization that tries to cross both the 
different struggles against patriarchy, capitalism and colonialism.

Related Link: http://facebook.com/lachampurria

Originally published in the edition n ? 24 of the Chilean anarchist newspaper Solidaridad

(en) FOB-CTL: Solidaridad #24 - building popular power from the territories of Argentina and Chile by Adela Velarde (ca, pt)

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The Federation of Organizations of Base FOB and the Libertarian Territorial Coordination 
(CTL) developed two meetings, one in the City of Santiago Banner and another in 
Valparaiso, with the purpose of discussing its main lines of work. The multi-sector, 
self-management and people power are presented as key concepts for the strategy starts to 
build from the territories. ---- Unit grassroots to hit hard from the neighborhoods ---- 
The FOB arises as a result of a joint effort of various neighborhood organizations on the 
outskirts of Buenos Aires, in response to the crisis of the neoliberal model in Argentina 
in the nineties. privatization of a number of public companies, the lack of employment, 
and the failure of the unions forced the population to seek new organization outside of 
the structure and a democratic form of horizontal participation forms. In a process of 
struggle several years were coming together numerous organizations established 
construction criteria common. This resulted in a series of projects and countermeasures to 
pressure governments, demanding improvements in benefits and quality of life of Argentine 
neighborhoods. The organization of neighbors, without partisan delegations or 
intermediaries, and direct action were essential. Though not follow any particular 
anarchist, yes promotes "social anarchism" based on the experience of the daily work in 
the community. Inside, every move is tactical autonomy to each other, has its own 
assemblies, the dynamics of internal operation, space and time is respected. meetings also 
develop productive and work in general, militant training workshops-in history, politics, 
education- workshops health, gender and economic struggles for health, housing, work, 
education, dining, drinks milk and especially cooperative work projects. This force today 
allows them to be present in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Chaco, Corrientes, Cordoba and 
Rosario.

The territory as a dynamic concept beyond the population

CTL includes the territory as a concept that suggests a multiplicity of communities living 
and socially constructed a specific geographic area. That is, an area may refer to a set 
of territories with some characteristic in common. In this sense, encompasses a much 
broader perspective working population, which is mechanically linked territorially in most 
organizations left. It often happens that there are jobs that are not population think 
territorial perspective, and vice versa. For CTL " If the policy of any organization is 
oriented to the settlement with grassroots community roots and local intervention 
perspective at least in the first instance, then we can say that we have a land policy . " 
Regarding Review recurrent territorial work understood as a series of workshops without 
clear prospects, says CTL; " While he understands the need to run workshops for other 
purposes, the only way that such initiatives have a useful projection to the people is 
through coordination and joint work among similar organizations, live together or not in a 
same place. It is therefore important to have serious diagnoses, and study the dynamics 
that exist between organizations (...) "

People power from and to the territories

The idea of an alternative to state power has appeared numerous times in Marxist and / or 
libertarian tradition, and has been developed as a political praxis in various 
revolutionary movements throughout history. In Latin America, the notion of a power that 
has to oppose the dominant power has been extensively developed by theoretical and 
revolutionary organizations in different sectors. For CTL bet people power is understood 
as a gradual expropriation of political and social power of the state and its regional 
branches, for example, municipalities, either by the inability of these institutions, or 
because it is part of a process of building a new society must face these tools in the 
hands of the people. 's FOB for their hand, understands people power " as the construction 
of a force from grassroots organizations, capable of assuming the functions now fulfilled 
the states and their governments, a form of power different than from the top down, so 
Horizontal and built by all players . " Thus, the perspective of both organizations 
provides that the development of popular power is inherently contradictory to state power, 
but this contradiction is not to deny the possibility of both forms of power throughout 
times. In fact most of the time, while some form of power is to become hegemonic, must 
live in a troubled and unstable relationship. According to the FOB, " we are not an art 
that descends to the neighborhood to give directions, we are part assembly work in a space 
where nucleation concrete prospects for establishing claims. Each region has its own 
struggles and local assemblies, and nationally there is a job that gives joint federal and 
forces the rest of the territory . "

Challenges for libertarians in the territorial field

The libertarian militancy territorial institutions must assume that there is, and thus in 
each step progresses will encounter a state that seeks to integrate community organizing 
in their logic, or reject it and neutralize it. Accordingly, the CTL believes " should 
bring to the organization of their own, independent forms of popular power, considering 
that the higher levels of development, the people will be in a better position to address 
the institutional cooptation maneuvers . " Thus, coordinated work between the libertarian 
militants, as well as all the revolutionary forces embedded in the work area, are the only 
guarantee to stand and face so successful that the State and can even control some 
instrumentalized and open spaces to the extent that they promote the development of 
people's power. In this sense, the territory is presented as a space in which different 
subjects and social and political expressions of the same social class. What unifies the 
population struggle fronts union, student and leftist and libertarian political project is 
one of the working class they all belong; not this global political project, it will be 
difficult to find meeting points of solidarity and mutual support. According to the CTL " 
territorial construction is a time that class configuration, which has the potential to 
make flesh their unity around specific tasks multisectoral. In other words, a 
multisectoral strategy is essential foundation territories in which people organize, and 
that is its strategic value . " opens The challenge is to agree on a common revolutionary 
strategy and the specific role that fits him to the territorial building on it. Surely 
this can not be settle in overnight, but can be proposing some guiding thesis pave the way 
for a strategy that will result from the deliberation of the popular movement as a whole, 
and its various fronts of struggle . Is essential for the period beginning have the 
ability to connect our forms of territorial self and claiming struggles with defined 
political horizons, setting in perspective the scope and objectives having the tactical 
struggle for reforms within the framework of a strategic path revolutionary.

Related Link: http://www.periodico-solidaridad.cl/