#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) France, UCL AL #327 - Antipatriarchy, Non-mixed Federal Coordination of UCL: Speak up and never let go (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 UCL's first mixed federal coordination was held in March. About fifty women and

gender minorities delegated by their local groups met to decide on the
orientations of their organization. A look back at a pioneering initiative. ----
The UCL manifesto affirms that to fight against patriarchy, the implementation of
practices of welcoming, egalitarian and emancipatory struggles is essential.
However, despite numerous tools to encourage everyone to speak and mandate them
(priority in speaking turns, single-sex groups, etc.), speaking time remains
overwhelmingly occupied by men. ---- Few mandates are given to women and gender
minorities whose presence in federal or even local authorities is too rare. The
UCL therefore voted to hold a federal coordination (CF) without a cisgender man.
This is the first time that a mixed organization of our social camp organizes a
national decision-making body in non-mixed.

Every minute of intervention is training time
Building more equality, FC has created the conditions for true self-management
and direct democracy where everyone can represent themselves and others, rather
than systematically delegating their say to men. Many have assumed mandates for
the first time, seizing all the political debates that run through the
organization, beyond anti-patriarchal themes.

Contrary to the stereotypical gender distribution of specialties, everyone has
experienced their ability to represent their comrades on all subjects. These two
days also simply began to make up for the considerable backlog of speaking time
accumulated since the creation of UCL. This catch-up is infinitely precious since
each minute of intervention is in itself a time spent training and asserting
one's own legitimacy to speak. Thus, the organization's women and gender
minorities are now better equipped to participate fully during federal times.

The experience calls for renewal. For all the reasons previously mentioned, to
continue to strengthen the links between all the women and gender minorities in
the organization and to break the isolation sometimes felt in very masculine
local groups, and, who knows, so that - to be new uses of debate better rid of
the reflexes induced by our patriarchal habits.

The holding of a single-sex CF is in addition to the tools that UCL is equipping
itself with to carry out the anti-patriarchal struggle within it. Whether through
the implementation of a single-sex procedure in the event of sexual assault,
shared with our social camp[1], or through this new initiative: for the
protection of women activists as for direct democracy, the UCL is feminist.

Louise (UCL Montreuil)

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