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Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca. Mexico.
30 of November of the 2002

POSICIoN Of the Women's Workgroup Of the CIPO-RFM BEFORE the I SUMMIT OF indigenous WOMEN OF the AMeRICAS

TO LIVE FOR BEING FREE And TO FIGHT TO STOP BEING ENSLAVED

We are women of Popular the indigenous Council of Oaxaca Ricardo Flowers Magon, CIPO-RFM that we tired, that we slept and that we mistook because we are made of meat and bone, with defects and virtues and that we are not perfect, that we have different experiences, Traditions of struggle and organizativas, but create in the free association and coexistence of the towns, Still like in the importance of being different to complete to us.

The Chatinas, Zapotecas, Mixtecas, Cuicatecas, Tacuatas, Mazatecas among other we joined ourselves in the CIPO-RFM, to discuss the problematicas that we lived like indigenous women, since our condition like indigenous women who we lived in the field is totally different from the racially mixed women and who they live in the city. Our companeras racially mixed can to discuss on day of work or participation of women in positions publicos, we no, because we cannot speak of work days when we rose to 3 of the manana to initiate with our daily activities and the hour to sleep is until the ten at night, we can either discuss on our participation in publicos positions when not even we are taken into account in the general assemblies of our towns is why we are constructing a new space to discuss and to propose changes from our family, educating to our daughters who men and women we are worth equal and of the same form with our children to catching to wash its clothes, to cook and to wash frets. And also we have learned to be respected between us, because we are convinced that speaking together, working together and fighting together we can obtain but and soon better what we want.

During 5 years we have obtained the unit of the women of different regions and 2 encounter have become of women at regional and state level in where there was propose of extreme importance for us and who we shared with you:

1. if it is spoken of the rights of the women is important that our husbands take factories so that they know our rights and they learn to respect them.
2. to concienciar to our municipal authorities so that they let to us attend the general assemblies of our towns and our voice are worth.
3. no longer we want that our communities single are of viejitas viejitos and, of ninas and ninos by the migration of our spouses, and what we want is to share the responsibility with them, the education of our children.

These single activities we made it in our communities but we think that nonsingle it is a family fight nor, nor of communities, but worldwide to obtain country or a world different from which we lived.

For that reason the magonistas of the CIPO-RFM, we invited to all the women of the world so that they remove his anger and they return it organized protest, to that their word and suenos walk all the walls and streets of the world, so that, having different hands and faces, a single heart even exists to fight, demanding:

1. Rights of the women to be treated like equal in all the places, the house, the work, Health, the education the right to the Earth, to occupy representations in the community, to not being hurt, to decide whichever children to have, that our work is recognized, etc. And because especificos programs of women who allow the qualification, education, formacion, development etc are created.
2. by the fulfillment in the agreements of San Andres and against the haltings of those who we fought to make a this reality.
3. because the laws take off that go against our towns (the FOX law), stop you order of apprehension of our sisters and brothers.
4. by the delivery of resources for the development of our towns (agencies and rancherias) and the injustice is punished and not it poverty, Still as our communitarian projects of transport, organica agriculture are respected, and against the transgenicos and the old robbery of our biodiversity and knowledge.
5. because the agrarian problems are solved since we are those that but we underwent the consequences, that earth dowry to live itself to the unmarried mothers and stops the repression against our towns and representatives on the part of the paramilitary ones, policias and the municipal authorities, state and federal.
6. because the demands of health are solved, productive house, use, qualification, projects, ways, light, water, feeding, schools etc.
7. All we must fight against the neoliberalism, plan Puebla Panama (PPP), megaproyecto of the Isthmus and Colombia Plan because these projects benefitted to but the rich ones and us the indigenous are to us clearing earth, ended all the biodiversity, no longer we will be able to journey the highways because these you would seran private, received us but by medicines, foods and what we produce very difficult sera to commercialize it, all this it motivates to our companeros to emigrate to the north in where some find the death.

It is hour of which all the women of the world we unite our forces to fight against all the things that have maintained to us for a long time in the poverty, in the violence and marginalization. Let us do what each one knows and can do from its house, the work, the school, with the family, the neighbor, the friend etc. So that our daughters see a different future.

WOMEN MAGONISTAS WE PROPOSE:

  • Recognizing multicultural and the indigenous diversity we propose to articulate international the indigenous movement in where nobody represents anybody, but each one to each one and we act with a consensuada platform and we defend it in the spaces in that we acted and we can, without wanting to senalar a unico or main way.
  • Between all to look for the forms to make fulfill international treaties in when to the rights of the women in each one of the Latin American nations.
  • To orchestrate measures that allow that the agencies and foundations of cooperation and development directly support to the indigenous women of the communities and social and communitarian organizations and nonsingle to the ONG's, according to criteria and necessities raised by the own communities and nonsingle by the donors.
  • To define the areas on which the women we must insist that the governments take into account opinion from the women for the accomplishment from Politicall you publish.
  • To make activities that guarantee the completion of asistencialistas programs and prioritize all those expositions that allow us to get to have greater autonomy autogestion and autoorganizacion.
  • That each nation summons itself to give pursuit to the agreements that we arrive Here in the summit, and the form looks for to spread and to share the information with each one of the women of the communities, it is to say that the things arrive down.
  • we are not against the development, but against one vision of development that prevails to us and it does not respect our conception, cosmovision, our language and letter against the nature and the life in the places where one is based. It is to say our opposition is to the development that it has like idea that everything is saleable and it does not take into account which we thought the Indian towns.
  • To create platform own of women, which of unit to the organizational efforts and participation to the women, where the unit axis is consensus points and the discord points are part of the agenda of international discussion, where also they get up the relative a:
    1) the women in situations military
    2) Health and the women
    3) woman and Politicall you publish
    4) woman and autonomia
    5) woman and autodesarrollo
    6) woman and human rights
    7) woman and globalizacion
    8) forms of real participation of the women
  • ademas this summit must be pronounced by:
  • To reject the indigenous law of Fox and the exigency of which the government fulfills the 3 senales demanded by the EZLN to resume I engage in a dialog
  • Cease to the repression and militarization of the communities, organizations and indigenous representatives of Chiapas, Oaxaca and Guerrero.
  • Against the Politicall military of Bus towards the towns of the world
  • By guarantees for the migrantes
Lamentably we are not all those that we are, but single a sector: the one of which they had better luck than the one of million of us. Here the voice of those of, those always needs that do not know to read nor to write, those that did not have some form to arrive until Here but which they are pretext so that others speak and in whose name and representation many spoke although they do not know us nor in documentary.

Nevertheless the few that, in spite of all the obstaculos that put to us, we could be strained we want to request to them that we put our effort so that event is able to journey of words to facts and it demands to governor of Oaxaca Jose Murat, that lets repress to the women and the indigenous men who we are of the CIPO-RFM and solves in fact, not with speeches, the exigency of house of the unmarried mothers of Huatulco, it is punished to the paramilitary ones of San Miguel Aloapam that to blows caused the abortion of companeras of ours organizacion and the law is applied to the Jose Efigenio Hernandez Ramirez, President Municipal de Huatulco to strike, to injure and to try to assassinate women of the CIPO-RFM in Huatulco.

BY The RECONSTRUCTION And IT FREES ASSOCIATION OF The TOWNS
BY THE ORGANIZING MEETING OF THE CIPO-RFM
BY THE Women's Workgroup

CARMEN PEREZ CHAVEZ   REYNA PEREZ HERNANDEZ   DOLORES VILLALOBOS CUAMATZI


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