"We say, for they are clear that the fight is long and difficult" (second day)
silent steps of the Zapatistas come sorted, to the right side of the auditorium of Caracol Hope Towards a new dawn. December 30 marks the second day of the First Encounter of the Zapatista Women with Women of the World.
On the day they celebrate the exhibition of the progress in the work of women from the Caracol of La Realidad and Oventik. Labor unions collective of women artisans, autonomous education, the health of women, working mothers still struggle, the difficulty to assume positions of responsibility in their communities and regions, both into women themselves as to the family context, social and organizational. All themes are defoliating in concrete work, goals and challenges small and large to be overcome.
On the other side of the auditorium are placed women in Mexico and the world that come with their stories and their struggles, pains and joys and observe, to share or express, through questions asked at the table, their doubts and differences.
To learn the stories of these women of the world must stand down at the height of the banks, look for the breaks, ask and listen.
To understand the history that Zapatista women have also need to stand down, follow in the footsteps of fellow silent when at the end of each session will go all together to the place where it may take off their masks and safely share their experiences and struggles in every place, every community, every family, every woman's heart and body.
If we walk in another sense we could go out the back door of the auditorium, the little girl, which gives the place where the sun and the moon rises. There are the shops of the Zapatista families who came to the meeting and, unlike the central area, men do not cook much but the fellow leaning over the stove on the floor, they come to watch the door or the cracks between what happens inside tables and loaded the girls and boys. So if we go around, because although many people are these days with the "other work" in the kitchens and cleaning of the meeting, it seems that it only lasts a few yards and then from there everyone is who is, and the battlefield, one of the battlefields of the Zapatistas seems clear, and can never be reduced to a stove, a child charged with a tiny back child, or a clothes washing and rubbing in River.
From the height of the reality of the communities are best measured the dimensions of the struggle of the Zapatista indigenous women. Women who arrive at the doors and crevices of the meeting to listen to their own colleagues to speak in a language incomprehensible to them (Castilian), are real, the signs on every corner these days remind us that men can not be spokespeople or speakers, and translators, cleaning and cooking but also are real, and so are the women who climb on stage to say who fought with their partners because "some men do not allow us to participate, then we realized that we must take our rights with their hands, because we deserve as human beings "(Member Comandanta CCRI).
all part of the same reality, in an effort to change what more it costs.
When older women have what your life was when girls in the estates where many indigenous families worked as semi slaves, we can understand what the trip, the ground covered by the Zapatista women in a short period of time, short low more than twenty years, in which the grandchildren say "as a child I have freedom to dance, I can play, I have the right to education autonomously." Some women say that "men are very difficult to change, because they are sexist, because the educated English ranchers and to despise women."
own support among women is the catalyst to this process, and that explains the strength and understanding that the Zapatista women speak about the experiences of other women who struggle and suffer, as indigenous women they met while traveling with the Other Campaign in Northern Mexico, the maquiladora workers, the political prisoners, all those with whom they are understood and reflected in the internal and external struggle, in their own organizations and in reality they live.
In the tension between public and private space are giving, with much effort, the dynamics that allow women from the empowerment of many of them in training, community service and strong collective responsibilities, they change their self-image and changing the image that men have of them, so that one day, perhaps soon, and not to ask her husband permission to take a job in the organization, and no one says that the woman who leaves the home without her husband is going to look for another man.
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