October 7th 2008—Weaving Struggles for Social Justice in Guatemala
I’m here at the America’s Social Forum in Guatemala City as part of a delegation called Las Petateras (which means “weavers” in Spanish) which is facilitated by Just Associates. www.justassociates.org We are from multiple countries and backgrounds and all work on multiple issues, yet we are united in our feminism and joint struggles for women’s rights in our respective nations and globally.
Together we ‘weave’ our perspectives, experiences, and strategies for social change and we seek to be weavers/connectors of other groups and people in our respective spheres into collective spaces of dialogue, sharing, joint processes, and linked progress towards justice.
At this political moment in the United States, it is a critical time for me to be at the Americas Social Forum weaving the voices here into the political discourse at home. Most know the old adage, “When the United States of America sneezes, the world gets a cold”. With the historical and current deeds as well as the geopolitical position of the US being what they are, my being here and engaging in exchanges with the Petateras and the thousands of others who are here united towards lifting issues of regional and global significance, is key.
This engagement yields an important set of perspectives for the 41 Million Strong Campaign, which seeks to amplify the voices of those who while greatly impacted by US policies, are traditionally invisible/voiceless in the development of those policies.
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