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Sexual politics

Homegrown Feminism in the Caribbean

For women who built revolutions with their dreams and sewing machines.

“Feminism cannot be monolithic in its issues, goals and strategies, since it constitutes the political expression of the concerns and interests of women from different regions, classes, nationalities, and ethnic backgrounds.

While gender subordination has universal elements, feminism cannot be based on a rigid concept of universality that negates the wide variation of women’s experience.

There is and must be a diversity of feminisms, responsive to the different needs and concerns of different women, and define by them for themselves.”

— DAWN, 1987

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South Africa

Soweto: the black students’ rebellion of 1976

Its forty years today since a peaceful demonstration by black students in Soweto was met by brutal police violence. resulting in the death of twenty three people.

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Pakistan

Demanding land rights is not terrorism

A massive repression of the most militant but peaceful peasant movement in Pakistan —the Anjman Mozareen Punjab (AMP)—is underway. Most of its leadership has been arrested under false anti-terrorist laws. Dozens are missing while over 50 remain behind bars. All have been declared “terrorists” by the Okara district police, working hand in hand with the Military Farms administration, which mainly serves military officers.

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