Fight the oppressive, imperialist
puppet, corrupt and fascist government!
GABRIELA Alliance of Filipino Women
sends our militant greetings to women all over the world as we
commemorate the International Women’s Day this year.
We celebrate and honor the lives of
women who fought more than a hundred years ago for the recognition
of women’s key role in the economic, political and cultural
spheres. They laid the foundation upon which the militant women’s
movement was built and sparked the struggle to end women’s
oppression and abuse.
We send our solidarity to our sisters
in Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangladesh who are organizing in unions to
fight multi-national companies that squeeze super-profit from
workers’ sweat and blood. We salute our sisters in India and
Pakistan, in Africa and Latin America, who are passionately and
tirelessly defending their lands and ancestral domain against the
destruction of big foreign agricultural and mining companies
despite political repression and criminalization by fascist
governments.
We celebrate with our sisters in
Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq who are calling for peace and
justice and an end to US and NATO led occupation of their lands. We
stand in solidarity with our sisters in Palestine who never ceased
fighting against Zionist occupation of Palestinian lands. We salute
our sisters in Kurdistan who are leading the fight to resist war
and occupation by fundamentalists and in asserting their people’s
right to recognition and autonomy. We stand with our sisters in
Haiti, who are relentlessly fighting for their sovereign right
against foreign intervention and repression.
In the US, we recognize and honor our
black sisters and all women of color who are fighting against
systemic discrimination and human rights violations perpetrated by
the state. We stand in solidarity with our indigenous sisters in
Canada, the US, Switzerland and Australia who are fighting against
discrimination and are struggling to uphold and defend their
culture and ancestral domain.
We salute our sisters and
grandmothers in Japan, Korea, China and here in the Philippines who
despite their advanced age continue to call for justice for the
systematic sexual atrocities committed to them by the Japanese
Imperial Army during World War II and who are still fighting
against state powers that want to obliterate them from history. We
are one with them in their call “Never again to another
generation of comfort women!”
We honor, we celebrate, we continue
the fight!
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