Italian women in the streets for the freedom of all, the ‘Care Revolution’ and sisterhood with Afghan women
“Tull quadze”, which in Pashtu, one of the main Afghan languages, means “All women” has become the watchword to call for “taking care of the world” and to participate in Rome, in Piazza del Popolo on Saturday at 2 pm. The tam tam started from the Magnolia Assembly. The magnolia is the tree in the courtyard of the International House of Women in Rome, which was a historic Good Shepherd home.
We have learnt a lesson from the pandemic: to fight to practise that care which has at its centre the life of human beings, nature and all living things. Otherwise, the response will always be the same: injustice, inequality, exploitation of human beings and of our land, and ultimately war and destruction. Afghanistan is the tragic mirror of the cynicism of all powers, of the murky deceptions of the paternalism of care that only works with the concentric circles of family first, nation first, never common humanity. For this reason, what happens in that country is of the same kind as the deaths in the Mediterranean, the tortures in Libya, the camps in the Balkans, the scene of brutal violence on women’s bodies.
(source: https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2021/09/23/news/donne_in_piazza_contro_femminicidio-318984381/
AND LET'S NOT FORGET THAT IN EUROPE THERE IS A FEMINICIDE EVERY SIX SECONDS!!!!!!
“Do you realise what a show of courage the Afghan women are giving? What strength. What a lesson for all of us. They are demonstrating and risking their lives for their freedom. We must do it too. We have a duty to support our sisters. We see it in these days of protests in which Afghan women are putting themselves at risk, patches on their mouths, the most disparate forms of an underground and then visible struggle, and underground and then visible again, for women’s freedom.” (Laura Linda Sabbadini, La Stampa 23/09/2021)
“It was an accident, you say,
sorry if I am between your sting and the void.”(Landai, a short, anonymous form of poetry, born in Afghanistan, which women used in secret to invoke love, freedom and to denounce the violence and abuse they had suffered).
WHAT IS A REVOLUTION IN CARE?
CARE means attention, protection, assistance and care and, therefore, it refers, on the one hand, to the awareness of dependence, of the state of need and of the necessity of relationship, as constitutive elements of human beings, and, on the other hand, to concrete projects of care. It is a question of caring for the world, not only through work, whether social or domestic, but also through a commitment to a cultural transformation, which can lead to a new balance between working time and non-working time, to a different idea of taking charge of the living and of protecting the common home we inhabit”.
(source: https://www.osservatoreromano.va/it/news/2020-10/la-rivoluzione-della-cura.html)
THERE IS AN URGENT NEED TO ACTIVATE A SISTERHOOD OF PEOPLES
ON A GLOBAL SCALE AND IN EVERYDAY LIFE:
in order to challenge the dominant socio-economic paradigm and restore centrality to a system that includes the care
and nurturing of human beings, both in the domestic, i.e. private, and social, i.e. public, spheres,
combining paid and unpaid work, looking at women
as the primary responsible parties and protagonists of this change.
