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ntry across the board on all indicators their access to adequate housing on reserves is appallingly inadequate and movement into urban areas often leads to urban poverty mental illness addiction prostitution and subjection to state violence and street violence of all kinds both on reserves and in urban areas far too many are without access to decent medical care standard education options and community supports the state is more likely to help first nations people by stealing their children as it did in the past first nations land is robbed and stripped of resources and polluted while communities are poisoned yes we should worry that the poisons and pollutants run downstream why wouldn t we worry first that they attack the land and people to whom we have legal and ethical obligations my life s work outside my family has been a commitment to the liberation of women in that regard first nations women are the most legally subjugated people in canada subject to the most violence the fastest growing rates of incarceration in the country and systematic historical and ongoing action to relieve them of those most precious to them their children i ve always believed in grassroots action even though i was an academic i ve always believed in working from the bottom up because if we resolve the problems of those who suffer the worst exploitation oppression and repression we cannot but resolve those problems for all trickle up actually works it only makes sense that i suppose is the more selfish reason for supporting idle no more sisters in spirit the aboriginal women s action network chief theresa spence the national aboriginal women s association and many other fn organizational and community actions for my own children and grandchildren and yours i think that s ok doing the right thing has those kinds of benefits we must also listen to those many indigenous people who live on unceded land in canada those with whom the state has never negotiated treaties and whose attempts to claim their land through legal processes are backed up in the courts and dealt with unjustly as a white settler woman i still have a lot to learn i ve made mistakes in the ways i ve tried to be an ally and a supporter and i m sure to make them again but as a friend said last night better to risk a flawed activism than to maintain a perfect inactivism i m doing my best and that s what we all have to do if we want a future in this country in relationship with those nations who lived here first on turtle island we have to do it now that s what i think posted in settlers settlers in canada tagged canada first nations idle no more indigenous inuit settlers treaties 1 comment julia gillard feminist freedom fighters posted on october 31 2012 by elizabeth reply from green left weekly monday october 29 2012 socialist alliance activist and feminist liah lazarou gave the speech below to adelaide s reclaim the night rally on october 26 i d like to say a big thank you to the reclaim the night collective for organising this important event and everybody who is here tonight to reclaim the streets and to fight against the violence and sexism women face on a daily basis tonight is our night to unite as women and to bring attention to the struggles of our sisters mothers aunts cousins grandmothers and the structural oppression that is so embedded in our everyday lives tonight has come in a really interesting time it has come when the recent political landscape has been suddenly concerned with the language of feminism no more evident than when julia gillard proclaimed tony abbott a misogynist something i m sure many of us were delighted to finally see and hear and a message that spoke to many of us tony abbott the misogynist called out in parliament for what he really is but what was hardly reported was that on the same day the senate passed through a new law cutting single parent payments by between 56 and 150 a week which will mostly affect women women from the already marginalised sections of our society and putting them more at risk of violence as a single mother myself i was outraged at this blatant contradiction because further entrenching poverty is violence against women so when we rejoice at julia gillard s speech against sexism let us take it for what is really is fighting against sexism is not about making one speech in parliament and in the same day attacking some of the most vulnerable women in our society the reason julia gillard was able to make that speech was because of the feminist movements of the past it was because of the feminist freedom fighters who came before us and who struggled and fought for women s liberation women have been saying for a long long time that discrimination against women and sexism does not just exist in a bubble we are subject to oppressive gender norms at all levels of society and it is completely institutionalised in the home the workforce the media the judiciary religious and educational institutions and of course in parliament today women still only earn 82 of a males wage the majority of unpaid work is done by women most sexual violence is perpetrated by men against women 1 in 3 women will experience intimate partner violence in her life time violence is the leading contributor to death disability and illness of women aged 15 to 44 years in victoria the police don t take women s claims of violence and harassment seriously and that most rape cases that go to court don t end up with a conviction on the back of the horrific jill meagher crime and the recent murder of a young south australian woman by her partner we have seen rising concerns around rape and male violence reigniting public concern around women s safety but more cctv cameras will not stop violence against women male violence begins in the home in the institution of the family the cornerstone of class society which treats women like property allowing them to be owned used and exploited this is where our first conceptions of sexism are learned and this is reinforced by the sexualisation and objectification of women and girls and by our sexist corporate media for decades we have been sold the myth that feminism is no longer relevant that we have gained equality we know this to be false we know that this is false and that it works to stifle our voices and our ability to be organised and fight back a new study on violence against women conducted over four decades in 70 countries reveals the mobilisation of feminist movements is more important for change than the wealth of nations left wing political parties or the number of women politicians so the onus is on us it is up to us to keep coming out on the streets and to create a strong feminist movement feminism is not just about calling out sexism we need a feminism which makes real demands we need to create a feminist movement that aspires for real change which challenges the exploitation and oppression of women and of all people by the wealthy minority and the system which profits from our suffering solutions will come from women coming together educating and organising towards this end for there is nothing more empowering than the act of solidarity and women involved in collective action together unity is strength until we have created a world where we are not attacked abused and discriminated against because of our gender where gender is irrelevant and we are recognised with respect as human beings our struggle continues until there is no wage gap until we have complete control over our bodies until the police and the judicial system takes domestic violence and sexual assault seriously until there are adequate facilities for all women in need until there are compulsory education programs against violence until we create a culture where men are taught to respect women until we do not invade other countries and kill our sisters until no refugee is locked in detention centres until our indigenous sisters have their culture respected and true land rights until we have a safe climate future and our global sisters are no longer the victims of the big polluters who are destroying the earth and its ecosystems and until there is no more violence in the street and in the home until then our struggle continues but i believe that if we fight we can win posted in feminism violence against women tagged feminism julia gillard politics sexism violence against women women leave a comment help us lay this burden down posted on march 8 2011 by elizabeth reply i just can t think of a better way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of international women s day than with this posted in music video women tagged glory hallelujah 100years international women s day iwd music odetta song video leave a comment feminism and the f word posted on march 7 2011 by elizabeth reply my response to cbc s documentary the f word who wants to be a feminist is up at rabble ca here s a bit one of the framing questions asked by the film is where did feminism go wrong in getting to the answer the film outlined some of the goals and objectives of second wave feminism but if this means the status quo is represented as the answer to the question of where feminism went wrong the answer will focus only on the shortcomings of the second wave there would be something to be grateful for here too if the documentary makers had focussed on those failures in their socio economic and political context the pressures of neoliberalism over the last two decades have led to the marginalization of many liberation movements feminism is just one of them the critical issue for contemporary movements is to understand how that happened and of course that means critical analysis of the goals and strategies of the movements themselves but the exclusion of this type of context in the documentary rendered it inaccurate unhelpful and defeatist did the doc at least get its history of the canadian second wave right absolutely not check it out here and judy rebick in 1911 the first international women s day marches were held across europe a few days later on march 25 146 immigrant women were killed in the triangle factory fire because the bosses locked the doors from the outside russian socialist alexander kollentai proposed that the next year iwd would honour these women and the theme of iwd became bread and roses and the date march 8 at the time most women workers in canada were domestic or textile workers as soon as they got married or pregnant they were fired they made up to 80 less than men for the same job so the demand for bread was obvious as the song bread and roses which has become an anthem of the women s movement says hearts starve as well as bodies give us bread but give us roses the rose is a powerful symbol of the female and of love that symbol comes not only from its beauty but also from its tenacity the rose bushes in my garden still have leaves on them in early winter and they bloom almost until the frost the rest is here posted in canada feminism women tagged the f word who wants to be a feminist canadian feminism cbc doc zone feminism international women s day iwd judy rebick rabble leave a comment give yourself a slap upside the head canada posted on february 6 2011 by elizabeth 1 updated below in these days of action for democracy in egypt canada once again finds itself on the wrong side of humanity s hope for freedom thanks to his harperness failure to condemn the brutal totalitarian regime of hosni mubarak in that context i hope everyone watches this update and just to clarify that the bone i m picking is with the state of israel and not all of israel s people watch this too posted in canadian politics israel religion tagged al jazeera anti semitism avi lewis canada egypt hosni mubarak israel israel lobby stephen harper 1 comment grieve christina with care posted on january 9 2011 by elizabeth 4 christina taylor greene born at 12 50 p m on september 11 2001 died at 10 10 a m on january 8 2011 dear christina i wanted to talk to you before you become a face on plastic amulets in our convenience stores before the struggle over the meaning of your birth life and death becomes a fight over political territory i know i am appropriating your birth and death for myself i do it with good intentions and in the hope that it would make you happy you were born in a moment of your nation s despair hatred fear and rage you knew none of that but you as all of us have lived in its grip for your whole life it sounds as though your family didn t let it hold you too hard you were life for them when their country people focussed on death you were beauty and innocence and little doubt hope someone even put your face in a book called faces of hope so you became a symbol for a larger circle of people than those who knew you and nurtured you that circle has failed you christina perhaps against our own wills we allowed your birth and the nourishment of your young life to be overtaken by our own selfish wishes for revenge our desire to take back our own innocence by force by our anger and rage and childishness we moved from the terrible day of your birth too quickly forgetting to mourn forgetting what mourning means we stayed in our rage and bitterness too long and polluted your environment so that it could no longer sustain you we are famous for making this kind of mistake in the time since you were born we have killed many children like you we thought we were doing that to protect you so that you could grow up whole and strong and give us those gifts i see in your eyes we forgot how easily and quickly we could destroy those gifts if we didn t prepare ourselves to accept them we grew scabs over the pain caused us on the day of your birth but they were scabs made of fear and a need for retribution and they allowed poisons to fester beneath them we allowed our wounds to become fuel for violence we have spent years spitting at each other for all that i am against war and for peace people have felt my spit on their faces too i have been in such a rage about the killing i know i am part of what killed you yesterday you went to hear and see congresswoman gabrielle giffords because you were interested in the workings of government and your curiosity caused a neighbour to invite you to meet her your interest your neighbour s interest in you these are such good things but we didn t give you a good or safe place to explore your interests and curiosities we gave you adults shouting inanities back and forth we gave you insulting and hurtful and painful chatter we made fun of people who called the rhetoric hurtful and insulting we gave you words as weapons and vehicles to carry the poison of those festering injuries we sustained back on the day you were born and long before that i m not a romantic or an idealist christina it s become very difficult to say the words all you need is love and be taken seriously perhaps because we have never really understood what we meant when we said those 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