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11th of DECEMBER DEMONSTRATION-VARIETÉ in MADRID.

Posted by the karakola invites you... on November 15, 2004, 3:20 pm
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SEPPUR SI MUOVE!
Dear Friends,
As many of you already know, over two years ago the Eskalera Karakola
launched a project to recuperate and rehabilitate the building it presently
occupies in order to build a Feminist Social Center. Now the charges
pressed by the owner of the building leave us little room for maneuver and
will soon put an abrupt end to this project: the trial is on the 14th of
December, and to take part in it we would have to pay 25,000 euros.
Logically enough we don¹t have this money, and for this reason among others,
we will not have justice. No doubt we would lose anyway. The City
Administration, despite our efforts to open a process of negotiation to
resolve the conflict, has not formulated any concrete commitments though
they have made all kinds of useless gestures. We keep on tugging.
We are talking about a relocation which would permit the continuation of
this initiative. We also don¹t want to abandon the idea of Embajadores 40,
the current building. We don¹t want to renounce what we believe to be just.
As we always say: perpetuating vital projects is a question of political
will. The eviction of the Eskalera Karakola, in any case, is a great
paradox.
Because in the Administration they are talking a great deal about ³major
advances² in the situation of women: they talk about parity, reconciliation,
equality, emancipation. They talk about how we just have to ³take one step
forward² because, they say, we have already come all this way on that long
path from the caves to here. Alright, they say, one more step and that¹s
enough.
But this path goes through the victimization, domestication and
disempowerment of women. Women, yes, but as victims, as objects of
assistanceS As subjects, collective feminist subjects, then no. When we are
autonomous no, when we leap into the public sphere and make demands no, as
interlocutors definitely no. When we speak and construct living movements,
then the public powers respond: invisibilization, instrumentalization,
capture, cutting of subventions, eviction. When we say: domination does not
disappear, it changes, adopting new forms: the increasing precariousness of
existence, reconciliation but only by women, legal racism, spectacularized
violence, crisis of care, sexual normalization in consumption, daily global
warsS all of that NO.
But feminism is not just an institutional instrument. And the path we are
traveling doesn¹t end, it transforms on shifting ground, and not necessarily
for the better.
The 11th of DECEMBER we want to rupture these contradictions. We want to
make visible all the networks which we weave every day, creating feminism
from our potency. We want to express the excess that we are for power. The
excess that maintains a living movement, that doesn¹t allow itself to be
trapped, that is irreducible and functions both inside and outside and in
the margins of institutions, in spaces of autonomy. We want to reconquer
and celebrate our capacity to make active decisions as political subjects,
subjects of a living feminism, not an assisted one.
The 11th of DECEMBER we want to take the street, see if we are capable of
articulating that old desire to create many 8 of March, because we are here
and we have a lot to say. Occupy the public space of Madrid. All the
women¹s groups (and their friends). Construct a scenario from our own
plurality and from our differences. We would like for each group to bring
its own slogans, its own demands and proposals. Because the eviction of the
Karakola is more than just the Karakola: it is the contradiction within
which we find ourselves every day in all our political activities.
May the 11th of DECEMBER be a mark of feminist visibility, a political tool
to erupt into the daily life of this city. And a bid of this kind means
nothing without all of you. We want to invite you, in complicity, to
construct this day together: those of you that are here and those of you
from other places. That you come to Madrid to take the streets, to bid for
the feminism which we are already inventing every day.
S and many thanks to all of you for being there.
DEMONSTRATION-VARIETÉ in MADRID.
SATURDAY 11 DECEMBER 2004. 19.00h
WOMEN¹S PARTY in THE ESKALERA KARAKOLA
c/embajadores 40, 21.00h
LUNCH AND INFORMAL ENCOUNTER
SUNDAY 12 DECEMBER 15.00h
For those groups or individuals coming from outside Madrid: in order to
facilitate your stay, write to us at karakola@sindominio.net
There will be a center to sleep in (bring a sleeping bag) and/or houses in
which some people can stay. Even if you don¹t need help finding a place to
stay, please let us know if you are comingS
A feminist body in motion remains in motion unless acted upon by a brute
force which modifies or domesticates it
³SEPPUR SI MUOVE!²
www.sindominio.net/karakola