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Feminist Collective [20 May 2007|07:25pm] As violence against women increases on a massive scale across the globe, as sea levels rise and the climate is thrown into chaos by masculine science, as women, children, animals, and our sacred earth are treated as commodities which can be bought and sold, used and abused by men, for male conceived ideas of profit, the need for feminist ideas, spirit and action is more important than ever. It is not safe to be a woman in any home, in any street, in any workplace, in any country of this world. Our feminist struggle is not over, it has only just begun. Women are at the forefront of all movements for social and environmental justice. It is time that we reclaim our participation in these movements as feminist. It is time that we recognise the central role of patriarchy as the bedrock ideology which has lead to the systematic devastation of community and environment by neo-liberal globalisation. It is time to hold our ‘left’ male leaders to account for failing to acknowledge this. While male violence continues to be the main cause of death, injury and illness for women both locally and globally, we will continue to be feminist. While violent men continue to be valourised, and objectified images of women continue to be consumed, we will continue to be feminist. While pornography, prostitution and sadomasochistic sex continue to be sold to us as evidence of our liberation, we will continue to be feminist. While teenage girls in ‘Third World’ countries slave away in sweatshop conditions to produce consumables for Western greed, we will continue to be feminist. While any woman anywhere suffers from the insidious nature of patriarchal ideology and male supremacy, we will continue to be active. Come along to the Feminist Collective every first and third Sunday of the month at The Women’s Library (behind the Newtown Library on Brown St, Newtown). The first meeting will be held on Sunday 3rd of June 2007 @ 2pm. **With specific acknowledgement to our indigenous sisters whose courageous resistance to white invasion continues to this day. This land has never been ceded. It is stolen land. We acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Iora Nation as the traditional custodians of the land we inhabit.** 2 comments|post comment

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