No feminist struggle without Gaza

From the women of Gaza to the feminist and revolutionary forces worldwide, as March 8th approaches, it represents a truly revolutionary occasion where the systems oppressing women, queers, and their intersectional issues can be confronted. Still, it also offers a litmus test for international anti-colonial feminism, as well as its ability to transform theoretical principles into tangible actions and utilize political activism as a tool to dismantle these oppressive systems.

Surrendering to the relentless Zionist killing machine is not an option. Therefore, this year’s March 8th must be seized as an opportunity for feminist and revolutionary escalation in support of Gaza and in support of its women and all diverse groups that constitute its social fabric. Therefore, we call upon you to join us in an urgent international action, declaring March 8th as a Global Strike Day for the Palestinian women of Gaza and their people, centring their stories, histories, and struggles as a driving force for action on this day.

We acknowledge that striking requires grassroots organisational action and a strategic timeline capable of achieving its goals of shaking the economies of capitalist-imperialist nations and their interests that support the massacres in Gaza. However, we also recognize that feminist protests will surge across cities globally, and we affirm our rejection of the domination of the voice of colonialism over these protests or the “feminist voices” that have exploited women’s rights and issues as fuel for the ongoing genocide in Gaza, justifying it and pinkwashing Israel’s crimes. We also reject their disregard and blindness to the bloodshed of Palestinian women.

We understand that the contexts of feminist action vary according to the oppression under which it blossoms. Hence, we do not confine this day’s activist efforts to the streets alone. Feminist resistance has devised multiple ways to connect the public sphere with the private, innovating new methods to link struggles with the conditions and contexts of women confined to their homes and under the military siege of occupation and tyranny.

This is our wager: that oppressed groups, confined within walls and stretched across oceans, continents, and barbed-wire borders, will unite to proclaim that both within our homes and on the streets, “Solidarity with Gaza is our means of resistance”. Breaking through the isolating and symbolic barriers with all that we possess, even if it’s merely a letter that defies colonialism.

Join us on March 8th and organise with us for a global strike that will shake the thrones of the patriarchal and colonial systems. Mobilize with us the revolutionary forces that are ready to take the lead in transforming this day into a revolt against patriarchy, genocide, capitalism, and colonialism by all means possible. Through protests, sit-ins, strikes from all forms of work, both paid and unpaid, boycotting purchases and daily activities that profit the economic system, call for an arms embargo on the Zionist entity, intensify efforts seeking to prevent and disrupt the supply of weapons to it, taking platforms to speak about the Palestinian women of Gaza, blogging and writing on social media, and spreading tweets, flyers, or images bearing messages of solidarity with Gaza. Let this day be an escalation in the struggle against the genocidal war on Gaza and the Zionist settler colonial project in Palestine. Join the strike and rattle the globe in the days ahead, spurring action and affirming the incontestable fact that there can be no feminist struggle without the women of Gaza.

No feminist struggle without Gaza

No future without Gaza

Web Link:

https://www.gazagroup.net/a-feminist-call-to-strike-for-gaza