LIDARITY PROJECTS
For three years GABRIELA has been extremely active in One Billion Rising, using the tools and platform
year-round to amplify their calls demanding an end to poverty and to all the neoliberal policies that
keep poverty, economic violence and exploitation in place; demanding an end to militarization, mining, sex and human trafficking, electronic violence, and labor export policies that force 6000 Filipinos
a day (80% of whom are women) to leave the Philippines and work abroad as domestic workers,
nannies, and caregivers; demanding an end to the foreign intervention of the US and the Visiting
Forces Agreement; demanding an end to contractualization of workers and demanding higher wages and work benefits; and demanding an end to commercialization of education, of privatization of
social services, of home demolitions, and plunder of the environment. While GABRIELA’s service work
is a distinct task to provide and address the concrete and immediate needs of women, it also serves to
support advocacy work and organize women in asserting their rights. This is especially relevant for the
campaigns on women’s health, violence against women, and women’s political rights.
HONOR THE EARTH (NORTH AMERICA)
Honor the Earth is a Native-led organization established to address the needs of the Native environmental movement. Their work includes highlighting the link between the extractive industries,
pipelines, and sexual exploitation in the North Dakota region. In the past decade there has been
an accelerated expansion of extreme extraction in the Athabasca River Basin (tar sands) and the
Northern Plains (fracking). The man camps created by the fracking boom increase
exponentially the sex trafficking of women, girls and boys, and Native peoples
are affected disproportionately.
In the past year, activists have traveled to the Bakken fields in Mandan,
Hidatsa and Arikara territories, North Dakota, to highlight what is happening
to Native women and men as a consequence of extreme extraction, alongside raising awareness of the environmental impacts of violence against
Mother Earth from fracking. White Earth Reservation is a key location for
the trafficking of women from the cities to the Bakken. As of now, there
is almost no protection for these women. They will continue to work
in White Earth, other communities throughout Ojibwe country and the
great lakes region, and significantly, in the Bakken—the Three Affiliated
Tribes territory.
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