V-Day Annual Report 2017 - RISE FOR WOMEN WORKERS 1 | Page 49

GRASSROOTS-LED RISINGS
Grassroots women all over the world led the Risings with
their demands for jobs, wages, food, land, healthcare,
peace, justice, equality, dignity, respect, safety, violence
free communities – and a RIGHT TO LIFE.
They highlighted the fight to end violence against
women to include rising against PATRIARCHY,
MISOGNYNY, CAPITALISM, NEO-LIBERALISM, RACISM,
DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA, NEO-FASCISM,
IMPERIALISM – and all forms of violence based on
exploitation rooted in class, race, and gender.
The collusion of these systems is what has created
dominating, oppressive, and exploitative situations
everywhere on the planet, affecting women in particular.
Grassroots women are rising against joblessness,
homelessness, contractualization, lowering of minimum
wage, privatization, displacement from wars and
militarization, police brutality and state violence, human
and sex trafficking – all outcomes of a global system
that has plunged most of the world into economic crisis
and worsened the situation of women.