Bolivia: Statement from the Mujeres Creanda (ca)
From Worker
Date Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:06:39 +0200 (CEST)


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From: Mujeres Creando

Comrades, for the respect which the international solidarity merits, we wish to clarify that Maria Galindo was arrested for several hours on Monday 13th October after a personal action of occupying the empty offices of the Public Defender, following which she was released.
We appreciate the concern and international solidarity which we are sure will be forthcoming should any of the many other members of the Mujeres Creando ever need it. Thank you.

Mujeres Creando was formed as a feminist struggle movement in solidarity with our people, not as a group of artists for individualist actions or self-promotion, though they without doubt also have their value, but Mujeres Creando is a space for the construction of community, within the global vision of our native people.

Since the beginning of the unrest in the city of El Alto on Wednesday 8th, Mujeres Creando as a movement decided to join in the fight and mobilization in the streets, without any self-promotion either by the group or its members, united shoulder to shoulder with the people.
That has been the case since then, fully united with the people, our people, who have always planned pacific actions in the occupation of the streets.
The provocation came from the organs of repression, the only dead soldier is thought to have been killed by the military because he refused to shoot, the silence of the military in this
respect confirms this hypothesis to us.

We have also set up a study group among the women who are participating in the neighbourhood struggles. On Wedneday 15th, the middle class of La Paz, formerly the ideological and social pillar of the present President, started a hunger strike; on the one hand the popular sectors, the barricades, the neighbourhood groups took a supporting stance, but on the other hand
distrusted it as [the hunger strikers] received immediately all the attention of the mass media, due to their connections with the powers that be. Meanwhile, the people, who form the basis of these protests to recover their natural resources, had to spend over a month protesting, with 68 dead and more than 300 injured, in order to get the national and international mass media to hear their case.

Food is needed at the moment, and for that reason we request humanitarian support in the form of foodstuffs, medicines and blankets for the comrades still in El Alto but headed for La Paz to occupy the streets, and those peasants, syndicalists, miners, native people etc. from different parts of the country. The shortages we are experiencing in the neighborhoods, the food situation, is very serious... this is the concrete support that we need now.

In order to get that aid here, collect foodstuffs and have it sent via the International Red Cross - which itself will need to be pressurized into dealing with us.

We send our greetings, and are sure that our people will get back their resources for them to be used by us and by our sons and daughters.


Lidia Gisbert Quispe
Fortunata Escobar
Julieta Paredes


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