In 2000 our marching feet and voices reverberated in a way seldom seen by the women's movement. By using the simple, but tried and true recipe of providing women with the opportunity to talk together, tell our stories and find the common thread that unites us in action. Each of us participated in this process during the past few years. The main reason for marching was to increase the influence of the analysis underpinning our desire to redefine the political, social and economic rules that govern us. Feminism is a way of thinking, a social movement, an alternative and another perspective from which to understand the world.
Feminism is more than simply observing inequality and obtaining access to positions of power.
We want feminism to be part of the progression towards a just, equitable and peaceful world. Within the protest movement that has grown in reaction to globalization we have the ideal opportunity to restate the importance of our analysis. We must take advantage of the small opening available to us right now. We have the chance as a movement to take our place in this wave of protest and build bridges as others have before us, because capitalism and patriarchy march hand in hand when it comes to generating exclusion. If we wish to stop the harm caused by globalization, we must address both these systems of exploitation and we must speak about racism because globalization is simply one more channel for spreading inequality.