Mujeres de Negro Madrid

The last Sunday of the month in the Plaza Mayor (next to the horse statue) at 12:00 noon Women in Black invite you to a vigil in black and in silence. 30 NOVEMBER 2008 IN COMMEMORATION OF 25 NOVEMBER INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WOMEN IN BLACK AGAINST WAR – MADRID We declare the need and urgency for a culture of nonviolence based on the full exercise of the values of equality, liberty, pluralism, interdependence, shared responsibility, and, of course, Human Rights. AND WE DECLARE THAT: Gender violence affects us all, male and female, and for that reason, as feminist and anti-militarist women, we call on everyone to construct another way of seeing the world. TO THE END THAT VIOLENCE MAY NO LONGER SEEM FAMILIAR TO US!! Let us expel war from history and from our lives C/ San Cosme y San Damián, Nº 24, 2º 28012 – Madrid .................................................................................. 25 November INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR ...

The last Sunday of the month in the Plaza Mayor (next to the horse statue) at 12:00 noon Women in Black invite you to a vigil in black and in silence. 26 OCTOBER 2008 Following the III Week of Nonviolence in Iraq celebrated 10-18 October all over the country MADRID WOMEN IN BLACK AGAINST WAR Continue lending their support to the 120 organizations of the civil society that are members of the LaOnf Network and who work for peace. In Arabic LaOnf means La (no) Onf (violence). Let us expel war from history and from our lives C/ San Cosme y San Damián, Nº 24, 2º 28012 – Madrid ................................................................................. During the III Week of Nonviolence the LaOnf Network has declared: ♀ Their rejection of the occupation, both in the air and on land, as a means to build democracy and establish a State of Law in Iraq. ♀ The need for liberty and security for all Iraqis, so that they can freely exercise their right to vote during th...

Wednesday 15 October 2008, from 19:00h to 21:00h in the Puerta del Sol (Madrid), next to the statue of the bear and the tree Women in Black invite you to a vigil in black and in silence together with the INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN OF SOLIDARITY WITH NONVIOLENCE IN IRAQ Let us expel war from history and from our lives C/ San Cosme y San Damián, Nº 24, 2º 28012 – Madrid .................................................................................... INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN OF SOLIDARITY WITH NONVIOLENCE IN IRAQ From 10-19 October 2008 the III Week of Nonviolence in Iraq will be celebrated, organized by the LaOnf Network ( LaOnf means ”nonviolence” in Arabic) ♀ Various European and North American organizations will give their support to this initiative of the Iraqi civil society, which seeks to make known the nonviolent alternatives in their country. Some 120 organizations from all over Iraq and from all religious and ethnic communities are members of LaOnf . ♀ S...

Women in Black Against War (Madrid) In view of the assassinations in Colombia of a member of the Ruta Pacifica de Mujeres and of the International Network of Women in Black Olga Marina Vergara, her son, her daughter-in-law and five-year-old grandson, we call a vigil in black and in silence on Monday 29 September , from 18:00h to 19:00h in front of the Embassy of Colombia in Spain Pº Martínez Campos, nº 48 - 28010 Madrid To publicly declare: ♀ our support for the family and the women of the Ruta Pacifica de Mujeres ♀ our grief and rejection of the assassinations To deliver a letter to the Ambassador, Sr. Don Carlos Rodado Noriega, requesting: ♀ that these happenings be investigated and the motive determined ♀ that these assassinations not remain in impunity . Our interest is to establish a political and ethical commitment to draw an end to impunity and social permissiveness regarding violence against women, which is intensified in the conflict Colombia confronts”. ...

The last Sunday of the month in the Plaza Mayor (next to the horse statue) at 12:00 noon Women in Black invite you to a vigil in black and in silence. 28 SEPTEMBER 2008 On the occasion of the III Week of Non-violence in Iraq We declare our support for the 150 organizations of the civil society that work for peace as members of the LaOnf Network, (“non-violence” in Arabic: La = no; Onf = violence). WOMEN IN BLACK AGAINST WAR (of Madrid) convinced that peace can emerge only from within the civil society of Iraq and in a non-violent fashion, support the work of LaOnf. In view of this, we demand : ♀ that the government and civil society of Spain give support for the reconstruction of the civil society of Iraq and its peace initiatives . ♀ that the media draw attention to the courageous work of the social organizations that are promoting a non-violent Iraqi society . We issue a call for reason and solidarity, a call for peace, a call for non-violent struggle. There is hop...

The last Sunday of the month in the Plaza Mayor (next to the horse statue) at 12:00 noon Women in Black invite you to a vigil in black and in silence. 29 JUNE 2008 Commmemorating the June 28 Day of Lesbian and Gay Pride WOMEN IN BLACK AGAINST WAR (of Madrid) We request that sexual orientation be a choice and not an imposition. Sexuality is no more (or less) than a privileged form of communication, to which every woman has a right, “hetero” and “homo” alike. We declare: That we want to educate modern generations, without prejudices or moral hang-ups, prepared for social changes that imply progress in the development of human rights. “ The ethical position of the feminist movement and the movement for peace must be based on the right of every woman and every man to express publicly his or her diversity. ” (Women for Peace, 1995, Women in Black) Let us expel war from history and from our lives C/ San Cosme y San Damián, Nº 24, 2º 28012 – Madrid .........................

The last Sunday of the month in the Plaza Mayor (next to the horse statue) at 12:00 noon Women in Black invite you to a vigil in black and in silence. 25 MAY 2008 IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 24 MAY INTERNATIONAL DAY OF WOMEN AND PEACE For Women in Black, the naming of a woman to head up the Ministry of Defense does not, from a feminist point of view, signify an accomplishment, rather an acceptance of patriarchal values and one step further in the progressive militarization of society. WOMEN IN BLACK AGAINST WAR – MADRID Declare: ♀ It is both necessary and urgent to strengthen the work of education for peace from a gender perspective, which has as its goal the formation of a non-violent person who can attain fullest development and learn to resolve conflicts through negotiation. ♀ Urgent measures must be taken towards the eradication of research, production and sale of arms in order to to cease this commerce which feeds violence and conflicts that are destroying humanity....

The last Sunday of the month in the Plaza Mayor (next to the horse statue) at 12:00 noon Women in Black invite you to a vigil in black and in silence. 27 APRIL 2008 FACING THE ARMED CONFLICT IN COLOMBIA The armed conflict affects the lives of the people in a general way and has particular impacts on the lives of women and female adolescents and children in that the forms of gender discrimination and violence are exacerbated in the midst of the conflict. WOMEN IN BLACK AGAINST WAR (of Madrid) We ask for: ♀ The government of Spain to apply the conditionality clause regarding human rights in their treaties regarding commerce and trade. We reject all manner of military cooperation and agreements and sale of arms. ♀ The government of Colombia to put an end to the social militarization the country is experiencing and to fulfill its obligations and demonstrate the will to reach a humanitarian accord. ♀ The guerrillas to stop the utilization of kidnapping and sexual viola...

The last Sunday of the month in the Plaza Mayor (next to the horse statue) at 12:00 noon Women in Black invite you to a vigil in black and in silence. 30 MARCH CONFRONTING THE INCREASE IN RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA The European commission against racism and xenophobia indicates that both of these attitudes exist in Spain and that, in public discussion, arguments are used which in a general way create a negative aura surrounding immigration. WOMEN IN BLACK AGAINST WAR – MADRID invite you to a personal reflection on the attitudes and prejudices regarding immigration in order to be able to live within human diversity, respecting differences, inventing new ways of living together in harmony; learning to rise above the negative aspects that are part of all cultures, thus favoring inter-action and mutual enrichment. Let us expel war from history and from our lives C/ San Cosme y San Damián, Nº 24, 2º 28012 – Madrid ......................................................................

The last Sunday of the month in the Plaza Mayor (next to the horse statue) at 12:00 noon Women in Black invite you to a vigil in black and in silence. 24 FEBRUARY 2008 IN VIEW OF EL ENQUISTAMIENTO OF VIOLENCE IN BASQUE COUNTRY We denounce politics of violence and tension that move us further away of possibility of peace. WOMEN IN BLACK AGAINST WAR - FROM MADRID We declare our opposition to culture of violence from where the use of violence is defended as political tool and it is given an incentive to systematic hate. We denounce electioneering use of the conflict that through manipulation and harassing increases confrontation: is another way of violence. We always will affirm that peace is the way and between everybody must do possible the day which we expel violence and war of the history and of our life. C/ San Cosme y San Damián, Nº 24, 2º 28012 – Madrid .................................................................................. IN VIEW OF THE UNCONTROLL...

The last Sunday of the month in the Plaza Mayor (next to the horse statue) at 12:00 noon Women in Black invite you to a vigil in black and in silence. 27 JANUARY 2008 In commemoration of 30 January INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NO-VIOLENCE WOMEN IN BLACK AGAINST WAR - MADRID We want to build peace fighting for other society and proposing new models. We take part for values that lead us a social change, give us critical attitudes and staring in our social reality. We ask: ♀ a part of 68,68 millions of euros dedicated daily to the defense expenditure in Spain, would be assign, in 2008, to promotion of peace through education, defending and promotion of Human Rights. Let us expel war from history and from our lives C/ San Cosme y San Damián, Nº 24, 2º 28012 – Madrid .................................................................................... In commemoration of 30 January INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NO-VIOLENCE Women In Black against war, in the commemoration of Non-Violence ...