JL ARGÜELLES ensures that attracted you to Femen feminist organization that was founded in 2008, its ability to "think and act with firmness".Asturian Lara Alcazar (1992) is today the leader in Spain. The activist was yesterday in Gijón, where he presented the book "Manifesto Femen", you just edit the Sheet Metal seal.
Why a manifesto of Femen and why the need to pick it up in a book?
Part of the need for a theoretical text, prepared jointly by activists of the countries where the movement is represented, to shape our ideology, mode of action and how we organize or finance.And, also, to briefly explain the history of the movement from its inception until now with its internationalization. It has two objectives: to give theoretical support to all supporters and information Femen people who do not yet know very well what our movement is based. And it is the way to leave a legacy for posterity, like other political, artistic and civil movements, to inspire other women.
They say in the book: "No doubt that a small group of women can change the world." Is not that a phrase too optimistic?
-The Feminist characterize us from our origin to be optimistic. Who would have said to the suffragettes, when they started their struggle, they conquer the vote for women. And who would have said to Clara Campoamor would be deputy. When fighting for something, you must believe, because otherwise you're already defeated. We believe in change and that can destroy patriarchy to make something new on the basis of equality.
-Afirman That "patriarchal institutions" are the enemy ...
They're patriarchal institutions because their heads are men and women are secondary, at your service. We talked about religion and especially of the three monotheistic beliefs: Islam, Christianity and Judaism. In his writings and moral codes you can watch override women. Another mechanism of oppression are dictatorships, where the woman is employed as machine gestation and relegated to the domestic sphere. The third enemy is the sex industry and sexual exploitation of women, one of the figures of the patriarchy. So it comes to women not only as objects but as slaves. It is a form of slavery that even in the twenty-first century, is socially accepted.
What meant by patriarchal ideology?
-The System is patriarchal oppression of one class to another, man on woman; that is, a man is born with certain privileges by social, economic, cultural or religious factors. Simone de Beauvoir said it many years ago: the woman is a second-class citizen compared with men. Even where there is supposed to equality, it is the proletarian woman and man, the bourgeois. It is a system that oppresses women.
Is it an ideology built with the complicity of women?
It's a complicity built by men; because no system exists that allows it.
-¿El Movement Femen has been conditioned by his birth in Ukraine, a former Soviet country?
I could have been born elsewhere, but the circumstances made it in Ukraine. He was born in a country where women suffer the consequences of poverty. The activists say that women in Ukraine have two options: be housewives and prostitutes. Crown feature flowers that show the activists is a symbol that originated in Ukraine, where single wore these crowns until they married; then the they kept their husbands. The symbol is a declaration of intent: no man can snatch us freedom.
Is there anything that differentiates Femen Spain?
We're a feminist international movement, with the same ideals. Now, each team plays at home in terms of problems and priorities.
His most visible action in Spain was starring in the Congress of Deputies in October 2013. The march was a success Gallardon?
-In The rest of Europe, when we made that protest, not much is known the campaign to stop the reform of the abortion law. There was a confluence of protests, such as the "Freedom Train", which started from Asturias. It was a victory not only for Femen, but the feminist movement.
-¿La Phrase "abortion is sacred" is a conviction or a provocation?
-both. We call holy what is inviolable, and the right to abortion is fundamental. But it is also, as characterizes Femen, a provocation through a short message.
'Why protests bare-chested?
-The Woman's body remains taboo. It tries to encode, discrimination, assault. Political naked Femen makes something, what we should not be ashamed. We show that there is no difference with men and that there is nothing morally wrong in the toples. You can not judge a woman by her body and do politics with him. We are activists, not exhibitionists.
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