I am a woman, and i am a feminist! i work with women from mining communities in Tanzania and i am angry. In the past few days i have been assessing myself if i am angry enough to effect change, i do not have a clear answer yet... i am still reflecting.
I have been talking with women i work with about different issues in mining sector in Tanzania, and my observation is... Women are not angry enough. Most of them would say "The state is very powerful and we cannot change, or the mining companies have BIG money and any other loads of excuses, but if we were angry, very angry, and very constructively angry, we would look forwad and continue with questioning the POWER.
The power that give the same mining corporations our resources and remain silent when they abuse us. The power that use our money, our bodies, our resources, our children, our families and manipulate our economy for their own benefit.
We are POLITELY angry, and being politely angry will not bring the change we want.We need to re- direct our anger towards the system. for the cause we have been believing in. JUSTICE and EQUALITY. We have done our fair share of protecting our land, and natural resources, and environment, and our bodies, and our economy and so many more you can name the rest, but we need to do more, go further than looking at our being women or men but shaming those who stand on our way!
Lets be angry enough to change what is not right!
If you are not angry, you can not see the injustices and and inequalities... lets get out of our comfort zones and be the change we want to see
ReplyDeleteDespite women significance in mining sector, women receive minimal attention by researchers, development programs, policy makers and governments, there is rarely very little quantification of how mining impacts on women and children, they are suffering . There is no clear segregation of the benefits of the sector while Laws and policies provide no avenue for voices of women in the sector ." Real we are not angry enough "
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