New
book! Edited by Nina López of
the Global Women’s Strike
which organized the 2004/2005 US & European tours of Nora Castañeda.
Book contains excerpts from tour.
Women
– the starting point of revolution in Venezuela
President Chávez has said: ‘To abolish poverty we must give power to the poor.’ Women, who are 70% of the poor, have made themselves the starting point of change.
The extraordinary Women’s Development Bank (Banmujer) is part of the process of revolutionizing Venezuela’s economy: promoting grassroots self-activity backed by the oil revenue.
Its president, Nora Castañeda, describes how Banmujer is providing a path-breaking framework for building a movement which is ‘creating an economy at the service of human beings.’
She also describes what it was like during the reversal of the 2002 US-backed coup. ‘Grassroots women had gained so much with the revolution that to lose it would have been unbearable. The coup was like the loss of a precious loved one: we were in mourning but ready to fight.’
Nora
Castañeda:
roots and revolution
Castañeda is an economist – with a difference. Dedicated to grassroots women, to anti-racism and to Marx, she has been in the movement all her life.
Castañeda is an advocate of Article 88 of the Bolivarian constitution which recognizes housework as an economic activity that produces wealth and welfare: 'the most important work humanity does.’
As Selma James says in her introduction:
‘Those of us immersed
in the movement need to know how they’re doing it in Venezuela so we can
learn from them what we have to do wherever we are. She is a fantastic
spokeswoman for the revolution and for women everywhere.’
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