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To distract us from what you know


long ago gave up the healthy habit of surrender to the rally of my friends in my posts, but I can not recommend you stop the chronic Anderson wrote in his Izagirre blog during his trip to Bolivia.

I think most of you know who Anderson (San Sebastián, 1976), journalist and travel writer I knew that Lucia following send us read his wonderful career (and literally hot) book Basements world. Three years later I can boast to my friends, both bloggers and earthly.

Thanks to your blog, have been participants in their wanderings in Bolivia. We had even felt it, or at least intuit what he felt. I imagined him dazed but very funny amid the din of popular assemblies , deeply dismayed to know Abigail, a teenager of 14 years working in the mines under exploitative conditions, enjoying a football game funny indigenous women ... Whole emotional earthquake I hope we can count on at length when he recovers.

While we wait to see published reports in the press, I leave you with the history of these players give tit Guarani between goal and goal. I like it because, while denouncing the plight of the Guarani women, it is especially their ability to organize, illusions and enjoy. The photo also pulled the journalist Daniel Burgui , Ander travel companion, who has the game and more in his blog .

To distract us from what you know

The game between the teams and Boyuibe Urundaiti delayed a few minutes: Susana, one of the players, is behind the corner breast feeding your baby ( behold this picture of Dani ).

Susana, Guarani 25-year-old mother of six, finally jumps to the field and settled on the edge of his area, where it will pass or a ball the whole game: a central defender impassable. The field is a vast expanse of land irregular, clear in the middle of the village Urundaiti Guarani in the Bolivian Chaco.

( More photos of the party, also Dani ).

The party suffered another slight delay: Coach Carlos says that three of the players Urundaiti are pregnant and should not participate. Reorganization of the team. Some obese women about 35 years wear the kit and take the field in place of pregnant women. Beside them women play 25 or 26 years with half a dozen children each and up to a 14-year-old has also been nursing her baby a few minutes before the game.

Computers and games are organized by Momim (Movement of indigenous women in the world), a partnership led by the inexhaustible Margoth Segovia, who has spent years fighting to improve the lives of women in the Chaco. In a society such as Guarani, which according Margoth is extremely sexist, and whose families often work as bonded to large landowners in the area, women have little opportunity to develop any trade or any hobby. There are plenty of abuse, alcoholism, men, violence in homes, abandoned women with lots of children or the total subordination to husbands. Even those who do not have those problems have little time for anything else to look after the children and keep house.

"We gather to enjoy all sports together Margoth says the players of both teams, in the little speech before the game. It is not played to death. We want lasting friendship, respect and solidarity among all of us. Playing sports to distract us from what you know.

English Dr. Pilar Mateo (inventor of a special paint that kills vinchucas, transmission of Chagas disease) and Margoth Segovia led a partnership in offering courses to teach trades to women, offer legal advice on domestic problems and so they know their rights, organized a weekly radio program and to organize football tournaments.

Yobinka Guzman Boyuibe team goalkeeper, has 29 years, four children and an adopted nephew at home. Every day she gets up at six o'clock, gives milk to her little boy of 2 years, prepares breakfast for the older children and goes to work: is a teacher in a school in the village Guarani Pueblo Nuevo, which serves children from 2 to 4 years. At noon prepares food for his family and arranged for the children to go to school in the afternoon. Then take several hours to clean the clothes and the house. And at night go to the football team training.

"I sleep as if dead," he says, laughing.

(Goals and best plays, pregnant women who dream of giving birth in time to participate in the Donosti Cup 2010 and the player who suffocated in a tit cold calls break to breastfeed her baby will appear in the report that I hope to publish more or less soon).

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prostitution, hypocrisy and Immigration Law

is the title of the article of opinion that I have posted, for now, Gipuzkoa News Journal and Women in Red. In Public have summarized it out as a letter to readers. I have the hope that somewhere out more in Euskera. Hope you like it and we debate.

prostitution, hypocrisy and

Immigration Law by June

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NAS sordid and degrading photos posted the last week by a leading English newspaper that showed scenes of explicit sex in the heart of Barcelona have reopened the debate on how institutions must act of prostitution. A necessary debate, but unfortunately, is being treated as a mere problem of public order. What worries the public is not the situation of multiple discrimination, invisibility and violations in which women live, mostly illegal immigrants, prostitutes, but their neighborhoods are interspersed with scenes look marginal.

Euskadi is no stranger to this debate. Bilbao City Council, for example, has spent months preparing an ordinance municipal likeness of Barcelona. The goal, once again, not to protect illegal immigrants of Nigerian women who offer sexual services in the streets of our city, but keep them dispersed and hidden (which makes the public health intervention with them) to prevent tarnish the image of villa.

But the pictures of Barcelona have also served to reopen the appellant discussion between passes if the final solution to abolish or regulate prostitution. Those pushing to empty the streets of women engaged in prostitution claim the latter. In our view, however, the abolition versus regulation debate has been overtaken by social reality. It makes no sense to speak of regulation when about 90% of prostitutes are immigrants, and almost all practicing in the street are in an irregular situation.

Currently, the only viable way of adjustment for any immigrant is the social roots, which requires proof of continuous residence in the English state for three years and submit an employment contract. Corbacho Minister has reduced almost to zero the other way, the source of recruitment, and unlikely to interpret that prostitution is a difficult job that requires coverage of a Foreign labor. That is, that a prostitute could should be regularized first three years living without papers and make an offer of paid employment, to work in a club. "You can not make autonomous? Just look at the requirements for an immigrant qualifies for the status of independent work to understand it is completely unworkable.

Ultimately, however much they legalize the activity, the sector would still immersed in the underground economy: the owners of the clubs would continue profiting at the expense of workers in irregular status, duty-free option of self-employed. If the president of Madrid Esperanza Aguirre says he does not go for regular prostitution "is hypocritical, since In our view it is hypocritical to ignore that this option would not improve the situation of the vast majority of prostitutes because of a regulatory framework that discriminates against immigrants in all areas of your life.

The conclusion is clear: if something these women are victims, as well as gender inequalities, is of the Aliens Act, which reduce their employment options in the most precarious and alienating, like prostitution and domestic work. Is usually aimed at the Mafia to justify the actions against prostitution, and are noted as the source of the problem. In our opinion, organized crime merely to take advantage of the situation generated by the shielding of borders to prevent women migrant self undertake a project, the yields of these sexual networks.

What's more, including the National Anti-Trafficking Plan adopted last year recognizes that trafficked women fear being deported under the Immigration Law slows them to denounce their exploiters and abusers. The same plan, however, makes the protection of victims to cooperate with police, a condition that we find unacceptable and which shows the prosecution is still giving priority to the mafia, instead of giving priority to ensure the safety and basic rights of their victims.

Paradoxically, far from understanding the Aliens Act as a problem that compounds the problem of prostitution (controlled largely by the trafficking networks), political leaders and the mayor of Barcelona proposed as a solution to harden their application against the immigrants who practice it. In other words, as the police can not stop its activity, it is not illegal, it opens a deportation order to be irregular. The same politicians who claim to act against prostitution because it oppresses women proposed for them the double punishment of being expelled after being invisible in our society, royalty and exposed to physical health risks and emotional aggression and coercion related to the activity. On the other hand, refers to "save" when they ask these women is not anyone save their survival strategy they have chosen, but are recognized as citizens with equal voice and rights of local people.

Finally, while multiplying the messages that blame and stigmatize prostitutes, or others who pointed victimizers as ultimately responsible for sexual exploitation networks, calls attention than just quoting the other collective protagonist, without the that prostitution would disappear: the johns. Drawer is: there is no supply without demand. However, that demand not only still exists but is in great shape and even increasingly accepted as a sexual option in a society where everything is for sale, just waking thoughts.

what these kids think and feel no qualms young Westerners to enter the street with no rights for women relegated to the third category of citizen? Why if we accept that prostitution is a form of oppression against women does not point to the oppressors, the customers that fuel the business? I miss more awareness initiatives with a gender perspective that, given the frivolous idea of \u200b\u200b"whoring" as a leisure plan, to make men aware of their role when they decide to hire sex.

Ultimately, combining an anti-racist and feminist gaze appears indispensable for understanding the causes and elements that feed the prostitution and, therefore, to develop fair and effective policies to combat it.

* Member of SOS Racism

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Where are the vandals? Bad

Each time I have more clear that the gender perspective is essential to understanding virtually all social reality. The centennial of the feminist work has enabled much progress in analyzing the impact of different policies, trends, etc.. on women. The Equality Act Basque even urged that any action by the Basque institutions to measure the different effects it will have on women and men.

However, the part of men is very green. Industrial accidents, drugs, violence in general, pedophilia (this deserves a separate post) ... There are many problems with man's face, closely related to the values \u200b\u200bon which male identity is constructed. While that is still not recognized, it will be impossible to articulate effective policies.

's companion men's movement for equality has Bacete Ritxar an essential first step, naming the press the relationship between youth violence and the construction of male identity. What does showing that while we searched dozens of sociological explanations of what happened in the riots of Lekeitio and Pozuelo de Alarcón, nobody noticed a reality so obvious and overwhelming, that all young people both in Bizkaia and in Madrid was spent cops chasing pump and causing damage were men. I hope you enjoy his article, published today Deia and Diario de Noticias de Gipuzkoa , and we discuss it.

Where are the vandals? A feminist look at Pozuelo de Alarcón Lekeitio

Imagine a research team from the University of Venus was found Sunday night, chances of the cosmos, making a comparative study of the habits and customs of the people of Pozuelo de Alarcón and Lekeitio. When it comes to an anthropological analysis, figure out what excites me or do the aliens and try to harness the power of alienation of someone coming from far away and not in the habit of normalizing the gross insolence always involves violence. The research group would have encountered alien juveniles in detention, violence, injuries, attacks on police, smashing, strong sexist insults, police charges, burning cars and containers? How would you explain what happened?

If guided by the opinions and theories Earthlings managed by specialists (street, academia or politics), the twins find displays of violence-Alarcón Lekeitio have been motivated by excessive alcohol intake, the "climate political ", over the welfare of youth, rebellion against the established order, lack of education limits the crisis, unemployment, violation of right to self botellonero or leisure?

Vizcaya Mayor linked the brawl to the "barbarism and violence inflicted by radicals" and " global warming that the country has suffered during the summer, "while his counterpart in Madrid attributed the riots to" a group of lunatics out "and pointed that the riots were" an isolated incident. "we know too well that global warming has little to do with violent options each (which are his alone, free and non-transferable) and hardly an event featuring more than 200 youth can be an isolated event. One commentator has pointed to the economic crisis as a key factor to understand what happened, something difficult to explain in one of the municipalities with higher income per capita in the state. A nineteenth-century sociologist talks mustache Alcohol and Mr. Urra, former Ombudsman for Children and José Antonio Marina, the importance of following the serious events are known punishments, so that other young people are encouraged to do the same.

may Venusians one of the researchers, dissatisfied with these explanations, asked: "How many women were arrested? How many protagonists of the violence and why men are the vast majority of people both in Euskadi in Madrid are the protagonists of violence and why over 90% of persons convicted of crimes are men? " And the greatest epistemological turn would when asked: "Is that the planet Earth, women are in danger of extinction?"

My goal with this little literary license is to propose a feminist twist to our attention that allows us to notice the obvious but invisible. How is it that in any gathering mentioned something so obvious as in the images of both incidents and arrests in the list there are only female presence? Why not there? Is that on Sunday night the women spent the holidays and stayed home?

In our society, the legitimation of violence is still persisted as a central element in the construction of masculine identities. No doubt, understanding and treating explain any social phenomenon is highly complex and not be simplified, but gives me what I think and generates unease that the link between masculinity and violence is denied, concealed or invisibilice systematically. Sure delegitimize violence at all levels would put on the wound, questioning the strange, poisonous, invisible patriarchal root which continues to support our reality, both in the social and the personal sphere.

If Lekeitio-Pozuelo events have been led by young Romanians, SSA, "transvestite", "whores" in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwithout papers or anti, the diagnosis would be clear: "Were the others." Our static cultural codes, our enzymes simplifications of reality, are full of prejudice everyday give us quick answers and comfortable like that. But once again, the problem is in the "we" as "normal" and "our" as in life, go. And that normalcy is structured on the basis of sexism, and the allocation of roles and different expectations for men and women. We can not and must escape from this debate, because what happened in Lekeitio-Pozuelo is faceless, gender bias and role: it is ultimately a consequence of the hegemonic model of masculinity. And to show an ethnographic button: You know that you shouted at the policemen who were trying to hide one of the men who recorded the incident in Pozuelo? "Gay, who are all about homosexuals." No comments.

However, gender analysis does not appear on official releases and is invisible in the gatherings. So, ignore the lowest common denominator in both situations: young men use violence against people and things. The persistence of male violence is a verifiable fact both quantitatively and qualitatively. Why does not investigate, you name and put light on the mechanisms that make some young men choose on a personal and collective violence? What fails? What's behind? Why do not generalize equality policies aimed at promoting change in men towards more egalitarian and peaceful? As Simone de Beauvoir wrote in The Second Sex, "not born a woman, is done." With men, young and Pozuelo Lekeitio, same thing happens: they are made. That is the question we should ask: Why is our society continues to produce men who believe a legitimate use of violence?

Any act of violence, to be exercised by supposedly noble motives, needs a legitimating discourse, "the police charged," I'm depressed "," drank "," Young attacked first, "" no future "," we need more iron fist. "Gandhi is often remembered as an alternative to this trend, but it strikes me that perhaps an even better antidote to build peaceful relations, protest and caregivers between people are feminist theories and practices. In two centuries of struggle, feminists have transformed the world, making it better, without burning containers or spilling a single drop of blood.

* Anthropologist and Social Worker. Member of the Movement of Men for Equality