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Saturday, December 01, 2012
December 1. World Aids Day
World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December every year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. (Wiki)
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Monday, March 10, 2008
Köln: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Förderung von Frauen
Bild: Peter Rakocyz
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Montag 10. März 2008
Talente und Potenziale liegen brach
VON CLAUDIA HAUSER, 09.03.08, 20:55h
BILD: RAKOCZY
Beim Internationalen Frauentag informierten im Rathaus unterschiedliche
Gruppen vor allem über Themen, die Migrantinnen betreffen.
Elisabeth ist 15, kommt aus dem Kongo und hat einen einfachen,
mädchenhaften Wunsch: 'Ich möchte mit 20 heiraten!' Das Foto, das die
Künstlerin Jane Dunker von ihr für die Ausstellung 'Innenwelten
Außenwelten' machte, zeigt Elisabeth deshalb im Brautkleid vor einer
Fototapete mit Strand und Palmen. 'Falls ich nicht heirate, habe ich
wenigstens ein Foto von mir im Brautkleid' , steht neben dem Bild. 17
Mädchen, die regelmäßig den interkulturellen Treff 'Lobby für Mädchen'
in Mülheim besuchen, zeigen über Bilder und Collagen, was sie sich
wünschen, wovor sie Angst haben und was sie berührt.
Die großformatigen Fotos waren beim Empfang zum Internationalen
Frauentag im Rathaus zu sehen, zu dem die Stadt unter dem Motto 'Frauen
International - Dialog der Kulturen. Wir feiern - Wir fordern'
eingeladen hatte. 'Niemand darf Frauen daran hindern, sich frei zu
entfalten und zu bilden', sagte Bürgermeisterin Elfi Scho-Antwerpes in
ihrer Eröffnungsrede. Vor allem um die Förderung von Mädchen und Frauen
mit Migrationshintergrund sollte es in den einzelnen Foren gehen. So
referierte Faize Berger über die Stärkung von multikulturellen
Unternehmerinnen, die Psychologin Azra Pourgholam-Ernst stellte das
Gesundheitserleben von Migrantinnen in den Fokus, außerdem wurde die
Chancengleichheit in Ausbildung, Bildung und Beruf diskutiert. Die
Ergebnisse der einzelnen Foren sollen in das Integrationskonzept der
Stadt einfließen. `In Köln leben 159 000 Frauen mit
Migrationshintergrund`, sagte Petra Engel, stellvertretende Leiterin des
Amtes für Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern. `Es wird dringend Zeit,
sie mehr ins Blickfeld zu rücken.` Engel findet es bedenklich, dass
einerseits die Erwerbsquote von Migrantinnen wesentlich geringer sei als
bei deutschen Frauen; die Beschäftigung der Frauen in privaten
Haushalten als Reinigungskraft oder Pflegerin aber deutlich zunehme.
`Die Talente und Potenziale dieser oft sehr gut ausgebildeten Frauen
liegen brach`, ergänzte Scho-Antwerpes.
Köln hat als erste deutsche Stadt 1982 eine Gleichstellungsstelle
eingerichtet - auch dieses Jubiläum sollte im Rathaus gefeiert werden.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
A Forward: A Letter from Feminists on the Election
A Letter From Feminists on the Election
The Nation Posted February 27, 2008 (March 17, 2008)
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080317/feminists
Two days after the Texas debate between Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama, a group of old friends
brought out the good china for a light breakfast of
strong coffee, blueberry muffins and fresh-squeezed
orange juice. We were there to hash out a split
that threatened our friendship and the various
movements with which we are affiliated. In some
ways it was a kaffeeklatch like a million others
across America early on a Saturday morning - but
for the fact that this particular group included
Gloria Steinem, a co-founder of the National
Women's Political Caucus; Beverly Guy-Sheftall,
director of the Women's Research and Resource Center
at Spelman College; Johnnetta Cole, chair of the
board of the JBC Global Diversity and Inclusion
Institute; British-born radio journalist Laura
Flanders; Kimberlé Crenshaw, professor of law at
Columbia and UCLA; Carol Jenkins, head of the
Women's Media Center; Farah Griffin, professor of
English and comparative literature at Columbia;
Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority;
author Mab Segrest; Kenyan anthropologist Achola
Pala Okeyo; management consultant and policy
strategist Janet Dewart Bell; and Patricia
Williams, Columbia law professor and Nation
columnist.
It was a casual gathering, but one that settled down
to business quickly. We were all
progressives but diverse nonetheless. We differed
in our opinions of whether to vote for Hillary
Clinton or Barack Obama - our goal was not an
endorsement. Rather, the concern that united us all
was the "race-gender split" playing out nationally,
in which the one is relentlessly pitted against the
other. We did not want to see a repeat of the ugly
history of the nineteenth century, when the failure
of the women's movement to bring about universal
adult suffrage metastasized into racial resentment
and rift that weakened feminism throughout much of
the twentieth century. How, we wondered, did a
historic breakthrough moment for which we have all
longed and worked hard, suddenly risk becoming
marred by having to choose between "race cards" and
"gender cards"? By petty competitiveness about who
endures more slings and arrows? By media depictions
of white women as the sole inheritors of the
feminist movement and black men as the sole
beneficiaries of the civil rights movement? By
renderings of black women as having to split
themselves right down the center with Solomon's
sword in order to vote for either candidate? What
happened, we wondered, to the last four decades of
discussion about tokenism and multiple identities
and the complex intersections of race, gender,
sexuality, ethnicity and class? We all worried
that the feminist movement's real message is not
being heard, and we thought about how to redirect
attention to those coalitions that form the bedrock
of feminist concern: that wide range of civil
rights groups dedicated to fighting discrimination,
domestic violence, the disruptions of war,
international sex and labor trafficking, child
poverty and a tattered economy that threatens to
increase the number of homeless families
significantly. We thought of all that has
happened in just seven short but disastrous years
of the Bush Administration, and we asked: how might
we position ourselves so we're not fighting one
another? Our issues are greater than any
disagreement about either candidate. We all know
that there is simply too much at stake. On the
one hand, we celebrate the unprecedented moment in
which a black person and a female person have risen
to the lead in the Democratic race for President of
the United States. On the other hand, both of them
are constantly pressed to deny their race or
gender, to "transcend" it, to prove by their very
existence that misogyny and racism no longer exist.
This, even as both are popularly and reductively
caricatured in perniciously stereotypical ways.
Clinton as a woman with balls, Obama as
"unqualified" and "grandiose,"Chelsea Clinton
being "pimped" by her mother while Bill O'Reilly
declares that Michelle Obama should be "lynched."
How do we resist such a toxic Punch and Judy show
of embattled identity, to the degree that many
women feel that a vote for Obama "cheats" Clinton
of her chance to break the glass ceiling, and many
blacks feel that a vote for Clinton is a betrayal
of the chance to break the race barrier? We
agreed that everyone needs to refocus on the big
picture. All of us know that another Republican
presidency would effectively bury the gains of both
the civil rights and the feminist movements of the
past fifty years. Judicial nominations alone could
upend decades of hard work.How, therefore, to
reclaim a common purpose, a truly democratic "we":
we women of all races, we blacks of all genders, we
Americans of all languages, we immigrants of all
classes, we Latinas of all colors, we Southerners
of all regions, we families of all ages, we parents
working three jobs without healthcare, we poor who
sleep on the streets, we single mothers whose homes
are being repossessed, we displaced New Orleanians
whose neo-Arcadian epic of displacement has yet to
resolved. "Can't we all just get along?"
could have been the mantra of this power breakfast
though certainly not forever, nor for all
purposes. Just long enough to roust the Republican
rascals: the oil barons and Enron fraudsters and
pre-emptive warmongers and sadistic torture-masters
and trigger-happy antiabortionists and Blackwater
mercenaries and the tribal extremists of various
religious stripes who seem to look forward to
Armageddon finally segregating humanity into true
believers and recalcitrant, disposable trash. In
the confusion of this triumphalist but precarious
moment, therefore, it is important that the
alliance between a now global feminism and a now
global civil rights movement not be turned against
itself and ultimately defeated. Obama and Clinton,
each a complexly archetypal "role model,"
represent, at their best, a new kind of American
possibility. If we could get over our fixation on a
fantasy that many of us hoped to see realized in
our lifetimes, maybe we could finally turn to the
issues that each of them brings to the table. We
cannot remain tangled by stereotypes that demean
with their sweeping divisiveness and historical
cliché. As we gathered up the empty plates, we
recommitted ourselves to further joint discussions
about how to attain that collective better future,
however many early mornings, late nights and urns
of coffee into the future that may take. We hope
women across America will choose to do the same.
The Nation Posted February 27, 2008 (March 17, 2008)
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080317/feminists
Two days after the Texas debate between Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama, a group of old friends
brought out the good china for a light breakfast of
strong coffee, blueberry muffins and fresh-squeezed
orange juice. We were there to hash out a split
that threatened our friendship and the various
movements with which we are affiliated. In some
ways it was a kaffeeklatch like a million others
across America early on a Saturday morning - but
for the fact that this particular group included
Gloria Steinem, a co-founder of the National
Women's Political Caucus; Beverly Guy-Sheftall,
director of the Women's Research and Resource Center
at Spelman College; Johnnetta Cole, chair of the
board of the JBC Global Diversity and Inclusion
Institute; British-born radio journalist Laura
Flanders; Kimberlé Crenshaw, professor of law at
Columbia and UCLA; Carol Jenkins, head of the
Women's Media Center; Farah Griffin, professor of
English and comparative literature at Columbia;
Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority;
author Mab Segrest; Kenyan anthropologist Achola
Pala Okeyo; management consultant and policy
strategist Janet Dewart Bell; and Patricia
Williams, Columbia law professor and Nation
columnist.
It was a casual gathering, but one that settled down
to business quickly. We were all
progressives but diverse nonetheless. We differed
in our opinions of whether to vote for Hillary
Clinton or Barack Obama - our goal was not an
endorsement. Rather, the concern that united us all
was the "race-gender split" playing out nationally,
in which the one is relentlessly pitted against the
other. We did not want to see a repeat of the ugly
history of the nineteenth century, when the failure
of the women's movement to bring about universal
adult suffrage metastasized into racial resentment
and rift that weakened feminism throughout much of
the twentieth century. How, we wondered, did a
historic breakthrough moment for which we have all
longed and worked hard, suddenly risk becoming
marred by having to choose between "race cards" and
"gender cards"? By petty competitiveness about who
endures more slings and arrows? By media depictions
of white women as the sole inheritors of the
feminist movement and black men as the sole
beneficiaries of the civil rights movement? By
renderings of black women as having to split
themselves right down the center with Solomon's
sword in order to vote for either candidate? What
happened, we wondered, to the last four decades of
discussion about tokenism and multiple identities
and the complex intersections of race, gender,
sexuality, ethnicity and class? We all worried
that the feminist movement's real message is not
being heard, and we thought about how to redirect
attention to those coalitions that form the bedrock
of feminist concern: that wide range of civil
rights groups dedicated to fighting discrimination,
domestic violence, the disruptions of war,
international sex and labor trafficking, child
poverty and a tattered economy that threatens to
increase the number of homeless families
significantly. We thought of all that has
happened in just seven short but disastrous years
of the Bush Administration, and we asked: how might
we position ourselves so we're not fighting one
another? Our issues are greater than any
disagreement about either candidate. We all know
that there is simply too much at stake. On the
one hand, we celebrate the unprecedented moment in
which a black person and a female person have risen
to the lead in the Democratic race for President of
the United States. On the other hand, both of them
are constantly pressed to deny their race or
gender, to "transcend" it, to prove by their very
existence that misogyny and racism no longer exist.
This, even as both are popularly and reductively
caricatured in perniciously stereotypical ways.
Clinton as a woman with balls, Obama as
"unqualified" and "grandiose,"Chelsea Clinton
being "pimped" by her mother while Bill O'Reilly
declares that Michelle Obama should be "lynched."
How do we resist such a toxic Punch and Judy show
of embattled identity, to the degree that many
women feel that a vote for Obama "cheats" Clinton
of her chance to break the glass ceiling, and many
blacks feel that a vote for Clinton is a betrayal
of the chance to break the race barrier? We
agreed that everyone needs to refocus on the big
picture. All of us know that another Republican
presidency would effectively bury the gains of both
the civil rights and the feminist movements of the
past fifty years. Judicial nominations alone could
upend decades of hard work.How, therefore, to
reclaim a common purpose, a truly democratic "we":
we women of all races, we blacks of all genders, we
Americans of all languages, we immigrants of all
classes, we Latinas of all colors, we Southerners
of all regions, we families of all ages, we parents
working three jobs without healthcare, we poor who
sleep on the streets, we single mothers whose homes
are being repossessed, we displaced New Orleanians
whose neo-Arcadian epic of displacement has yet to
resolved. "Can't we all just get along?"
could have been the mantra of this power breakfast
though certainly not forever, nor for all
purposes. Just long enough to roust the Republican
rascals: the oil barons and Enron fraudsters and
pre-emptive warmongers and sadistic torture-masters
and trigger-happy antiabortionists and Blackwater
mercenaries and the tribal extremists of various
religious stripes who seem to look forward to
Armageddon finally segregating humanity into true
believers and recalcitrant, disposable trash. In
the confusion of this triumphalist but precarious
moment, therefore, it is important that the
alliance between a now global feminism and a now
global civil rights movement not be turned against
itself and ultimately defeated. Obama and Clinton,
each a complexly archetypal "role model,"
represent, at their best, a new kind of American
possibility. If we could get over our fixation on a
fantasy that many of us hoped to see realized in
our lifetimes, maybe we could finally turn to the
issues that each of them brings to the table. We
cannot remain tangled by stereotypes that demean
with their sweeping divisiveness and historical
cliché. As we gathered up the empty plates, we
recommitted ourselves to further joint discussions
about how to attain that collective better future,
however many early mornings, late nights and urns
of coffee into the future that may take. We hope
women across America will choose to do the same.
Friday, February 01, 2008
Seminar: Machos on the Loose? "Maennlichkeit" und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit - ein blinder Fleck?
Machos on the Loose?
"Männlichkeit" und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit-
ein blinder Fleck?
Das Beispiel Philippinen
Samstag, den 8. März 2008
Haus der Evangelischen Kirche
Adenauerallee 37
53113 Bonn
Darum geht es...
Gleichstellung in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit heißt oft noch
Frauenförderung. Nicht nur in den Philippinen richten sich
Programme zur Gleichstellung von Männern und Frauen meist
ausschließlich an das weibliche Geschlecht.
Die Berücksichtigung von Männern bei der aktiven Veränderung
der Geschleschterverhältnisse ist da eher die Ausnahme, so heißt es oft,
seien reformresistent und durch ihre kulturell antrainierten Rollen
bestimmt.
Ohne die Benachteiligungen, denen Frauen weltweit ausgesetzt
sind, negieren zu wollen, wollen wir in unserem Seminar aus oben
genannten Gründen den Fokus auf 'Männlichkeit' und 'Männlich-
keitskonzepte' in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit legen. Die
Philippinen sollen dabei als Beispielland dienen.
Das Seminar will...
9:30 - 10:00 Begrüßung und Einführung
10:00 - 11:00 ''Alles Gender oder was''?
Einführung in die Genderdebatte in der Entwicklungs-
zusammenarbeit, Birte Rodenberg
11:00 - 11:15 Kaffee und Tee
11:15 - 12:30 ''Living the machismo way of life'' -
Männlichkeitsvorstellungen in den Philippinen
Jun Naraval (Philippinen)
12:30 - 13:30 Mittagessen und- pause
13:30 - 15:30 Arbeitsgruppen
1. Mr. Gender and Development (GAD), Vorstellung eines
Programms in Davao, Jun Naraval
2. Wie haben sich die Geschlechterverhältnisse durch
(Arbeits)migration verändert?
Jack Catarata und Mary Lou U. Hardillo (mit einem
Input von Birte Rodenberg)
15:30 - 16:00 Berichte aus den Arbeitsgruppen und Abschlussrunde
16:00 - 16:30 Kaffee/Tee
16:30 - 18:30 Mitgliederversammlung
Eine Veranstaltung des philippinenbüro e.V. im Asienhaus
Tagungsbeitrag:
Euro 15- für Vollverdienende
Euro 10- für Studierende, Auszubildende, Geringverdienende
Das Mittagessen sowie Snacks und Getränke sind im Tagungsbeitrag
enthalten.
Bei Bedarf wird eine Kinderbetreuung angeboten.
Eine Fahrtkostenersttatung ist bei Bedarf für Fahrtkosten
innerhalb Deutschlands möglich (bitte Kostenbeleg mitbringen).
Nach der Anmeldung verschicken wir eine Anmeldebestätigung
mit der Kontoverbindung für die Überweisung des Tagungsbeitrages.
Anmeldung bis zum 25. o2. 2008 an:
philippinenbüro Im Asienhaus
Bullmannaue 11
45327 Essen
Tel. 0201.8303828
Fax.0201.8303830
Email: grabowski@asienhaus.de
Bitte so früh wie möglich anmelden!!
Das Seminar wird gefördet durch Misereor.
"Männlichkeit" und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit-
ein blinder Fleck?
Das Beispiel Philippinen
Samstag, den 8. März 2008
Haus der Evangelischen Kirche
Adenauerallee 37
53113 Bonn
Darum geht es...
Gleichstellung in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit heißt oft noch
Frauenförderung. Nicht nur in den Philippinen richten sich
Programme zur Gleichstellung von Männern und Frauen meist
ausschließlich an das weibliche Geschlecht.
Die Berücksichtigung von Männern bei der aktiven Veränderung
der Geschleschterverhältnisse ist da eher die Ausnahme, so heißt es oft,
seien reformresistent und durch ihre kulturell antrainierten Rollen
bestimmt.
Ohne die Benachteiligungen, denen Frauen weltweit ausgesetzt
sind, negieren zu wollen, wollen wir in unserem Seminar aus oben
genannten Gründen den Fokus auf 'Männlichkeit' und 'Männlich-
keitskonzepte' in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit legen. Die
Philippinen sollen dabei als Beispielland dienen.
Das Seminar will...
- Einen Überblick über Männlichkeitskonzepte in der Genderdebatte und der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit geben
- Kulturelle geschlechterspezifische Rollen und deren Entwicklung in den Philippinen thematisieren
- Beispiele von Projekten in den Philippinen geben, bei denen männerspezifische Komponenten beinhaltet sind
9:30 - 10:00 Begrüßung und Einführung
10:00 - 11:00 ''Alles Gender oder was''?
Einführung in die Genderdebatte in der Entwicklungs-
zusammenarbeit, Birte Rodenberg
11:00 - 11:15 Kaffee und Tee
11:15 - 12:30 ''Living the machismo way of life'' -
Männlichkeitsvorstellungen in den Philippinen
Jun Naraval (Philippinen)
12:30 - 13:30 Mittagessen und- pause
13:30 - 15:30 Arbeitsgruppen
1. Mr. Gender and Development (GAD), Vorstellung eines
Programms in Davao, Jun Naraval
2. Wie haben sich die Geschlechterverhältnisse durch
(Arbeits)migration verändert?
Jack Catarata und Mary Lou U. Hardillo (mit einem
Input von Birte Rodenberg)
15:30 - 16:00 Berichte aus den Arbeitsgruppen und Abschlussrunde
16:00 - 16:30 Kaffee/Tee
16:30 - 18:30 Mitgliederversammlung
Eine Veranstaltung des philippinenbüro e.V. im Asienhaus
Tagungsbeitrag:
Euro 15- für Vollverdienende
Euro 10- für Studierende, Auszubildende, Geringverdienende
Das Mittagessen sowie Snacks und Getränke sind im Tagungsbeitrag
enthalten.
Bei Bedarf wird eine Kinderbetreuung angeboten.
Eine Fahrtkostenersttatung ist bei Bedarf für Fahrtkosten
innerhalb Deutschlands möglich (bitte Kostenbeleg mitbringen).
Nach der Anmeldung verschicken wir eine Anmeldebestätigung
mit der Kontoverbindung für die Überweisung des Tagungsbeitrages.
Anmeldung bis zum 25. o2. 2008 an:
philippinenbüro Im Asienhaus
Bullmannaue 11
45327 Essen
Tel. 0201.8303828
Fax.0201.8303830
Email: grabowski@asienhaus.de
Bitte so früh wie möglich anmelden!!
Das Seminar wird gefördet durch Misereor.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Babaylan Europe Conference in October
In Celebration of its 15th Year, Babaylan Cordially Invites to
a Europe-wide Conference of Filipinas
Theme: Gender Dimensions of Migration and Development*
Empowering Filipinas inEurope – their Participation in
Development Processes in Europe and in thePhilippines
October 26-28, 2007
(Köln-Deutz Station/Deutzer Freiheit)
Siegesstraße 5
Cologne, Germany
Theme: Gender Dimensions of Migration and Development*
Empowering Filipinas in
Development Processes in Europe and in the
October 26-28, 2007
(Köln-Deutz Station/Deutzer Freiheit)
Siegesstraße 5
Cologne, Germany
Friday, October 26
Ab 15:00 Arrival of Participants from other European Countries
Registration/Getting to Know You/Network Updates/Books Presentation
Saturday, October 27
9:00-12:30 Opening of the Day/Panel Discussion
Ambassador Delia Domingo-Albert (invited)
Ellene Sana from CenterMigrant Advocacy, Philippines (invited)
Bernice Campos Roldan, Unlad Kabayan , Philippines
Mother Irene Dabalus OSB (invited)
Mother Irene Dabalus OSB (invited)
Parallel Workshops
· Development Projects in thePhilippines
· Gender and Literature in Cultural Context
· Gender and Spirituality
· Developing Filipina Migrant Agenda inEurope
· Putting up Cooperatives
· Organizing Migrant Domestic Workers
· Development Projects in the
· Gender and Literature in Cultural Context
· Gender and Spirituality
· Developing Filipina Migrant Agenda in
· Putting up Cooperatives
· Organizing Migrant Domestic Workers
20:00 Cultural Evening, Barcelona Hall in DJH, Jugendherberge Köln-Deutz
Sunday, October 28
Plenary Session – Babaylan Network
11:00 to 12:00 Closing Ceremonies
*Gender Issues: How we as migrant women are affected not only in the
familial context but also in the social, cultural and economic aspects as
can also be seen in the development discussions. Paano ako bilang
babaeng migranteng nakakatulong sa ikauunlad ng Pilipinas at sa
pamumuhay natin sa Europa.
For Details: Call: Babaylan
Email: babaylanes@gmx.de
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Workshop in Hamburg: Migrant Domestic Work
Workshop: Organising between autonomy and care crisis
Migrant domestic work: Critical review and perspectives of collective action
7 – 8 September 2007 in Hamburg, Curio-Haus
Who is cleaning and ironing at home and takes care for children, granny
and the cats? If the nation’s key players do not accomplish this work
migrant domestic workers step in. It is talked of a future growth industry.
In Germany today there are about four million employments in private
households. This boom is borne by the workers:Their frequently informal
status produces a high risk of exploitation and vulnerability. Under these
conditions defence seems difficult – but still domestic workers have
developed tactics and strategies of resistance and have in other European
countries even found trade union like interest groups.
Meanwhile even in Germany diverse research projects have brought to light
the hyper-precarious modes of existence in the field of migrant domestic
work and care work. However, it has become silent around the political
networking and public actions among other things by migrant self-
organisations which engaged in this topic some years ago. We again take
this as a course for rethinking forms of organisation and intervention. The
workshop is therefore aimed at persons and groups who work or have
worked socially, politically or culturally towards an improvement of the
situation of domestic workers. Starting from the different approaches of
migrant self organisation,we will discuss the contradictions between the
fight for rights, the interests of domestic workers and institutional agency:
Which topics are in the focus of self organisation? How does the question of
interest representation in the field of (domestic) work relate to other areas
of life? Which political perspectives and claims are there? Which alliances
are regarded possible? Does the discussion about precarisation open up
new spaces or are specific conditions of domestic work or care work (again)
not taken into account? How does the claim for global social rights and
legalisation relate to the necessary redistribution of essential societal work?
The organiser's backgrounds and orientations are different: They come from
scientific and activist projects; their standpoints are feminist, focussed on
migration and/or work policy. Some of them hope for a discussion on
precarisation and the networks developing from it. The others are wondering
why there is no relevant feminist movement critically encountering the
devaluation of care work.
The marginalisation of care work is an outcome of capitalist locational
policy. But in which practices does this result? We are curiously looking at
discussions within trade unions, in which they articulate their interest in
those workers who do not count to their traditional clientele. The workshop
shall contribute to thinking and acting outside one's movement's boxes.
The workshop can and should be the start for further local, federal
and/or European networking. A registration for the workshop is requested.
* The workshop is a co-operation between three projects: The project
„Precarisation and Collective Organising“ („Prekarisierung und kollektive
Organisierung“ funded by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation) and Preclab
Hamburg and the European project „Integration of female migrant domestic
workers“ (Sabine Hess, University of Munich and Mone Spindler,
Institute for Social Infrastructure, Frankfurt am Main)
Programme
Friday, 7 September 2007
19:00
Individual capacities of action and collective organising – contradictions and
perspectives in local initiatives
- Mujeres sin Fronteras (Hamburg)
- Luzenir Caixeta (MAIZ, Linz)
Afterwards Buffet and
- Clips from the documentary film „Haus – Halt – Hilfe“ (Petra Valentin, 2006)
- Documentary "Ibasura! Down down!- Philippine women working as
domestic helpers in Hong Kong" (Antje Grez, 2007)
Saturday, 8 September 2007
10.15 – 12.30
Global social rights and redistribution of essential societal work?
Experiences and perspectives of self-organising and in institutions
- Respect Berlin
- Respect Europe
- Mary Lou U. Hardillo-Werning (Philippine Women’s Forum e.V. BABAYLAN)
Coffee break
12.45- 14.15
The state’s and others’ interests in good care and integration
- Barbara Thiessen (German Youth Institute, DJI, Munich): Critical reflection
of so far attempts to regularise house and care work
- Helma Lutz (University of Muenster, Germany): The new European market
for migrant domestic work. Requirements for a gender and migration aware
analysis
- Hannes Heiler (Selbst e.V., Frankfurt): Contradictions between movements
of disabeld persons and the fight for rights of domestic workers?
Lunch break
15.15 – 16.45
Perspectives of organising within and outside trade unions
- Janette Vallejo Santes (AMIC-UGT, Barcelona)
- Emilija Mitrovic (ver.di-AK undokumentiertes Arbeiten, Hamburg)
- Kate Roberts (Kalayaan, London)
Coffee break
17.00 – 18.30
Repolitisation of domestic work and care work. Where are possible alliances?
- Zagas Berlin (PILOT-Projekt)
- Efthimia Panagiotidis (euromayday, organizing, Hamburg) etc.
Please register until 29 August 2007 via email or fax with:
Mone Spindler, ISIS Institut fuer Soziale Infrastruktur
Kasseler Str. 1a, D-60486 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.: 0049-(0)69-26486514, Fax: 0049-(0)69-26486519
Email: spindler@isis-sozialforschung.de
Registration for the workshop:
Organising between autonomy and care crisis
Migrant domestic work: Critical review and perspectives of collective action
7 – 8 September 2007
Curio-Haus, Rothenbaumchaussee 15 (backyard), 20148 Hamburg, Germany
Migrant domestic work: Critical review and perspectives of collective action
7 – 8 September 2007 in Hamburg, Curio-Haus
Who is cleaning and ironing at home and takes care for children, granny
and the cats? If the nation’s key players do not accomplish this work
migrant domestic workers step in. It is talked of a future growth industry.
In Germany today there are about four million employments in private
households. This boom is borne by the workers:Their frequently informal
status produces a high risk of exploitation and vulnerability. Under these
conditions defence seems difficult – but still domestic workers have
developed tactics and strategies of resistance and have in other European
countries even found trade union like interest groups.
Meanwhile even in Germany diverse research projects have brought to light
the hyper-precarious modes of existence in the field of migrant domestic
work and care work. However, it has become silent around the political
networking and public actions among other things by migrant self-
organisations which engaged in this topic some years ago. We again take
this as a course for rethinking forms of organisation and intervention. The
workshop is therefore aimed at persons and groups who work or have
worked socially, politically or culturally towards an improvement of the
situation of domestic workers. Starting from the different approaches of
migrant self organisation,we will discuss the contradictions between the
fight for rights, the interests of domestic workers and institutional agency:
Which topics are in the focus of self organisation? How does the question of
interest representation in the field of (domestic) work relate to other areas
of life? Which political perspectives and claims are there? Which alliances
are regarded possible? Does the discussion about precarisation open up
new spaces or are specific conditions of domestic work or care work (again)
not taken into account? How does the claim for global social rights and
legalisation relate to the necessary redistribution of essential societal work?
The organiser's backgrounds and orientations are different: They come from
scientific and activist projects; their standpoints are feminist, focussed on
migration and/or work policy. Some of them hope for a discussion on
precarisation and the networks developing from it. The others are wondering
why there is no relevant feminist movement critically encountering the
devaluation of care work.
The marginalisation of care work is an outcome of capitalist locational
policy. But in which practices does this result? We are curiously looking at
discussions within trade unions, in which they articulate their interest in
those workers who do not count to their traditional clientele. The workshop
shall contribute to thinking and acting outside one's movement's boxes.
The workshop can and should be the start for further local, federal
and/or European networking. A registration for the workshop is requested.
* The workshop is a co-operation between three projects: The project
„Precarisation and Collective Organising“ („Prekarisierung und kollektive
Organisierung“ funded by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation) and Preclab
Hamburg and the European project „Integration of female migrant domestic
workers“ (Sabine Hess, University of Munich and Mone Spindler,
Institute for Social Infrastructure, Frankfurt am Main)
Programme
Friday, 7 September 2007
19:00
Individual capacities of action and collective organising – contradictions and
perspectives in local initiatives
- Mujeres sin Fronteras (Hamburg)
- Luzenir Caixeta (MAIZ, Linz)
Afterwards Buffet and
- Clips from the documentary film „Haus – Halt – Hilfe“ (Petra Valentin, 2006)
- Documentary "Ibasura! Down down!- Philippine women working as
domestic helpers in Hong Kong" (Antje Grez, 2007)
Saturday, 8 September 2007
10.15 – 12.30
Global social rights and redistribution of essential societal work?
Experiences and perspectives of self-organising and in institutions
- Respect Berlin
- Respect Europe
- Mary Lou U. Hardillo-Werning (Philippine Women’s Forum e.V. BABAYLAN)
Coffee break
12.45- 14.15
The state’s and others’ interests in good care and integration
- Barbara Thiessen (German Youth Institute, DJI, Munich): Critical reflection
of so far attempts to regularise house and care work
- Helma Lutz (University of Muenster, Germany): The new European market
for migrant domestic work. Requirements for a gender and migration aware
analysis
- Hannes Heiler (Selbst e.V., Frankfurt): Contradictions between movements
of disabeld persons and the fight for rights of domestic workers?
Lunch break
15.15 – 16.45
Perspectives of organising within and outside trade unions
- Janette Vallejo Santes (AMIC-UGT, Barcelona)
- Emilija Mitrovic (ver.di-AK undokumentiertes Arbeiten, Hamburg)
- Kate Roberts (Kalayaan, London)
Coffee break
17.00 – 18.30
Repolitisation of domestic work and care work. Where are possible alliances?
- Zagas Berlin (PILOT-Projekt)
- Efthimia Panagiotidis (euromayday, organizing, Hamburg) etc.
Please register until 29 August 2007 via email or fax with:
Mone Spindler, ISIS Institut fuer Soziale Infrastruktur
Kasseler Str. 1a, D-60486 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.: 0049-(0)69-26486514, Fax: 0049-(0)69-26486519
Email: spindler@isis-sozialforschung.de
Registration for the workshop:
Organising between autonomy and care crisis
Migrant domestic work: Critical review and perspectives of collective action
7 – 8 September 2007
Curio-Haus, Rothenbaumchaussee 15 (backyard), 20148 Hamburg, Germany
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Philippinen-Forum NRW Sommerfest 2007
The first Philippinen-Forum NRW Sommerfest was
held in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim at the Evangelische
Gemeindezentrum of Gustav-Adolf-Kirche on August 25, 2007.
An ecumenical service led by Rev. Joy de la Cruz and
Fr. Jun de Ocampo, SVD started the day activities.
Rev. Joy de la Cruz
Fr. Jun de Ocampo, SVD
I would like to share with you the prayer of celebration
for this Ecumenical Service.
Call to Celebration:
Leader: We have gathered to rejoice in our oneness in Jesus
Christ. Each of us experiences faith and life in a unique way.
People: Yet we have one God, one faith, one baptism and one
Spirit who unites us all.
Leader: Let us lift our hearts as one, in songs of praise, in
prayer, in listening to God`s Word and be united in this
celebration as we light this candle that symbolizes God`s presence
in our midst.
Song: "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty"
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty the King of Creation
All my soul praise him for he is your health and salvation
Let all who hear now to his temple draw near
Joining in glad adoration..
Praise to the Lord, who uniquely and splendidly made you
Gave you good health and strength and in your daily walk led you.
All your need, God in his mercy who would meet
Under his wings he would shade you.
Praise to the Lord, who will prosper you and defend you
Surely his goodness and mercy shall daily attend you
Ponder anew, what the Almighty can do
If with his love he befriends you.
Call to Repentance:
Leader: Let us join in our prayers of Repentance to God:
*Forgive us Lord, that our actions have not matched our words.
People: Have mercy on us Lord and hear our prayer to you.
*We claim to believe in community, but separate ourselves
from others in our daily life and ministry.
*We affirm our belief in God and the unity of the church,
yet refuse to make the changes needed to accomplish that oneness.
*We proclaim Christian hope yet we are not ready to participate
in the task of transformation in the world which is full of destruction,
injustice and disunity.
Assurance of Forgiveness:
*God has forgiven us through Jesus Christ our sins, Let us walk
with God in faith and thanksgiving.
First Reading: James 1:22-27
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man
who observes his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself
and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But he who
looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being
no hearer that forgets but a doer that acts, he shall be blessed in
his doing.
If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but
deceives his heart, this man`s religion is vain. Religion that is pure
and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and
widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
The Word of the Lord.
Halleluja
Gospel: Matthew 12:46-50
While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers
stood outside, asking to speak to him. But he replied to the men who told
him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?"
And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, "Here are my
mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in
heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother."
The Gospel of the Lord.
Halleluja
Reflections
Prayer of Intercession:
* for victims of war and calamaties
*for people who are sick and hungry
*for all churches and church leaders
*for the government and its officials
Response to every prayer: Lord, have mercy.
Prayer: Our Father
Song: "Pananagutan"
Walang sinuman ang nabubuhay para sa sarili lamang
Walang sinuman ang namamatay para sa sarili lamang
Ref: Tayong lahat ay may pananagutan sa isa´t isa
Tayong lahat ay pinili ng Dios na kapiling niya.
Sa ating pagmamahalan at paglilingkod sa kanino man
Tayo ay nagdadala ng balita ng kaligtasan.
Sabay-sabay ngang mag-aawitan ang mga bansa
Tayo ay tinuring ng Panginoon bilang mga anak.
The Jubilee Song
It`s a time of joy, a time of peace
A time when hearts are then set free
A time to heal the wounds of division
It`s a time of grace, a time of hope.
A time of sharing the gifts we have
A time to build the world that is one.
Ref: It`s time to give thanks to the Father, Son and the Spirit
And with Mary our Mother, we sing this song.
Open your hearts to the Lord and begin to see the mystery
That we are all together in one family
No more walls, no more chains
No more selfishness and closed doors
for we are in the fullness of God`s time
It is the time of the great jubilee.
It is a time of prayer, a time of praise
A time to lift our praise to God
A time to recall our graces
It is time to touch
A time to reach to those hearts that often wander
A time to bring them back to God`s embrace.
A Photo Reportage
Pfrin. Cornelia Oßwald
Consul Edgar Thomas Auxilian
Participation of Babaylanes Germany,
Philippine Women`s Forum e.V.
Honorarkonsul Heinz-Peter Heidrich visiting
the info table of Butuan Foundation with
Consul Edgar Thomas Auxilian and Carmelita
Kim and Bernd
Nina and Sophia waiting for the Games for Children
Nina: What games do you have for children?
ML: We have pulboron eating games.
Nina: Is that a game for children?
ML: Hmmmm, ah, ah, oo, yes sa Pilipinas, oo.
Eating, talking, watching, applauding part of
the audience
A Number of Visayan Songs
Bärbel of the Mispa Foundation of Mindanao
Part of the Preparatory Team
From left to right:
Jeannette, Carmelita, Tess, Mary Lou with
Rizal
Program
Grußworte:
Pfrin. Cornelia Oßwald (Gastgeberin)
Consul Edgar Thomas Auxilian, Bonn
Fr. Jun de Ocampo, SVD, St. Agustin
Tanz- Wuppertaler Gruppe
Honorarkonsul Heinz-Peter Heidrich, Essen
Bernd Nilles (MGFFI), Düsseldorf
Dietmar Fischer (Eine-Welt-Netz NRW), Münster
Lieder von Esther Briggs und Vater "Bol-anon" Nottuln
Dagmar Eberhard/Film zum Streik der Toyotaarbeiter
Tänze-Bol-anon sa Germany, Nottuln
Tanz - Wuppertaler Gruppe
Beitrag von Philipp Bück/Philippinenbuero, Essen
Lieder - Krefeld
Tanz - Bagobo - Frau Evelyn Gucor
Beitrag von AHW e.V. Beate Steffens, Rheine
Lieder - Larna Steur, Butuan Global Foundation Europe, Duisburg
Beitrag von Mary Lou U. Hardillo, Babaylan, The Philippine
Women`s Network in Europe
Gesang - Medley-Tanz, Düsseldorf
Moderation: Rizal Victoria
Das Vorbereitungsteam:
Susan Sacay-Schröder (Filipino-German Community in Düsseldorf),
Mary Lou U. Hardillo (Babaylan, The Philippine Women`s Network
in Europe), Jeannette R. Hodes (Filipino-German Community in
Düsseldorf), Tessie Wilms (Bohol Hilfe sa Alemanya, Wuppertal),
Carmelita Woitecki (Butuan Global Fondation Europe, Duisburg),
Antje Pannenbecker (Philippinenbuero, Essen), Dietmar Fischer
(Eine Welt Netz, NRW, Münster), Bernd Schütze (Amt für MÖVe,
Dortmund)
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Certificate of Recognition for Philippine Women's Forum e.V.
A Certificate of Recognition goes to Philippine Women´s Forum e.V.
for its civil engagement. The certificate of acknowledgement and gratitude
was given by Mr. Fritz Schramma, Mayor of the City of Cologne on
June 14, 2007.
Philippine Women´s Forum e.V. a recognized non-profit organization
is the official country member of Babaylan, The Philippine Women's
Network in Europe. PWF initiates another all women migrant group
called Babaylanes Internationales.
If you are interested in joining our network or supporting our
projects, please email or call us. Donation to our Verein/Organization
is tax-deductible: (Spenden an unseren Verein sind steuerlich absetzbar.)
Philippine Women's Forum e.V.
Postbank NL Koeln
Konto Nr. 334368506
BLZ: 370 100 50
For further information:
Email: Babaylanesinternationales@gmail.com
babaylanes@gmx.de
Sunday, June 10, 2007
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