Sat 26th of March Disturbances-lecture: The Arrival of Feminism at the Anarchist Movement - the Anarcho-Feminist Union 'Peppi' And Other Feminist Groups in the Activist Movement of the 1990s
Submitted by A-ryhmä on 1 March, 2016 - 12:16
Doors open at 4 pm, Lecture begins at 4:15 pm
The anarchist movement in Finland in the 1990s was largely organized by men. The Finnish Anarchist Union, FAU (Suomen anarkistiliitto, SAL), Kapinatyöläinen-magazine ("Rebel Worker"), solidarity demonstrations and panel discussions were dominated by men, and mostly men's voices were heard at anarchist meetings. Red anarchism in Helsinki, especially, leaned heavily on the traditions of the workers' movement which did include lofty speeches about women's rights but whose gender roles were, in practice, quite traditional.
In 1995, Peppi, an anarcho-feminist union, was founded to tackle these problems, and the individuals involved wanted to approach feminism as a matter of class and race in addition to opposing capitalism. Peppi's founding principles were rooted in the writings of Emma Goldman, Alexandra Kollontai and Rosa Luxemburg as well as in the radical feminism of the 1970s.
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After lecture, 90's theme party and reunion gig of Paatos anarcha-feminist choir https://www.facebook.com/events/765303406902581/
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