Feminist Peace Network

We consist to 70 -80 % of water only. We need around 2 liters of water dayly to stay in living connection with the rest of life. The watermolecules, that travel throught us thereby are since the beginning of life on this planet . So we are in connection with all co-living creatures and have part in the memories of all cultures that the planet ever saw by this flow of water trought us. Women are associated with the origins of life because the water that we came out of this time is the amniotic fluid in the belly of our mother. Because of this and because our mothers beeing mostlý the first to quench our thirst, women in all parts of the globe got the task to bring the water home. The water stands thereby symbolicaly for the social task of nurturig the newborn into becoming a human, that we expect the mothers to accomplish. But in patriarchy women are mostly not free and honored for trying to accomplish this task, but devaluated and often kept unfree int he status as a possession of men. Today we try to release those patterns and thereby look closer for understanding and reevaluating the very comlex tasks that were for long time unpayed work of women. They shall be detached from constructed gederrolle expectations that have often broungt beliefs with deadly consequences. Because when humans say “nature” it is allready “culture”.

To feel equal with everything alife on the basis that we are all transitory is a clear perpective in the mirror of the element water. Above all cultural limits this insight could unite us on the most basic level of survival which we need to do to face ecological changes without escalating into wars without limit. Empowerment is a fundamentaly nonhierarchical process, thats why it nurtures and why women are to give it for free. In kapitalist/patriarchy this leads to exploitation and devaluation because hierarchies rule in patriarchy. Since women as political subjec has been deconstructed solidarity needs to be brought back in to flow on an elementary level. This because the acting around old rolle modells gives them energy and the freedom from deconstructing them needs to be fullfilled by growth to prevent reenacting old errors. Which errors ? Patterns of collective unlearning of empathy in totalitarian situations as in NS Germany and comparable collective freezing into mad actions and the echoes that followed them. What has this to do with water ? Water is basicaly concerned with the connection to oneself and what is the “other” to it . This means it has the positive potencial to recognise oneself with empathy mirrored in every living beeings trials to live also in the considered as “other ” -or foreign.Whilst the negative side of it lies in the unconscious potencial that can make people project heir own repressed fears onto those that demagoges present as the cause of the problem= as enemies to be hated like we saw it done in the third reich. Then empathy is unlearned and fear distorted into hating the “other”.

Local income from water management should not be privatised ! But global water tax on it can secure that we all share in a sane way the water on the planet wile caring for ecological survival together. Water suply as a human right means communal water-commitees would decide who is reliable enought to get the job of local water management. With a globaly valuable eco law - that we need to install-corporations that contaminate water, like Union Carbide ( and this now Dow Chemical its new owner)did in Bhopal need to be sued harshly by this law and they need to pay as long as the damage done to the resource water for the local people is not totaly removed. It would be the local water commitees that decide who is reliable enought to do this job of cleansing the watrer and the ground from the fines payed by the damaging corporation. We demand this in Solidarity with ourselfes with the women/people of Bhopal, those in Palestine, that cannot share the sparse water in ways that would make peace easier to establish, those that pay costly for water ij the slums of the world, wile their richer neighbours with water taps pay less and with everybody fair enought to deserve to live on a democratic planet.

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