Concept list: cluster 6

Rural Women’s Assembly. Young Womxn’s Social Media Workshops. (2019, July 18). Retrieved December 01, 2020, from https://ruralwomensassembly.wordpress.com/media/gallery/

The article “Young Womxn’s Social Media Workshops” is written by the Rural Women’s Assembly” which is a self-organized network in Southern Africa that aims to achieve rural women’s rights and grant voices to the women of Africa.

- The article begins to explain how the first young womxn’s social media camp was held in 2018, as it aimed to show the struggles and concerns of most women, build strategies that would link this network with the media to raise awareness, show the importance and value of social media in today’s generation, and to strengthen the media capacities of the RWA (Rural Women’s Assembly, 2019).

- The author further discusses how the women involved in this social media camp performed certain activities. For example, they discussed their ideas in accordance to World Food Day and International Rural Women’s month in order to develop a social media strategy and increase their engagement within the online world.

- Young Womxn’s Social Media Workshops: Camp initiated by Rural Women’s assembly in Johannesburg that consisted of 25 women from 8 countries that introduced young women to several media skills through different platforms like facebook and twitter.

- The women also wrote several articles for the organizations’ newsletter and to share on social media as well, showing their personal engagement within the organization.

- The authors conclude on a note that this would allow such rural women to feel more confident and safe to share their issues with the public, allowing other women and even men to feel comfortable enough to share their stories with the rest.

- This is related to media activism since such an organization aims to spread the voices of Southern African women around the globe, and to put an end to the misogyny, sexism, inequality, domestic violence and much more that rural women face on a daily basis, and women in general.

Rural Women’s Assembly. Annual Feminist School. (2019, July 18). Retrieved December 01, 2020, from https://ruralwomensassembly.wordpress.com/media/video/

The article “Annual Feminist School” is also written by the Rural Women’s Assembly”.

- The author begins to explain how their annual feminist school aims to explain the concept of feminism in relation to rural women, farmers and producers of all ages (Rural Women’s Assembly, 2019).

- Annual feminist school: an important space in the RWA that has introduced the concept of feminism into the organization (Rural Women’s Assembly, 2019)

- The author proceeds to discuss how important it is to talk about the concept of feminism in order to build conscious for feminist leaders, draw out their input on the ecological crisis that is happening for the purpose of developing and increasing one’s understanding of humanity in terms of nature (Rural Women’s Assembly, 2019).

- It’s important and significant to give dominance to sectors related to agriculture and consumption to put an end to ecological destruction (Rural Women’s Assembly, 2019).

- The article also mentions how each year the school aims to develop methodology and innovation in relation to feminism and rural women.

- Methodology: reading, story -telling, cultural and spiritual expressions of mystica, case-studies, presentations, film screenings, discussions and group work (Rural Women’s Assembly, 2019).

- This is related to the concept of media activism as the organization attempts to raise awareness about rural women in Africa through the usage of social media and the portrayal of such activities, to help women feel safe and heard whilst sharing their stories.

Rural Women’s Assembly. Blog: Anti-eviction dialogue, South Africa. (2015, April). https://ruralwomensassembly.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/rwa-newsletter-3-2-incl-wsf-and-blog-4.pdf

This section of the newsletter “Blog: Anti-eviction dialogue, South Africa” was written by Rural Women’s Assembly in April of 2015.

- It aims to express how women across South Africa collided with one another on March 19 in order to fight for their rights as they’ve been kicked off their lands and farms.

- The meeting was initiated by Carmen and Colette from the Women on Farms project.

- Farmer Abrahams has many farms and I work on one of them: A song that was sung by the protestors which got everybody up on their feet (Rural Women’s Assembly, 2015).

- The article further proceeds to include quotes from different people in South Africa who have lost their jobs and are speaking from experience.

- Cape Winelands: Hot spot area for evictions (Drakenstein district) Wellington and Paarl has the highest number of evictions — many households (sometimes up to 13 people per household)

- The author also mentions how when the husband is evicted, the wife is on casual employment which makes it easier for the farmer to evict families.

- The writer also suggests how no one has gone to court since the government isn’t helping as much due to the economic crisis.

- Evictions have started from 1996.

- TCOE — PLAAS study: discusses how farmers will evict more people as the economic crisis worsens overtime.

- The article moves on to discuss how the Rural Women’s Assembly attended the World Social Forum in Tunisia in March 2015 (Rural Women’s Assembly, 2015).

- Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly World Social Forum 2015 Tunisia, 27 March 2015: Detailed description of how this world social forum will put an end to sexism, racism, homophobia, capitalism, patriarchy, transnational corporations and financial systems and much more.

- The declaration suggests different dates to attend the activities and support this social regime in accordance to what group they’re aiming to give rise to and a call for.

- People united will never be defeated!: The catchphrase of this forum that aims to end colonialism and practically anything that goes against the ideologies of basic human rights.

This is related back to media activism since the authors aim to put an end to social stigmas and misogyny that women face by the usage of social media and attendance of women to other social forums, increasing their knowledge upon the subject of interest.