RE / SISTERS Questo documentario nasce in risposta al primo, R/esistenze, sulle donne partigiane in Italia, una specie di passaggio della staffetta. Il primo l’ho perso e per poco non ho perso anche questo, rimasto in esposizione solo un paio di settimane, in una stanza del Museo della Resistenza dove il personale quando vedeva un visitatore veniva ad accendere il video – dalla pessima risoluzione audio.
Primi istanti di spaesamento. Ma se si riesce a mettere da parte l’insofferenza per gli obsoleti giochi di parole da embittered feminist (one for all, the title) and fitting do-it-yourself, the show has a lot to say. Or to suggest.
On the walls hang portraits of women who have fought, are fighting, not for abstract ideals but practical problems currently facing every day. War, disease, ecological, religious, political silence, sex discrimination. I knew some of them, often only their names, such as physics Vandana Shiva, an advocate of the ecofeminist, I knew the author of monocultures of the mind but we did not know the struggles for environmental protection and traditional knowledge in India is still open and the battle against the introduction of GMOs in India.
I knew that the mothers of the disappeared Argentines were formed in association Madres de Plaza de Mayo , but really did not know what their agenda. And I'm impressed. Marked faces of these women simple, any parent, that before the searing pain of the abduction, torture and cancellation of the existence of their children, they found the strength to fight the silence and take out each week, from April 30, 1977, in front the Casa Rosada, despite the silence of those who knew, intimidation and kidnapping and then murder of three founders. In these three decades, madres never stops and cafes have opened a literary una biblioteca, una università cooperativa, una videoteca, una casa editrice, e ora anche una stazione radio. Hanno visto riconosciuta la loro tragedia con ammissioni politiche e da mobilitazioni internazionali. Dicono che sono stati i loro figli, che non avevano paura di far sentire le loro voci, a farle rinascere.
Aminattou Haidar viene da un’altra parte del mondo, è sposata e ha due figli. Aminattou Haidar è il simbolo della lotta per la difesa dei diritti umani nei territori occupati del Sahara occidentale, violate dalle forze marocchine. Aminattou Haidar per la sua protesta pacifica ha subito incarcerazioni e torture. L’ultima volta, il 17 giugno 2005, è stata prelevata dall’ospedale where they were dressed the wounds inflicted by the Moroccan police during a peaceful demonstration in El Ayun. In the police station there was subjected to three days of interrogation in isolation, without food or medicines, then was transferred to the Carcel El Negro Ayoun where output is seven months later to resume his activism in favor of human rights and the Sahrawi.
This gallery of portraits, each with a dramatic story behind each one, and supported by the determination and courage is and must remain the face of no heroes or heroines, but of ordinary people, so ask questions and find answers is a normal process, daily. If I think we live in Italy I can not but feel even stronger than thick bitter, sorrow and disgust with a political class that does the good and the bad times and whose flaws are covered by excuses programmatically so incredible as to be offensive to the intelligence of the citizens of the last . And no one is indignant. Many of these women come from developing countries, often have not had access to advanced education. We have master degrees and behind that we should have given the cultural tools to understand our time and get that rare gem that is the critical sense. And for what?
