Culture of Care —not Culture of War!
GLOBAL ACTION DAYS AGAINST MILITARISM
With the Global Action Days against Militarism, organised simultaneously in different contexts of the world, we call for a broad resistance against militaristic structures worldwide and their connection to systems of exploitation and discrimination.
The wide acceptance of militaristic violence is based on bourgeois ideologies and ways of thinking that normalise catastrophes as a “necessary evil” in order to guarantee the continuity of capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism. These systems are based on the ongoing degradation of certain lives – working people, disabled people, people of marginalised genders and Black, Brown and Indigenous people – and a general extractivist ideology in relation to life, nature, the planet and beyond.
This includes competition and warfare in the name of white, capitalist and patriarchal supremacy, which is expressed in forms of (neo)colonial expansion, military occupation, militarised extraction of natural resources, gender-specific forms of violence as practices of torture and war, the creation of deadly borders and the ongoing dehumanisation and murder of Black, Brown and Indigenous people.
If we wish to have life-enhancing communities and ways of being with each other, we have to create them ourselves. The demilitarisation of the planet is a starting point to no longer accept oppressive systems, and to instead shake and destroy them, and to fight for a utopian future with our collective visions.
We invite persons, collectives and organisations who share a decolonial, internationalist and antipatriarchal perspective of resistance against militarism to organise artistic and disruptive actions between the 17th and 25th of November 2023. Small actions are also welcome. In the context of switzerland, internationalist resistance is crucial.
Against arms industries such as Ruag, Thales and Rheinmetall, that export their weapons all over the world.
Against the militarisation and externalisation of the eu borders supported by military infrastructures and surveillance technologies which has consequences from the mediterranean to Lybia, Morocco, Sudan, Niger and many other places, where the eu is pulling their strings.
Against the racist narrative of security that legitimises control of and violence against people.
For the abolition of the global arms industry and the creation of collective and caring structures.
For a life-enabling environment, earth and future for all generations to come.For freedom of movement for all.
For solidarity with the oppressed, exploited and dispossessed of the world.
For a decolonial, queer-feminist and internationalist revolutionary process.