Bündnis Feministischer Kampftag Düsseldorf

In the page's words:

We are an alliance of individuals, groups and organizations in Düsseldorf. We work together every year on Feminist Struggle Day and plan the demonstration and many different events around March 8 during our action weeks. There are up to 60 of us active in the various working groups every year.

Our minimum consensus:

We see ourselves as a cross-current feminist alliance of FLINTA people. FLINTA stands for women, lesbians, inter*, non-binary, trans* and agender people.

Our alliance fights for the liberation of all people from patriarchy, oppression and exploitation. We not only want to defend the achievements of the feminist movements that have already been fought for, but also actively intervene and pursue our own political goals for the liberation of all people.

We are disillusioned with the institutions and alleged opportunities for co-determination in our society. We want to create our own freedom as well as revolutionize society as a whole. Because it is not enough for us to only feel truly free in a small circle, we want to be able to live self-determined lives everywhere. And we want this to be possible for all oppressed people!

We want to overcome patriarchy, capitalism and global racist structures of exploitation. They use each other and alienate us from each other in order to preserve themselves. We will not allow ourselves to be divided and played off against each other. We unite against this domination! We want a life without domination!

No country deserves our obedience and borders between countries turn us into enemies.

We know that legal equality alone does not mean real emancipation and is only a stage victory. We do not want to be equal in a deeply capitalist, sexist, racist state. We want to build a different society!

We don't want a society in which human rights are only fulfilled if they don't "cost too much money". We want an inclusive society!

In practice, this means that we organize ourselves to achieve our goals. We want to create easy access so that even more people can organize and politicize themselves!

We want to get out of the bubble and go to where the people we want to reach are: FLINTA, workers, migrants. That's why we also want to fight in trade unions and invite them to our activities.

We want to break down more barriers so that people with disabilities, chronic illnesses and mental illnesses can also participate and we can unite our struggles!

We want to make cis men responsible so that they can play their part in feminist struggles. That is why there is a men's solidarity structure affiliated to the alliance, which is open to all men (cis, trans*, inter*).

We want to be an open alliance, but TERFS and fascists have no place with us.

We create spaces for education, culture, exchange and networking. We create spaces that are as safe as possible to strengthen us for our struggles. We take the time and space we need. We appropriate spaces that are male-dominated and change the rules of the game!

We stand up publicly for our vision, organize events and demos. In doing so, we want to remain self-critical and measure our practice against our values.

The society we are striving for no longer dictates how people should lead their lives based on old role models. Gender and sexual orientation must be freely discovered and lived. We reject the supposedly "natural" binary and sexist gender order. Education and care are social tasks and not just the duty of people who are socialized and/or read as female.

We want a good and free life for all: a society that places care work and the needs-oriented provision of all at the center. This is not possible in our profit-oriented society. That is why we are striving for a classless society in which it is not wealth but all of us who decide democratically, especially on the way we produce. We want a life in harmony with nature and the environment instead of profit-oriented exploitation. We want a world without colonial structures and the overcoming of nation states.

We want a world in which animals and humans can and want to live.

Our militant feminism does not just exist in a bubble, but takes a stand on struggles and developments. For us, this means intersectionality and class solidarity.

We see solutions in collective unification instead of neoliberal isolation. Only together can a good life for all be realized by all.

This is not some distant utopia, but is already possible today.

Get out of the defensive! Get organized!