Feminist constituents in Chile
CLACSO and the Las 12 supplement of the Argentine newspaper Página 12 present a special series hosted by Ana Cacopardo with the participation of feminist candidates from social movements for the Constituent Assembly.
The social uprising, with its massive mobilizations and its challenge to the logic of the neoliberal model, has opened an unprecedented process in Chile, which this April will vote for a Constituent Assembly to reform the Constitution inherited from the Pinochet regime. Within this context, Chilean feminist movements have been at the forefront of historic mobilizations and now take on the challenge of participating in the elections and reaching the Constituent Assembly with their own representatives and a platform capable of influencing the debate on the new Constitution. Many of these women come from social movements to revitalize the traditional political landscape, which has been heavily challenged by the uprising. However, their trajectories are little known to the public, and they have few platforms to disseminate their ideas and proposals. It is for this reason that the Latin American Council of Social Sciences and the "Las 12" supplement of the newspaper Página 12 have deemed it necessary to present this series featuring feminist candidates for the Chilean Constituent Assembly. These are four meetings led by journalist Ana Cacopardo that will be broadcast in the Las 12 supplement starting March 5 and in their full version starting Saturday, March 6 through www.clacso.org, the YouTube channel clacso.tv and CLACSO's social networks.
In this regard, Karina Batthyány, Executive Secretary of CLACSO, recalled that “social and political struggles in Latin America and the Caribbean have been one of the priority areas of work and dissemination of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences since its founding in 1967. In 2021—and in what we call 'Women's Month'—the process underway in Chile to definitively turn the page on the Pinochet-era Constitution takes on particular relevance. Thus, together with Las 12 and with journalistic direction by Ana Cacopardo, we launched a series of dialogues with feminist candidates from social movements, whose proposals and experiences significantly enrich the campaign for the Constitutional Convention in Chile and contribute to the public debate in the social sciences and humanities, focusing on plurinational, socio-environmental, labor, and grassroots feminisms.”
Each session will bring into dialogue the territorial trajectories of the candidates with the proposals of their movements for the new Constitution of Chile.
The sessions, their participants, and their main themes are as follows:
Session 1: Plurinational Feminism
Migrant: Catalina Bosch, constituent candidate for district 9, National Coordinator of Immigrants
Mapuche: Jessica Cayupi, constituent candidate district 9 Mapuche Women's Network
Session 2: Socio-environmental feminism
Santiago: Francisca Fernández Droguett, constituent candidate district 10 Movement for Water and Territories and Socio-environmental Committee CF8M
Valparaíso: Camila Zárate, constituent candidate for district 07, Movement for Water and Territories and Cabritería Park Network
Session 3: Trade Union Feminism
Santiago: Karina Nohales, constituent candidate district 10, Feminist Coordinator 8M
Valparaíso: Natalia Corrales, constituent candidate district 07, Feminist Coordinator 8M
Session 4: Popular Feminism
Tocopilla: Dayyana González, constituent candidate district 03 Tocopilla Women's Union KORI
Calama: Dalila Peña, constituent candidate district 03 Coordinator for the Defense of the Loa River
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