BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz celebrates the support given to 15 projects for peace and justice during this year’s Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz grant cycle. The Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz was established in 2018 and empowers small, grassroots groups around the world doing the work of peacemaking on a local or regional level.
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Last year, women, girls and allies all across Mexico took to the streets to engage in massive demonstrations to raise awareness about the violence against women and girls in the country. At our most recent BPFNA board meeting, Vice President Veró Garibay-Bravo shared an update on what's currently happening with the women's movement in 2021.
BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz stands with the Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in lamenting the deaths of the eight people killed in Atlanta and joins with others in demanding an end to AAPI hate, violence and discrimination. We condemn the increasing xenophobic and hateful attitudes and actions directed toward AAPI communities, families and businesses – especially throughout recent years where we’ve seen targeted rhetoric around the “rising threat” of China and fear mongering around COVID-19. We also acknowledge that this racism is not something new. As a nation founded on white supremacy and patriarchy – ideologies that are deeply embedded in our systems and everyday way of life – we also cannot ignore the history of racism in the United States against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and, as six of the victims were women of Asian descent, the history of misogyny against Asian women in particular.
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Throughout history, women in every part of the world have made great strides, sometimes in spite of a significant lack of equality. With the help of women such as Lucretia Mott, Rosa Parks, and Marsha P. Johnson, the gap in equality in areas such as gender, race, and sexual orientation has become more and more narrow. Currently, we are very fortunate that these women and so many more have made these strides, but we still have a long way to go - and part of it comes from the way we approach feminism even among each other as women.
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(Drawing created by Cristian Hernandez). "Sister, listen! This is your fight", women who saw us pass raised their fists, chanted the slogans, followed the rhythm of the drums, cried. Weeks before, the horrendous murder of the young woman Ingrid Escamilla at the hands of her partner and the disappearance and murder of Fátima Aldrighett (five years old), along with the mishandling of the stories by the media and the authorities in both cases were triggers for the outrage of the nation. “Enough is enough”. In a country where murders are no longer news, where 3,000 women die every year just for being women, these two cases aroused outrage at impunity, disgust at dehumanization, satiety over violence and injustice of the corrupt system in which we have lived for so many years.
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Luz Amparo works in Cali, Colombia with Red de Mujeres Comisión de Paz / The Network of Women Peace Commission (CEDECOL), an organization working to end violence against women. CEDECOL contributes to the elimination of violence against women through Church Ministries to: 1. Promote prevention and protection strategies for women survivors of violence. 2. Encourage initiatives of social research that make visible the reality of violence against women. 3. Insert in political and ecclesial decision-making spaces to recognize women's leadership and the fulfillment of their rights.
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