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Street manifestation for 6 hours work day with 8 hours pay.
 
Here is some of the things Kvinnofronten
in Sweden fights for and struggles against:
Against Pornography and all kind of Male Sexual
Violence
In
Sweden today prostitution is prohibited, but there are few restrictions
in law against pornography. Pornography is found everywhere around
us in our daily life.
Since Kvinnofronten
started we've struggled against pornography. During the 1980's Kvinnofronten
took the initiative to build The People's Organisation
against Pornography (Folkaktionen mot Pornografi – FmP)
that existed in Sweden between 1985 and 1999. We made a slide lecture
that both FmP and Kvinnofronten traveled
with all around Sweden. Many women in Kvinnofronten
is also engaged in the Women's Shelter movement or against male
sexual violence in other ways.
You can read more about the Swedish
struggle against pornography on the Folkaktionen
mot Pornografi's web site (you can go there via the menu
to the left).
For Free child day-care centers for children,
6 hour work days and wages one can live on
6
hour work days is another demand that Kvinnofronten
have made from the beginning. As well as good child day-care centers
for children, that should be free of charge. We also fight all attempt
to try to change our legal right to abortion. And of course, in
a country where women's wages compared to men's have been reduced
every year during the last twenty years, we keep fighting for wages
to live on.
In the recent years every day life
has become increasingly harder for women, especially working class
women. The continuos cut downs in the social services hit all women
with low wages hard, not to mention single mothers. The fight against
the cut downs in the social services and for a shorter normal work
day is more important than ever.
Against the European Union
Like
most people in Sweden the members of Kvinnofronten
are against the Swedish membership of the European Union. We want
Sweden to leave the European Union, and we definitely do not want
our country to join the monetary union or the WEU.
– In Sweden it's fundamental
that all political power emerge from the people.
– Except when the European Union says otherwise...
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Gerda Christenson
Sisterhood!
Since
the oppression of women imbue everything in society, it becomes
"normal" – so normal that we don't always see it.
Instead we often start believing our selves to be wrong or crazy.
Therefore we need the support of each other to stand up against
the oppression and try to make a change.
In Kvinnofronten
we want to give each other the courage to believe in our selves,
to dare more and to see that we can make a change – if we do
it together.
This sisterhood must be regardless
of color, ethnicity, religion, age, ability, sexual preference or
nation boundaries.
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