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The World Courts of Women exist to rewrite our histories, reclaim our memories, and find new visions for our times. Through storytelling, testimony, and analysis we seek to weave together the personal with the political, the rational with the intuitive, and to seek a deeper understanding of our movements and our histories. The Courts of Women are public hearings that exist to share voices of survival and resistance from the margins. As the host organizations for the 2011 World Court of Women, we seek to name the crimes of poverty in the U.S. and build a vision of healing and reparations. We seek to bring light to the tremendous violence of poverty that impacts our children, our families, our communities, and challenge the myth that dire poverty only exists outside of the boundaries of the U.S. In this People’s Movement Assembly we will hear testimony of rebels and survivors, draw connections between movements to end poverty in the U.S. and globally, and share methods for transformative action. We are committed to uniting the poor as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty everywhere and forever. We will bear witness to some of the testimonies that have been recorded at the previous 38 World Courts across the globe and begin to move forward together towards creating the first World of Court of Women in the U.S. We draw inspiration from the peasants in Chiapas, Mexico, who know that the journey is in itself precious, and sum up their political vision in three little words:
asking, we walk.
(language drawn from World Court of Women vision document, by Corinne Kumar)
