Fall/Winter 2005 Newsletter

ARCHITECTURE OFA FAILING STATE

ARCHITECTURE OFA FAILING STATE

n Hurricane Katrina ExposesCrisis in the US

n Women’s Community GroupsRespond to Disaster

n 2005 Program Highlights andIdeas for Holiday Giving

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Dear Friends, 2005, which began with our urgent responseto women and families caught in the Asiantsunami, has been punctuated by one natural disaster after another across the world: in SriLanka, Cuba, New Orleans, Guatemala, andPakistan, MADRE stood with our sisters andtheir families after each crisis, offering emer-gency aid and support for reconstruction thatputs the needs of women, families, and com-

munities first.We were able todo this workthanks to you—our members.

At the sametime, MADRE’songoing pro-grams continuedand evenexpanded thisyear. We provid-ed health care,

early childhood education, and economicdevelopment programs. We fought violenceagainst women, the spread of HIV/AIDS, andhunger and malnutrition. And everywhere, westood up to the policies of the BushAdministration, which have caused needlesssuffering at home and abroad. Our insistenceon US policies that reflect both common senseand common decency remains the guidingprinciple of MADRE’s work. Thank you forenabling us to grow this principle into a set ofconcrete programs that better the lives andfutures of women and families in every regionof the world.

Sincerely,

From the Executive Director

VIVIAN STROMBERG

MADRE Executive Director

Vivian Stromberg

MADRE honors the memory of

ROSA PARKSa life-long Civil Rights leader whose defianceof segregation sparked the 1955 Montgomery,Alabama bus boycott and the modern CivilRights Movement. Rosa Parks’ legacy fuels ourown determination to challenge and changeunjust laws as we continue to work for a worldfree of racism and injustice.

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Volume XXI, #2

MADRE’s newsletter, MADRE Speaks, is published quarterly.

MADRE is an international women's human rights organi-zation that works in partnership with women's community-based groups in conflict areas worldwide. Our programsreflect a human-rights-based and people-centeredapproach to achieving the UN Millennium DevelopmentGoals, which aim to: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger;achieve universal primary education; promote genderequality and empower women; reduce child mortality;improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, andother diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; anddevelop a global partnership for development. MADRE pro-vides resources and training to enable our sister organiza-tions to meet immediate needs in their communities anddevelop long-term solutions to the crises they face. Sincewe began in 1983, MADRE has delivered over 21 million dollars worth of support to community-based women'sgroups in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East,Africa, the Balkans, Asia, and the United States.

Newsletter StaffEDITORS: Yifat Susskind and Jessica KarpDESIGN: Amy Thesing

front cover photos: New Orleans after HurricaneKatrina. © DAVID RAE MORRIS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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RIGHTS RESERVED; (center) © ELIZABETH RAPPAPORT

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Board of DirectorsAnne H. Hess

Dr. Zala Highsmith-Taylor

Andaye De La Cruz

Hilda Díaz

Linda Flores-Rodríguez

Holly Maguigan

Margaret Ratner

Marie Saint Cyr

Pam Spees

SponsorsJulie Belafonte

Vinie Burrows

Dr. Johnnetta Cole

Blanche Wiesen Cook

Clare Coss

Alexis De Veaux

Kathy Engel

Roberta Flack

Devon Fredericks

Eleanore Kennedy

Isabel Letelier

Audre Lorde, 1934-1992

Mary Lumet

Patricia Maher

Monica Melamid

Hon. Ruth Messinger

Holly Near

Dr. Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

Grace Paley

Bernice Reagon

Chita Rivera

Helen Rodríguez-Trías, M.D., 1929-2001

Digna Sánchez

Sonia Sánchez

Yolanda Sánchez

Susan Sarandon

Julia R. Scott

Susan L. Taylor

Marjorie Tuite, 1922-1986

Alice Walker

Joanne Woodward

Billie Jean Young

Executive DirectorVivian Stromberg

A BIG THANKS TO OUR WONDERFUL INTERNS!

Gretchen Begley

Ali Blandford

ElizabethEhrenberg

Ariel Jacobson

Cody Keffer

Jennifer Lee

Abigail McClure

Karen Nassi

Denisse Wolfenzon

Summer Wood

BUSH’S “ENTERPRISE ZONE” Along the Gulf Coast, reconstruction after HurricaneKatrina quickly became a theatre for Bush’s dream econo-my. Bush suspended taxation in hurricane-hit areas andvowed to pay for reconstruction by cutting existing (read:social) programs. Within two months, House Republicanswere pushing to slash food stamp funding by $1 billion; cutMedicaid access and benefits, and force another 10 hours ofwork from families on welfare. Bush also announced plansfor the country’s largest school voucher program: nearly halfa million dollars for displaced families to send their childrento private schools, including religious schools. As right-wing economist Milton Friedman once said, school vouchers “are not an end in themselves; they are a means tomake a transition from a government to a market system.”

That transition is already quite advanced. By now, manypeople in the US take it for granted that corporations havereplaced government in providing basic services, rangingfrom health care to utilities to transportation. As serviceshave been transformed from citizens’ rights to consumerproducts, poor people have lost access and more peoplehave become poor as they struggle to pay for health care,child care, and other services once guaranteed by the government. As in the Global South, the trend hits womenthe hardest. That’s because women have fewer financialresources to begin with and because women are mainlyresponsible for meeting their families’ basic needs—especially when the government stops providing services.

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Architecture of a Failing State

The Bush Administration’s disastrous response to HurricaneKatrina has focused public attention on a dangerous dynamicin the United States. Like few other events in recent memory,

Katrina exposed the giant vacuum created by the government’sabdication of its essential responsibilities and attempts by corpora-tions, the religious right, and the military to fill that void.

The economic policies Bush enacted in the aftermath of Katrina, including privatizing and dismantling basicservices, are the same ones the US has been exportingfor decades. Many of MADRE’s programs—like this foodsecurity project in Nicaragua—work to meet the needsof communities denied basic rights and resources as aresult of US-driven policies.

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BLURRING THE LINE BETWEENCHURCH AND STATE After Hurricane Katrina, more than half a million people took refuge in facilities that churches ran at therequest of state governments. In Mississippi, one of thebiggest relief efforts was organized by Operation SaveAmerica (formerly OperationRescue). The virulently anti-abor-tion group, whose tactics includeclinic blockades and other vio-lence, handed out Bibles andtracts along with food aid whileits director preached to evacueesin the organization’s shelters. Andfor the first time ever, the federalgovernment will pay churches fortheir relief efforts.

Though the line betweenchurch and state was perhaps atits blurriest in the weeks afterHurricane Katrina, the attack onthe separation of church andstate began when Bush tookoffice in 2000. Since then, Bush’s

White House, with its prayer breakfasts and Biblicalrhetoric, has become emblematic of the integration ofreligion into the US political system. MADRE hasalways worked with religious people whose commit-ment to democracy and human rights is informeddirectly by their faith. In fact, the religious communityhas been at the forefront of US movements for abolitionand civil rights, and for peace in Vietnam, CentralAmerica, and Iraq. This tradition is an expression ofreligious ethics, such as non-violence, justice, compas-sion, and respect for nature; it stands in sharp contrastto fundamentalism, which works to turn arbitrary andabsolutist interpretations of religion into public policy.

By empowering fundamentalist organizations in thewake of Hurricane Katrina, the Bush Administrationboth shirked its obligation to provide disaster relief andtrampled the line between church and state. While theright-wing likes to talk about “culture wars,” the faultline in the US today is not between religious and non-religious people, but between advocates of human rightsand secular democracy, and fundamentalists who manip-ulate religion to pursue a reactionary social agenda.

DISASTER RELIEF AS URBAN WARFARE Since 9/11, Bush has transferred funds, professionalstaff, and equipment from civil defense to the military.As we now know, that decision turned the FederalEmergency Management Agency (FEMA) into anempty husk. Just as importantly, it made the militarythe only arm of government capable of responding

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Public Pressure Stops Bush’s Corporate Hand-OutsAfter Hurricane Katrina, Bush awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to companies withclose ties to his Administration, including Halliburton (formerly run by Vice President Dick Cheney) and Bechtel.Bush also overrode the law requiring these companies topay the locally prevailing minimum wage to constructionworkers in the Gulf States. But thanks to public pressurefrom Labor, Democrats, and progressive groups, theWhite House was forced to reverse both policies.

effectively to disaster. “I think we turned the corner [inNew Orleans] last Friday,” Louisiana Senator DavidVitter said in early September. “But the reason we didit—and we need to be clear about this—is because wemade it a massive military operation.”

There are individual soldiers who took risks to res-cue people after Hurricane Katrina and their effortsshould be commended. But there’s a fundamentalproblem with treating disaster relief as a combat mis-sion: combat requires an enemy. In New Orleans, theabandoned survivors of Hurricane Katrina, who weremostly poor people of color, became that enemy. AsLouisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco said of thetroops sent to the city directly from Iraq: “They haveM-16s and they’re locked and loaded. These troopsknow how to shoot and kill, and they are more thanwilling to do so, and I expect they will.”

Civilians—whether in New Orleans or Baghdad—should not be the targets of combat operations. That’swhy we were alarmed to see the US 82nd Airbornepatrolling flooded neighborhoods in Louisiana. Theseare not “first responders,” but soldiers who are trainedto kill. Members of this division stand accused of tor-turing prisoners in Iraq and raping a child in Kosovo.Like the separation of church and state, maintaininga distinction between the army and domestic lawenforcement is a core principle of democracy—onethat should not be sacrificed in the name of fightingterrorism or responding to natural disasters.

CHARTING A NEW COURSE “Failed state” is a US State Department term usuallyreserved for impoverished countries that the US tar-gets for military intervention, like Afghanistan, Haiti,and Liberia. But in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, it’salso a term that resonates with our perception of theUS itself: a state that fails to protect its citizens or pro-vide even basic services. Naming and exploring thisdynamic enables us to take stock of current condi-tions in the US so that we can work to change course.

In fact, for many people, Hurricane Katrina opened aspace for new kinds of conversation about what kind ofcountry this is and what kind of country we want it tobe. As we spend time with family and friends during theholidays, let’s continue to engage in these conversations.Let people know that despite all the divisive talk aboutRed States and Blue States this year, the vast majority ofpeople in the US want to see policies that challenge thedestructive trend that became so visible in the wake ofHurricane Katrina. According to studies by the ChicagoCouncil on Foreign Relations, more than three-quartersof people in the US want increased health care, educa-tion, and Social Security. That’s just one example of a starting point for conversation that can unite broad sectors of people around better policies. u

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This year, with your support...IRAQViolence against Women >AS VIOLENCE continues in Iraq,MADRE is workingwith our partners

at the Organization ofWomen’s Freedom in Iraq(OWFI) to provide shelter and human rights training towomen fleeing rape, domes-tic violence, and “honorkillings,” which have allsoared since the US invasion.This year, with MADRE’s support, OWFI opened afourth women’s shelter inthe Iraqi city of Nasariyeh.

NICARAGUA & PERUWomen’s health and reproductive rights>IN NICARAGUA, MADRE IS HELPING TO EXPANDCADAMUC clinic. CADAMUC, which was the firstwomen’s health clinic on Nicaragua’s North AtlanticCoast, now serves approximately 6,000 people ayear. The new construction will give the clinic atotal of five rooms: two for OB/GYN care, one forpediatric service, one for dental services, and apharmacy.

>IN PERU, MADRE SENT SUPPORT TO OUR SISTERorganization, LUNDU, to hold trainings for youngAfro-descendant women about sexual and reproduc-tive rights. The trainings, which used video and artto engage participants, enabled young women todevelop their capacity as leaders and strengthentheir ties to their heritage and communities.

COLOMBIAArmed conflict and forced displacement>IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TALLER DE VIDA, OUR sister organization, MADRE supported Reinventing

Life through Art, a program for women and young peopledisplaced by the war. As part of this program, Taller deVida runs a youth center in Bogotá offering classes in theatre, dance, and film; and supports small-scale, women-run economic development projects. The young people ofTaller de Vida recently used MADRE’s support to produce a film called “La Escuela Desplazada” (“The DisplacedSchool”), featuring their personal stories of displacementand conflict.

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KENYAIndigenous Women’s Rights >MADRE CONTRIBUTED A NEW TRUCK TO THEIndigenous Information Network (IIN), our sister organization in Kenya. The truck enables IIN membersto reach isolated, rural communities, bringing humanrights training and health education to Indigenouswomen in Kenya. Through our Helping Hands campaign,MADRE also donated school supplies to a pre-school in Umoja, which serves 50 Indigenous children and promotes education as a basic human right amongnomadic, pastoral communities in Kenya.

>MADRE ALSO WORKED WITH IIN TO SPONSOR AN EXCHANGEbetween Indigenous women activists from Nicaragua, Kenya,,and the United States. As part of the exchange, the director of MADRE’s Nicaraguan sister organization, Wangki Tangni, conducted trainings on women’s health, reproductive rights, and Indigenous rights in three rural Indigenous communities in Kenya.

SRI LANKAEconomic Justice andCommunity Development>MADRE IS FACILITATING THEefforts of INFORM, our sister orga-nization, to ensure that women areable to participate fully in deci-sions regarding resettlement andreconstruction after the tsunami,and that land for resettlement isallocated in a non-discriminatoryfashion. Recently, MADRE helpedestablish community centers thatwill offer services for people whosurvived the tsunami and supportinitiatives to ensure that therebuilding process reflects theneeds of all community members.


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>IN THE US, MADRE CONTINUES TO demand an endto the war against Iraq and raise awareness aboutthreats to women’s rights in US-occupied Iraq.

>MADRE’S “HOUSE PARTY” CAMPAIGN OFFERS an online toolkit for people to host parties in their communities to raise awareness in the US about thecrisis facing Iraqi women, and gather support to sendto our sisters in Iraq. To find out how you can getinvolved, visit www.madre.org.


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>THE YEAR BEGAN IN THE WAKE OF THEAsian tsunami, one of the worst natural disas-ters of all time. MADRE members’ quick andgenerous response enabled our Sri Lankan sis-ter organization, INFORM, to set up emergencyhealth centers where survivors received emer-gency medical attention, clean drinking water,and trauma counseling.

>THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, THE SUPPORT OFMADRE members also enabled us to respondto natural disasters in Cuba, Guatemala,Pakistan, and the United States. As in SriLanka, MADRE’s support made it possible fororganizations working at the community levelto respond quickly and efficiently to distribute

aid with an awareness of the specific needsof women and families.

>MADRE RESPONDED TO HURRICANEDennis in Cuba with a shipment of$744,000 worth of anti-parasite medicinefor women and families; Hurricane Katrinain Louisiana with support for the LouisianaCoalition Against Domestic Violence’sefforts to provide emergency aid and safehousing to battered women displaced by thestorm; Hurricane Stan in Guatemala withdonations of food, water, medicine, and blan-kets for women and families in marginalizedcommunities engulfed by the storm and themudslides that followed; and the Octoberearthquake in Pakistan with support to provide food, blankets, and temporary shelters in devastated rural communities.

>THIS YEAR, MADRE EXPANDED OURmedia program to more widely commu-nicate the daily realities of womenaffected by US policy around the world.MADRE’s commentary and analysis wasfeatured on: Democracy Now!, NPR, AirAmerica Radio, Pacifica Radio, ForeignPolicy in Focus, Common Dreams,TomPaine.com, Between the Lines, andmany newspapers including: New YorkNewsday, Toronto Star, Detroit FreePress, Los Angeles Daily News, FortWorth Star Telegram, Monterey CountyHerald, Columbia Daily Tribune, and The Virginian Pilot, among others.MA

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For a more in-depth look at MADRE’s programs, we invite you to visit us at www.madre.org.

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In the wake of disasters like the Asian tsunami orHurricane Katrina, we may find it comforting tosee big international agencies taking charge ofrelief and reconstruction efforts. But large-scale

relief operations are not always best suited to meet theneeds of those most threatened by disaster. Certainly,international agencies—with their resources, know-how, technology, and access to government—have acritical role to play, but their expertise is best utilizedin the service of local organizations. Often, however,we see international aid agencies coming into a crisiswith little practical experience for addressing its particularities and with little regard for those whohave been working in the affected community sincelong before the disaster.

A member of MADRE’s Sri Lankan sister organiza-tion described this scenario after last year’s tsunami:“The international agencies moved in and immediate-ly began spending huge sums of money, setting upoffices in five-star hotels, buying SUVs.. .Within aweek they had artificially inflated the economy.” Localgroups simply could not afford to function.

Sri Lankan community-based organizations experi-enced another common—and detrimental—side effectof large-scale relief efforts: a brain drain. “The interna-tional agencies lured the best-trained people from thecommunity-based groups,” said the director of onelocal organization. In fact, local organizations some-times collapse after losing their core staff to higher-pay-ing agencies during a critical time. As for the highsalaries, they disappear as soon as the internationalorganizations leave for the next high-profile crisis.

Rather than replicate the work of existing organi-zations, MADRE works in partnership with localwomen’s groups grappling with disaster. In 1998,Hurricane Mitch devastated Nicaragua’s NorthAtlantic Coast. Decades of government neglectpushed some Indigenous communities off the map ofrelief operations. Responders didn’t know wherethese villages were, much less how to reach them inflood conditions. But MADRE delivered aid directlyto women who had grown up in the region. Theyknew where every family lived, which householdshad new babies or disabled elders, and how to reachremote communities by canoe.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, MADRE mobi-lized community support services for battered women.Our work with women around the world has shown

that domestic violence escalates in every natural disas-ter, and that in big relief operations, already-marginal-ized people are usually the ones who “fall through thecracks.” After Katrina, for example, many batteredwomen didn’t use missing person registries for fear thatthey would enable their abusers to find them.

Women are often hardest hit when disaster strikesbecause they are over-represented among the poorand often have no safety net. Women are also primarily responsible for those made most vulnerableby disaster—children, the elderly, and people whoare ill or disabled. Yet, it’s not enough to ensure thatwomen receive aid. Women in communities mustalso be integral to designing and carrying out reliefefforts. When relief is distributed by women, it hasthe best chance of reaching those most in need.

Community-based organizations—especially wo-men’s organizations—are a crucial resource in disaster response. Natural disasters are always localevents and women in the community have expertiseabout problems women and their families face. They have pre-existing networks for sharing informa-tion and scarce resources, and for extending social and emotional support to survivors. For all of these reasons, the leadership of local women’s organizationsis crucial in disaster relief. u

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From Disaster to Development: COMMUNITY WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP IN TIMES OF CRISIS

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Support MADREHOST A HOUSE PARTY TOSUPPORT IRAQI WOMENMADRE is mobilizing people around the US tohost parties to raise awareness of the crisis facingIraqi women and support Iraq’s only network ofwomen’s shelters. Get your free tool kit today!MORE INFO: www.madre.org •

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HOST A MADRE SPEAKER It’s a terrific opportunity to spread awareness about USforeign policy and women’s human rights strugglesaround the world, and raise support for MADRE’sprograms. Our spring tour will address AfricanIndigenous women’s struggle for human rights.MORE INFO: www.madre.org/speakers •


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