Our member Joelle Hatem has produced a video showcasing achievements in women’s rights in Lebanon and examples of what remains to be done.

The video was produced for our training program “Ghayreh 3adtik Bitzeed S3adtik – Feminist Tools for Change” which aims at empowering women with the knowledge, tools and resources to bring about change from a feminist perspective.

The message of the video is simple: Change is possible. We just have to work on it.

If you’d like to us to take the training program to your university, school, organization or group, please write to farah[at]nasawiya.org.

Since the beginning of the year, we’ve been traveling Lebanon with our training program “Ghayreh 3adtik Bitzeed S3adtik” – Feminist Tools for Change.

Primarily targeted at young women, the objective of the program is to provide them with the knowledge, tools and resources on organizing for change, be it by undertaking legal reform, grassroots pressure, building a community, raising awareness, creating support groups, or running for public office – all from a feminist perspective.

To help us promote the program, we’re developing a poster campaign. We’re looking for women aged 18 – 40 years with expressive faces to front the campaign. We’re looking for women who’d be able to express a wide range of emotions such as joy, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, anticipation, sadness, disappointment, awe, and frustration.

If you’d like to take part in one of our photo shoots, please email farah@nasawiya.org, attaching a portrait of yourself.

A big thank you to all the fans, friends and supporters who suggested feminist slogans to us. This is the selection of feminist taglines we’ve short-listed following your online submissions and our additional brainstorming sessions.

To vote for your favorite feminist slogans, kindly tick no more than 8 choices. We’re planning to produce 4 T-Shirts, 2 bags and 2 stickers (equally divided between Arabic and English).

Voting closes Friday, July 9, 2010.

We’re planning to roll out feminist T-Shirts in the coming weeks and we’d like to ask for  your suggestions for catchy feminist slogans.

Slogans can be in English, Arabic (colloquial or classical) or French. You can send as many as you can think of.

We’ll choose the catchiest ones and print them on our T-Shirts.

So, yalla, put your creative thinking caps on and post your slogans in the below comment box.

The comments will be closed on Friday, 18 June 2010.

Nasawiya calls on the international feminist community to add their voices to these wonderful women’s organizations who have issued statements condemning the vicious Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla on May 31, 2010. We urge you to stand in solidarity with the 700 brave activists who put their lives on the line in order to break the siege in Gaza, Palestine. There is no real justice for women anywhere without justice for the millions of Palestinian women living in exile, under occupation, under the apartheid regime of Israel, in illegal prisons, and/or under daily military economic, political, gender, and sexual violence. Please add your voices to the Avaaz petition, read the following statements by international women’s rights organizations, and leave us a comment if you know of any other feminist statements made so we can add them here.

• Global Fund for Women Condemns Israeli Attack on Freedom Flotilla
• Nobel Women’s Initiative condemns Gaza flotilla attack
• MADRE Condemns Israel’s Killing of Activists Bringing Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
• Women for Women’s Human Rights condemns the violence and offensive policies employed by the Israeli state
• CODEPINK Condemns Israeli Attack on Gaza Flotilla
• Aswat-Palestinian Queer Women Condemns Israel’s Raid on Gaza Aid Flotilla
• Association for Women in Development (AWID) Condemns Israeli Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla (Read the statement in French and Spanish.)