The second in our animated short film series

As we celebrate the International Day of Rural Women (October 15, 2021), WoMin is pleased to launch the second in our series of animated short films – The Right to Say NO: Women Defend Africa’s Wealth.

This film shows some of the ways in which rural, peasant and working-class women and communities across Africa resist the theft of Africa’s wealth – land, forests, water bodies and species – and assert their Right to Say NO. A follow up to the first film, Polluters & Plunderers: The Roots of Africa’s Crises, this tells the story of women and their communities’ resistances to an economic system which steals their livelihoods, exploits their labour, destroys the ecosystems upon which Life depends, and is ultimately causing planetary crisis. In this resistance and defence of people and nature, women and communities are also putting forward different visions of Africa, so that we all can claim the Right to Say YES to life and a better world for us all.

With the upcoming COP26 in Scotland  the voices of women and marginalised communities in the Global South are once again at the periphery whilst the real and ever-growing climate crisis impacts Africa and Africans, who have contributed least to a rapidly warming planet.  This powerful animation explores the different ways in which women and their communities are resisting resource grabs and asserting their Right to Say NO.

The next film in this series, to be released in early-2022, specifically expands on the alternatives to dominant development which women and their communities are protecting and proposing in their organising and their resistances.