'BABAE, BABAWI' pays tribute to the struggles of women

On March 26, 2022, 4-9PM at Village B, Brgy. UP Campus, Quezon City, SAKA (Sama-samang Artista para sa Kilusang Agraryo), RUWA (Rural Women’s Advocates), and Farmers Center for Agroecology Services will participate in the celebration of the international month of working women through a Working and Peasant Women’s Fair.

As part of the Fair, the book Gabay sa Agroecology will be launched at 4PM, followed by a gig to show solidarity with the struggle of women farmers, agricultural workers, and laborers. Standing with these revolutionary women, these musicians will be performing at the gig: Catpuke, Faith Corvatch, Lolit Solid, Mao, Project Yazz, Shanti, Tao, and The Bleaching Hour.

This event underscores the significant contribution of women to our communities, politics, and economy. Even in the most developed areas of our country, the care work performed by women—whether paid or unpaid—is an unseen and undervalued contribution to our personal, domestic, and national economies. The time women spend in managing households and raising children is time freed up for others to engage in productive work.

On top of performing care work, most women also participate directly in production—suffering through inequality in spaces that are already exploitative in the first place. In a country with a national minimum wage that is barely half of a family living wage,* those in informal work are not guaranteed the standard wage, and women even less.

This is probably why women can always be seen at the forefront of the struggle—fighting for human rights, decent wages, free land distribution, and national industrialization—because progress that emancipates workers and peasants from exploitation inherently emancipates women too. By giving women the power to care, to work, and to lead, we will build a society that is truly just and free.

So join us on March 26 to celebrate the women who hold up half our sky!