Acción 3

This is a video documentation of an 'acción' performed inside of a State Judiciary building in La Paz, Bolivia. Mujeres Creando filled the building's hall with pieces of paper, to demand an actual and functional justice for all the cases of rape and murders against women. Considering that the notion of 'justice' seems to be reduced to meaningless paperwork that does not solve anything, Mujeres Creando claim that 'justice' in Bolivia is bought by privileges of class and race, and that there is no justice for the dispossessed. Through the acción of disrupting the building's routine, and through the use of voices and singing, Mujeres Creando bring the voices of women who have not received justice.

Mujeres Creando is a feminist anarchist movement created in 1990 in La Paz, Bolivia. It is comprised of women of different cultural, social, and ethnic origins, and explores creativity as an instrument of resistance and social participation. The three women who founded this communitarian proposal (Maria Galindo, Julieta Paredes, and Monica Mendoza) worked together to recover the public space that the patriarchal system appropriated. In this sense, the group does not only struggle for women's rights or issues that affect women, but also against other problems that affect society. The ways of expression of Mujeres Creando are graffiti, creativity, ongoing public debates, and acciones, along with a constant presence in the streets to reclaim a voice and participation in the public sphere. Since its beginnings, the group has been part of international gatherings, dialoguing with different feminist tendencies and thus being able to build its ideological identity within the autonomous feminism, in contrast and in connection with global struggles. In April 2001, due to ethical and political disagreements, there was a division in the group, which brought the necessity to differentiate names. In spite of this divergence, Maria Galindo continues working with Mujeres Creando in Bolivia.