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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stephone

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Speaker 2: And we're back with another round of Feminists around the World.

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Speaker 2: And I'm sure many of you are actually more eagerly

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Speaker 2: around the World and all that goodness, especially with Annie

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Speaker 2: bringing it during the spooky season. I know it's gonna

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Speaker 2: be good. But we're back to the regular schedule program.

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Speaker 2: I am a little healthier. I'm still coughing, which is disconcerting,

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Speaker 2: but no worries, you know. And he's gotten many a

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Speaker 2: good things up our sleeves. Yes, and it is her

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Speaker 2: favorite time of month, so just watch out. But it's

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Speaker 2: also and with our favorite season comes Hispanic Heritage Month,

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Speaker 2: which we also love and respect as well. So for today,

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Speaker 2: he's a feminist around the world. We are talking about

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Speaker 2: the iconic feminist activists. And y'all, I just figured out

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Speaker 2: that I've been saying this country wrong my entire life,

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Speaker 2: so it's an adjustment for myself. If I get it wrong,

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Speaker 2: please don't yell at me. If y'all think it I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to be snobbish. I promise you I'm not. But

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Speaker 2: according to Forbo, who is not a sponsor at this

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Speaker 2: point in time, I've been saying it completely wrong. But

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Speaker 2: we're talking about the country of Uruguay, and I really

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Speaker 2: hope I did that right. If I didn't, sorry, correct

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Speaker 2: me nicely, pleased. But for today's feminists around the world,

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Speaker 2: we are talking about Lillian Adrasinskas, and again, I hope

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Speaker 2: I got that pronunciation right. Went through a lot of YouTube,

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Speaker 2: really hard to find translation and pronunciation. If y'all know

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Speaker 2: the pronunciation better, Again, correct me nicely, because I do

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Speaker 2: want to know if I'm saying it wrong. But that

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Speaker 2: will never stop us from talking about her amazing works.

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Speaker 2: She has been a fixture in the Uruguay and feminist

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Speaker 2: community and has been hard at work to change and

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Speaker 2: continue to help the marginalized community in her country.

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Speaker 1: Aversinskaz has worked to fight for sexual and reproductive rights

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Speaker 1: in Uruguay for almost forty years now, and in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety six she founded the major Salud Are Women and

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Speaker 1: Health Uruguay, which focuses on working to fight and obtain

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Speaker 1: sexual and reproductive rights. Here's some information from NYSU dot

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Speaker 1: org dot uy. They work quote to exercise sexual and

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Speaker 1: reproductive rights, each person must have the capacity and power

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Speaker 1: to make free and informed decisions about their reproductive life

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Speaker 1: and sexuality. And here's some more information from Globalfundwomen dot org.

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Speaker 1: A grantee partner with MYSU, Moyer A Salude works in

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Speaker 1: four areas monitoring communication, influencing policymakers, and training. And in

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Speaker 1: that same article they quote Abrazinskas who says sexual and

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Speaker 1: reproductive rights are the fundamental terrain for the struggle for rights,

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Speaker 1: because once we've attained them, it's much easier to fight

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Speaker 1: for economic autonomy, for educational autonomy, and labor rights and others.

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Speaker 2: Right and that's something she and the organization has been

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Speaker 2: pushing in order to keep fighting for autonomy. After legislation

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Speaker 2: passed for abortion rights in twenty twelve. In Uruguay, MISU

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Speaker 2: or YSU have worked fast to spread information on reproductive

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Speaker 2: rights and have tried to increase awareness for the bigger

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Speaker 2: picture in the country. In two thousand and seven, the

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Speaker 2: organization started a watch group to report and monitor sexual

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Speaker 2: and reproductive rights and needs. Here's another quote from the

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Speaker 2: Global Fund for Women quote Muheri Salud began a watch

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Speaker 2: group on gender and sexual and reproductive health to monitor

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Speaker 2: birth control, birth and post natal services, domestic and sexual violence,

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Speaker 2: sexually transmitted disease, abortion and services to teams to check

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Speaker 2: how public policies and services are working. Along with research

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Speaker 2: and monitoring, the group carries out regular surveys and research

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Speaker 2: projects that provide important information for increasing the equality and

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Speaker 1: And After the passing the abortion law, which is still

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Speaker 1: pretty restrict even with its whins, Miysu and Abrasiska's worked

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Speaker 1: when anti rights groups tried to have it repealed. In today,

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Speaker 1: keep in place, as well as expanding. Abraziskas told Global

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Speaker 1: Fund for US the issues of women's bodies, their freedom,

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Speaker 1: their autonomy is a big part of the struggle for

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Speaker 1: women's empowerment and emancipation in a patriarchal system. It's very

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Speaker 1: She pointed out that oftentimes it is these rights and

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Speaker 2: Right, of course, her work with me Sue is not

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Speaker 2: the only thing under her resume. Abersiinska is also as

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Speaker 2: responsible for a many of things, including the National Observatory

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Speaker 2: the ability the exercise of human rights. She founded the

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Speaker 2: and feminist movement and feminist political communication. She also represented

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Speaker 2: social organizations such as the National Advisory Commission on Sexual

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Speaker 2: and the National Commission of Bioethics and Comprehensive Quality of Healthcare,

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Speaker 2: as well as the National Commissions to Fight A's and

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Speaker 2: Task Force by the Secretary General of the United Nations

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Speaker 2: in twenty eleven.

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Speaker 1: And she has been hard at work with the MISSU

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Speaker 1: or I've been saying NYSU whichever to continue to ensure gender,

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Speaker 1: sexual and reproductive rights in Uruguay and all over the world.

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Speaker 1: She recently spoke with a famous feminist in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two about the ongoing fight for justice and equal rights, saying,

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Speaker 1: the fight never ends. We have to always be vigilant,

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Speaker 1: and with the political changes that we have seen happen

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Speaker 1: the world, including Uruguay, we know that we all have

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Speaker 1: to be vigilant and continue to push and fight. When

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Speaker 1: We still have to fight this forever and continues on.

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Speaker 1: It reminds us that we cannot rely solely on the

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Speaker 1: judiciary to guarantee our rights. The members of the court

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Speaker 1: change and you lose your rights. We cannot have courts

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Speaker 1: giving and then taking away rights like this. We need

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Speaker 1: to change the social contract. Changes in law, yes, sure,

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Speaker 1: but also changes in politics and power. These are bigger

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Speaker 2: She even gave advice for us working to protect the

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Speaker 2: reproductive rice in the US. She said, don't focus only

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Speaker 2: on abortion. The political conditions for all of sexual and

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Speaker 2: reproductive health for rights and justice and reproduction and sexuality

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Speaker 2: more broadly are key road your work to engage in

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Speaker 2: the political and economic justice debates in your country and

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Speaker 2: mobilize that way. This has been one of our most

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Speaker 2: successful strategies in our region. We have allied with social

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Speaker 2: justice forces, the labor movement, the environmental movement, the students.

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Speaker 2: I feel the abortion question has been too siloed in

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Speaker 2: like the pill. That's all fine, but it's too narrow.

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Speaker 2: We need to reframe. Now what kind of world do

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Speaker 2: we want? And Yeah, I think this is such a

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Speaker 2: important it is and the fact that yes, this is

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Speaker 2: bigger picture, that it doesn't affect. And we've talked about

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Speaker 2: the battlement comes to the queer community as well as

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Speaker 2: racial quality movements. There's so many conversations that we have

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Speaker 2: to include. And she even goes into a whole conversation

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Speaker 2: was like, ooh, she's calling them out and I love it.

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Speaker 2: But it's such a good conversation. I think she's so right,

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Speaker 2: and she's been working at this for over fifty years

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Speaker 2: and has been a huge part of what they've been

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Speaker 2: over the world. So good advice, I think.

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Speaker 1: Yes, excellent advice. I agree, I agree, yes, And hopefully

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