About AF3IRM

 AF3IRM is a national organization of women engaged in transnational feminist, anti-imperialist activism and dedicated to the fight against oppression in all its forms.  AF3IRM’s diverse, multi-ethnic membership is committed to militant movement-building in the United States and effects change through grassroots organizing, trans-ethnic alliance building, education, advocacy and direct action.

With the slogan “a woman’s place is at the head of the struggle,” AF3IRM is an all-volunteer, grassroots organization whose members recognize the intersectionality of their struggles and the absolute necessity of women’s revolutionary resistance. With a history of over 20 years of women’s organizing, activism, and struggle, AF3IRM was launched as a organization in 2010, based on a comprehensive analysis of class, race, gender, and sexuality focused on conducting militant movement-building from the United States with a transnational, feminist perspective. In its previous formation as GABNet, we engaged in work from a national democratic perspective, emphasizing support and solidarity for the Philippine movement.  After an assessment of our previous work and continued engagement with the struggles and issues of women and our communities, we have moved toward a comprehensive theory-building and practice based on the concrete conditions of our own home territory, the United States, in assessment of and full knowledge of the essence and specific characteristics of our oppression and exploitation as women; as imported or exploited labor or children/descendants of such; and as women of distinct ethnic and cultural minorities.

Our view of the diaspora from so many countries is encapsulated by the Balete Tree, known as the abode of spirits in pre-Dominion Philippines, when an understanding of the unity between humans and nature was the prevailing philosophy. It is a species of the fig family and can survive seemingly forever. The Balete puts forth aerial roots which, seeking the ground, become more conduits for the mother tree. This is how we perceive (im)migrants, many of whom keep their homeland economies afloat with remittances.

Email: TC @ af3irm.org Website: www.af3irm.org