Amy Goodman
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How Sweden's Feminist Initiative Party Became First of its Kind to Win a Seat in European Parliament
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9:37Now PlayingIn May, Sweden's Feminist Initiative party won a seat in the European Parliament, becoming the first feminist party in history to do so. We are joined by the party's cofounder, Gudrun Schyman, a former member of the Swedish parliament. Schyman talks about the Feminist Initiative's focus on climate change, antiracism and connecting the violence in intimate relationships to the violence in international relations. "The patriarch structure is global, and it shows in all fields of society, in your intimate relations, in the labor market," Schyman says. "We have to ban violence, and we have to see that the role of violence is always control, always power."
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