La Via Campesina | Newsletter | April Edition
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PEASANTS MOBILISE TO MARK TWO DECADES OF STRUGGLE TO DEFEND LAND AND
LIFE
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With hundreds of actions taking placed in all continents [3] peasants
and their allies are united in solidarity to defend their land and to
push back the frontal assault on their fellow people in all parts of the
world. The actions, led locally by peasant organisations who are members
of La Via Campesina and by many other groups, collectives and
organisations, involve reclaiming grabbed lands, demonstrations against
agro-business models, food sovereignty fairs, seed exchanges, video
screenings, conferences and more. (READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE
[4]). This edition of the newsletter brings to you highlights from
actions that took place around the world.
#17APRIL2016 | HIGHLIGHTS
'THE MARABA DECLARATION'
_From the International Conference of Agrarian Reform, Maraba, Para,
Brazil_
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"We are organizations of peasants, family farmers, indigenous peoples,
landless, farm workers, herders, fisherfolk, collectors, forest
dwellers, rural women and youth, as well as allied organizations from
across the world. We are here to remember the massacre of rural workers
in El Dorado dos Carajás, Pará, which took place exactly 20 years ago
and led to the creation of the International Day of Peasant Struggle,
celebrated every year on April 17th. We are also here to demand that the
governments of the world follow through on their commitments to agrarian
reform, made 10 years ago at the FAO's International Conference on
Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD) in Porto Alegre, Brazil."
CLICK TO READ THE FULL DECLARATION [5]
EVERY DAY SHOULD BE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEASANTS' STRUGGLES
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The 20th anniversary of the International Day of Peasants' and Farmers'
Struggle was marked on Sunday - a date that highlights the persecution
and violence suffered by peasants and farmers around the world.
It's probably a date not many people have even heard of. Another one of
those "international days of something really, really important" that
passes by almost daily. But consider this: Peasants and small farmers
make up half of the world's population and grow at least 70% of our
food, using less than 30% of agricultural resources.
READ MORE > [6]
DHAKA: SOLIDARITY ACTION BY BAFLF & NWFA
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Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF) and National
Women Farmers & Workers Association (NWFA) have observed the
International Day of Peasants Struggle to commemorate the massacre of
landless farmers in Brazil as well as the recent killing of farmers and
landless defenders for struggling their land, food and livelihood
throughout the world including Bangladesh, Honduras, Columbia,
Philippines and Brazil. To mark the Day, BAFLF and NWFA organized a
rally in Gazipur, Dhaka.
READ MORE> [7]
LONDON: THE LANDWORKERS' ALLIANCE: PUBLIC LAND FOR PUBLIC GOOD
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The Landworkers' Alliance (LWA) hung a 7m banner over the entrance to
the treasury today to highlight the continued sell off of publicly owned
farmland and council housing under the Government's austerity programme.
The action took place as part of La Via Campesina's 'International day
of Agrarian Struggle' that will see co-ordinated actions across more
than 70 countries highlighting threats to the livelihoods of 200 million
ecological and family farmers worldwide. The LWA's action focused on the
9,500 acres of publicly owned farmland and 219 working farms that have
been sold by local councils since 2010 under pressure from the
Government to raise capital and meet fiscal deficits.
READ MORE> [8]
BUCHAREST: THE RIGHT TO FOOD SOVEREIGNTY – PUBLIC PEASANT CONSULTATION
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Eco Ruralis Association together with partners, held the Conference for
The Right to Food Sovereignty - public peasant consultation - on 24
April, 2016, at the Conference Center of the National Statistics
Institute of Romania (Libertății Bvd., no. 16, sector 5, Bucharest). It
was be the first time that Romania hosts a Food Sovereignty event,
putting peasants in the center of decisions for the future of farming
and food.
READ MORE> [9]
BANGALORE: MIGRANT PEASANTS LAUNCHED THE ORGANISATION IN THE CITY ON
APRIL 17
NAIROBI: KENYAN PEASANTS LEAGUE HELD AN ACTIVITY AT THE FREEDOM CORNER
IN NAIROBI TO MARK THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY
PALESTINE: UAWC'S STATEMENT ON THE OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL PEASANT DAY
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The largest peasant movement in the world, La Via Campesina,
commemorated on the 17th April, the international Peasant Day, that
commemorates the massacre of 19 landless farmers demanding access to
land and justice in 1996. This day is also the Palestinian prisoners'
day, a day of commemoration in honor of our detainees. Also, it came few
days after the Palestinian Land Day, a day when all the Palestinian
people have revolutionized to defend the Palestinian land from the
settlers' confiscation.
READ MORE > [10]
USA: STATEMENT BY USFSA ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEASANTS AND FARMERS
STRUGGLES - APRIL 17TH
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The US Food Sovereignty Alliance calls for mobilizations for food
sovereignty and food justice that put food producers - farmers, workers,
urban gardeners, fishermen - back in control of their land and their
food. April 17th is an important day in the struggle for food
sovereignty.
READ MORE> [11]
KARACHI: PFF OPPOSES CAPITALISM MODEL OF AGRICULTURE TO SAVE LAND AND
LIVELIHOODS
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Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) has launched a week-long mobilization
campaign with peasants in Sindh province to commemorate the
International Day of Peasants' and Farmers' Struggle, scheduled on April
17, 2016. The theme of the world peasant day for this year is ' Life,
Land, and Healthy Food'. PFF chairperson Muhammad Ali Shah in a
statement issued on Wednesday said they are going to express solidarity
with world peasants.
READ MORE> [12]
ECVC: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEASANT STRUGGLES 2016: CELEBRATION,
RESISTANCE AND MOURNING
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This 17th of April, reasserting our demands for land and rights,
honoring those that have paid this struggle with their lives, and
celebrating our peasant movement, ECVC and its members carried out a
series of actions, conferences, farmer's markets throughout the
continent; the same way as it's been organized throughout the world. The
peasant struggle for land and rights is global.
READ MORE> [13]
MARABA: IN DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY AND THE SOCIAL CIVIL RIGHTS IN BRAZIL
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We are in solidarity with the people in struggle in Brazil and the
Brazilian people because we understand that this attack of the coup
hungry Right, is orchestrated as a great imperialist coup in other parts
of the world, especially in Latin America. We repudiate all attempts to
cause a political coup and defend the continuation of the mandate of
President Dilma Rouseff, acquired legally through democratic elections.
READ MORE> [14]
BRUSSELS: JUSTICE FOR BERTA – JOIN US TO STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH COPINH
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_Friends of the Earth Europe and Protection International Invitation:_
Two Honduran activists from COPINH - the indigenous group that was led
by murdered environmental and indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres -
came to Brussels on Wednesday 20 April to share their experiences of
resistance and repression and call for justice for Berta.
READ MORE> [15]
#17APRIL2016
Check out La Via Campesina's Facebook Page [16] and Twitter timeline
[17] for more photographs and videos.
To see all the peasant actions in an Image Slideshow click here [18].
To share them on Facebook, click here [19]
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"PEASANTS WERE THERE BEFORE, THEY EXIST TODAY AND WILL EXIST TOMORROW"
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Themba Chauke from _The Landless Peoples' Movement in South Africa_
reaffirms his solidarity to the peasant struggle on the occasion of the
International Day of the Peasant Struggle. He was in Maraba, Brazil to
also attend the International Conference of Agrarian Reforms. "Peasants
were there before, they exist today and will exist today, tomorrow and
forever. That was why as La Via Campesina, we express solidarity with
the peasants of Brazil and around the world", added Themba Chauke.
Watch it on Via Campesina TV [21]
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"NOT A MOMENT OF SILENCE, BUT A LIFE TIME OF STRUGGLE"
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Shalmali Guttal, from Focus on the Global South India speaks about the
increasing accounts of criminalisation of dissent and attack on peasants
that is occurring in many parts of the world, including India and
reasserts the importance of global peasant solidarity in the form of
International Day of Peasant's Struggle.
Speaking to us during the International Conference of Agrarian reform in
Maraba, Brazil, Shalmali also expressed her honour and pride in being
with the peasants from around the world, in their moments of resistance.
Watch it on Via Campesina TV [23]
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRARIAN REFORMS | INTERVIEWS TO REAL WORLD
RADIO
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Marta Di Piero, of the Associazione Italiana per l´Agricoltura Biologica
and the European Coordination of La Via Campesina and Pará, Temba Chauke
of the Landless Movement, Via Campesina South Africa, spoke to Real
World Radio during the International Conference on Agrarian Reforms in
Maraba, Brazil.
Watch it on Via Campesina TV [25]
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APRIL 17, 2016 | PEASANT STRUGGLE DAY IN BRUSSELS | BY ZIN TV
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Evey year, RESAP organizes events on April 17, as part of the
International Day of Peasant Struggle. This year while proclaiming "no
landless, no landless peasants" they drew attention to the problem of
the acquisition of agricultural land in Europe or forced eviction of
indigenous territories in other parts of the world.
Watch it on Via Campesina TV [27]
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7TH CONFERENCE | LA VIA CAMPESINA
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Here is the music video created for the VIIth conference of La Via
Campesina that will take place in July 2017 in the Basque country. The
words were written by the writer Joseba Sarrionaindia and the singers
are from the group "En tol Sarmieto" with the participation of Ines
Osinaga (Gose).
Watch it on Via Campesina TV [29]
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