Watch > Globalize Hope (1h 13 mins): New film on the history of La Via Campesina
by La Via Campesina
JANUARY 2020 | LA VIA CAMPESINA
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SYNOPSIS
LA VIA CAMPESINA is an international movement that brings together
millions of peasants, landless workers, indigenous peoples and migrants
- comprising women, men, youth and diverse identities - from all over
the world. The movement brings them together under its banner of
comprehensive and popular agrarian reform and food sovereignty. It is a
collective expression of the struggle for recognition, legitimacy and
dignity of peasant communities and rural people, in a neo- liberal world
that is destroying them.
In recent years, globalization and the expansion of agribusiness and
monocultural practices have destroyed tens of millions of small farms
across the continents. Peasants and small scale food producers now have
access to only 25% of the world's agricultural land. Despite these odds,
peasant and rural communities continue to be the world's major food
producers, providing for an estimated 80% of the food needs in
non-industrialized countries.
Meanwhile, many governments are increasingly allowing the World Trade
Organization (WTO ) and other free trade agreements (FTAs) to govern
their national agricultural and food policies. As a result, peasant
agriculture finds itself in competition with low-priced imported
foodstuffs. The survival of the peasants, who represent almost half of
the world's population, is therefore threatened. The consequences for
healthy food systems and for humanity itself are dire.
Peasant agriculture carries within itself the solutions that humanity
needs to face the challenges of the future. Therefore its defense and
the defense of the rights of peasants is essential.
This film chronicles how La Via Campesina was born more than 28 years
ago, as an alternative that brings together struggles, dreams and
challenges to build solidarity and secure our collective human future.
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La Via Campesina in Venezuela: a mission for the brotherhood, solidarity and truth of the people
by La Via Campesina
LA VIA CAMPESINA IN VENEZUELA: A MISSION FOR THE BROTHERHOOD, SOLIDARITY
AND TRUTH OF THE PEOPLE
20 JANUARY 2020 FOOD SOVEREIGNTY [1], INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY [2]
(Harare, January 17, 2020) Overthrowing the Bolivarian Revolution is one
of the US government's plans to regain its control, dominance and
oppression of Latin America.
Today, Venezuela is the target of a hybrid and multidimensional
(economic, financial, diplomatic, media and military) aggression, which
is seriously impacting the life of the country and its people. This
offensive has benefitted from the support of governments serving the
interests of the United States and of stateless and elitist internal
political forces. This is the context in which La Via Campesina's First
International Mission of Solidarity with Venezuela will take place from
January 20 to 27, 2020. This mission seeks to show the effects of the
blockade and shed light on the numerous popular organization resistance
experiences. The Mission is organized together with the Bolívar and
Zamora Revolutionary Current and the Ezequiel Zamora National Peasant
Front, a local member of the movement.
In recent years, in the midst of extreme difficulties, the Venezuelan
people have resisted and stood strong, fighting against adversity,
building organizational, solidarity and productive alternatives and
striving to strengthen Food Sovereignty in their territories. Zuleima
Vergel of the Political Coordination of the FNCEZ stressed that "the
institutional firmness of the Bolivarian Government and the Venezuelan
State in defending democracy and sovereignty, the unity of the patriotic
political forces, the civil and military unity, as well as the high
consciousness and political clarity of the Venezuelan people, have all
been key factors to defeat the US-led plans and conspiracies against
Venezuela".
In Venezuela's extended battle for sovereignty, democracy and peace,
decisive and effective international solidarity have played a prominent
role. La Via Campesina has been instrumental in denouncing US
interference and blockade. In addition, most of the planet has rejected
systematic blockade and aggression against Venezuela. International and
multilateral organizations, numerous governments throughout the world as
well as social organizations have demonstrated their solidarity. These
are all organized expressions of people who are fighting for their
rights and the construction of a world freed from hegemony and
imperialism, a world of justice, respect and equality.
In this sense, the La Via Campesina Mission aims at getting to better
understand Venezuela's reality, the impact of the economic and financial
blockade imposed by the United States and its effects on peoples' lives.
The Mission will also allow us to get a closer look at the other side of
this reality: solidarity, the capacity of resistance and the
alternatives that popular movements and organizations have been able to
build as a response to the aggression and the crisis.
The La Via Campesina delegation participating in this Venezuela
solidarity mission is made up of representatives of the National
Association of Rural and Indigenous Women, ANAMURI [3] of Chile, the
Association of Rural Workers, ATC [4] of Nicaragua, The Farmworker
Association of Florida (FWAF) from the USA and the Coordination of
Farmer and Rancher Organizations (COAG- [5]ECVC [6]) from Spain. Their
tour will allow them to learn about the different productive, community
and popular solidarity experiences in the states of Lara, Barinas and
Apure, as well as meet and exchange with Venezuelan social and political
organizations. The delegation will also include a Communications
Collective made up of independent journalists and alternative media such
as Alba TV [7] and Radio Mundo Real [8].
The First International La Via Campesina Mission of Solidarity of with
Venezuela also aims to be a strong example of how the people can
contribute in a concrete way to the necessary construction of a
multi-centred and multipolar world. It is an example of how people are
able to break Imperialism's media and political siege.
Likewise, with this action, La Via Campesina maintains that close,
fraternal and solidarity events such as this Mission are the way to
strengthen the unity of the peoples of the world in building a world of
freedom, justice and equality. "Thus, by building bridges, creating ties
and opening paths, we will make the truth of the peoples prevail over
the lies and manipulations of the planet's economic and political elites
in their eagerness to keep us subjugated and subdued," concluded Nury
Martínez of the Political Commission of the Cloc--Via Campesina South
America.
PRESS CONTACTS:
Eduardo Viloria--Local Communication Team (SP)
Viviana Rojas--LVC Communication Team (SP, EN, PT)
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