Hurricane Eta & Iota: La Via Campesina calls for urgent support and solidarity
by La Via Campesina
HURRICANE ETA & IOTA DEVASTATES CENTRAL AMERICA. LA VIA CAMPESINA CALLS
FOR URGENT SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY
24 NOVEMBER, HARARE:
Central America is extremely vulnerable to climate change, exposing it
to severe hurricanes and tropical storms. In just this month of
November, Hurricane Eta and then Iota, both touched ground in at the
northeast corner of Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast and brought torrential
rains, strong winds, landslides, and flooding in the entire region. The
damage has been so far incalculable: roads, schools, electricity,
internet, and potable water systems destroyed, and thousands of people
left homeless. Disappearances and deaths are still being counted. The
most severe damages that occurred are in rural indigenous and peasant
communities.
The peasants and workers in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Panama
were already suffering under the anti-poor policies of their neoliberal
governments. To make it worse, people were already reeling under a
crisis generated by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Now with Eta and
Iota, these governments have taken advantage to enrich the dominant
class instead of protecting human life.
As people seek refuge in shelters, under bridges, and on the streets in
these countries, with little access to water and proper sanitary
conditions, we worry that the cases of this terrible illness will
increase. Massive crop losses in beans, corn, vegetables, and animals
also mean a sharpening of the hunger crisis.
IT IS IN THIS CONTEXT THAT WE SAY, "ONLY THE PEOPLE CAN SAVE THE
PEOPLE!".
We reaffirm the urgency of peasant agroecology as the real solution to
the climate crisis. In addition to attending to the immediate emergency
of saving lives, we must also construct agroecological countrysides that
are resilient to the storms ahead and ensure that our communities have
access to healthy food.
La Via Campesina is calling upon all its members and allies to unite in
solidarity for the people and peasant movements of Central America, and
coordinate our efforts to recover farms, homes, and communities in the
region.
We call on governments to defend life and respond to the needs of the
people, and we support progressive forces that have organized
prevention, mitigation, and recovery plans.
We also make a call for concrete expressions of solidarity from
international organizations, UN agencies, and individual supporters of
our movement through the campaign organized by the Central American
region, "ONLY THE PEOPLE SAVE THE PEOPLE".
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La Via Campesina | e-Newsletter | Aug - Oct 2020
by La Via Campesina
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This edition of the newsletter is the result of a collective effort
of organisations that are part of_ La Via Campesina's_ global movement.
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The elected representatives of people must frame public policies in
their states to promote local production and distribution of a diverse
basket of food. It is essential that every government everywhere,
prioritises the autonomy of their citizens in designing their food
systems. Read the full statement [2] from La Via Campesina.
La Via Campesina backs the UN Special Rapporteur's observation [3]
that WTO policies have marginalised people's human rights concerns.
UN Human Rights Council, Geneva: Via Campesina and allies intervene
[4] at the #BindingTreaty negotiations virtually. Also read the campaign
statement [5] on the latest Treaty draft.
Young peasants call for a "Radical transformation of the food
system", urges the UN Committee on Food Security to support food
sovereignty [6]
Land, agroecology & peasant identity: The experiences of young people
[7] in Nicaragua.
It's time to transform. It's time to Globalise Solidarity, Localise
Agriculture [8]!
"Namdu" - a producers' cooperative run and managed by farmers [9] in
Karnataka, India.
Mali: Union alleges intimidation and arrests [10] of activists and
leaders.
La Via Campesina extends solidarity and support [11] to the people of
Thailand.
Nyeleni Newsletter #41: "Beyond Land - Territory and Food Sovereignty"
| #16October
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This issue of the Nyéléni Newsletter [12] looks at how land-related
struggles have evolved over the past decades, starting with demands for
agrarian reform to a more comprehensive framing, which asserts people's
and communities' close and multi-faceted relationships to their
territories.
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Peasant seeds are endangered. Yet tampering with our seeds is akin to
tampering with our food and our food sovereignty. It is also an attempt
to erase the social memory of living beings, as seeds contain the
history, collective vision, knowledge and practice of peasant
communities the world over.
This is why peasants everywhere are fighting for their preservation. Zin
TV caught up with some of these peasants at the 7th International
Conference of La Via Campesina in the Basque Country.
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