#8March2020: Call for Solidarity action!
by La Via Campesina
HARARE: This 08th March, the International Day of Women, La Via
Campesina joins in solidarity and struggle with millions of peasants,
workers, migrants, indigenous people, fishers, pastoralists, waged
agricultural workers, housekeepers and people of all diversity among the
rural and the urban working class, as well as other organized sectors,
to denounce the capitalist and patriarchal system and its constant
oppression of women and of our peoples.
We condemn this perverse system that hides behind the malicious facade
of conservative and authoritarian neoliberalism, exacerbating workers'
precariousness, eroding our rights, eliminating public policy, and
criminalizing and killing those who resist.
Massive women's mobilizations on a global scale, such as the World Women
Strike, #8M, Vivas nos queremos, as well as other actions and
expressions of struggle confirm the urgency behind the demand to stop
all forms of violence and oppression that women suffer throughout the
world.
AS LA VIA CAMPESINA, we raise our fist together with our landless
sisters in their 1st National Women's Meeting to be held on March 5th to
8th in Brazil. We also salute our Zapatista comrades, with whom we
shared the 2nd Meeting of Women in the Struggle in December 2019 and the
comrades of Women's March Global who are organizing their 5th Action "We
resist to live, we march to transform!"
We stand with the Kurdish and Palestine women; with the women in the
struggle in Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Spain, Turkey, Bolivia; with the
women who survive under situations of structural violence, conservatism
and authoritarianism, war, occupation, dispossession, extractivist
policies and racist, xenophobic and homophobic narratives that threaten
the lives of women of all ages.
We also condemn "patriarchal States" that strengthen and naturalize
violence against women. Instead of ensuring rights, in both rural and
urban areas, they deny justice and reparations, fostering widespread
impunity of the perpetrators. It is distressing to hear presidential
declarations such as those of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil or Lenin Moreno
in Ecuador trivializing rape and harassment; denying facts, such as the
elevated rates of underage pregnancies from rape and feminicides when
the numbers worldwide are alarming and alert to a pandemic. At the same
time, they promote policies in favour of transnational companies
creating more inequality, poverty and increasing the concentration of
wealth in few hands.
As peasant women, this 08th March, we also stand in rejection of the
industrial farming model and its system of death that everyday poisons
our land, and pose serious health risks to the women who work in the
fields and to the people who consume such food.
WE DEMAND the enforcement of the UN Declaration on the Rights of
Peasants, which guarantees the right to land, to fair prices, to a
production free of toxic agrochemicals and which acknowledges the
essential role of peasants in the production of healthy food and as
guardians of the common goods by promoting agroecology as the path
towards Food Sovereignty and cooling down the planet.
On this day, we also reaffirm our commitment to promote Popular Peasant
Feminism. It is the path we have taken as a movement, born of the heat
of the struggles for the defense of common goods, against imperialism,
colonialism and patriarchy as the pillars that uphold a capitalist
system of death and destruction, through mining mega-projects and
agribusiness, responsible of the violence and dispossession suffered by
the women and peoples of the world.
_PEASANT AND RURAL WOMEN AWAKE AND ORGANIZED FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND A
DIGNIFIED LIFE! AGAINST VIOLENCE AND AGRIBUSINESS!_
-------------------------
MOBILIZE!
During the week of 08th March, as La Via Campesina we are organizing
decentralized actions in different countries and continents. Let's all
speak out together for fairer societies and call for an end to all forms
of violence and oppression against women! We are awake and in struggle,
both in the countryside and in cities. It is imperative to give
visibility to this struggle and raise awareness worldwide.
Send your posters, photos, videos, event plans and press releases to
LVCWEB(a)VIACAMPESINA.ORG.
Click here to download [1] poster, comic and other social media content.
Links:
------
[1] https://cloud.viacampesina.org/s/XQLfk9RSzirDAKt
4 years, 10 months
- 1
- 0
First Declaration: La Via Campesina International Solidarity Mission in Venezuela
by La Via Campesina
FIRST DECLARATION: LA VIA CAMPESINA INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MISSION IN
VENEZUELA
6 FEBRUARY 2020 FOOD SOVEREIGNTY [1], INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY [2],
PEASANTS' RIGHTS [3]
Caracas, January 31st, 2020
The delegation of La Via Campesina with representatives from Europe,
North America, South America and Central America, together with popular
journalists from Africa and South America, announce to the national and
international public that we have concluded the 1st International
Solidarity Mission with Venezuela, held between January 20th and 27th in
several regions of the country, among them the states of Lara,
Portuguesa, Barinas and Apure.
La Via Campesina is a movement that brings together peasant
organizations of all five continents, active in the struggles for food
sovereignty and defending the rights of the peoples in the face of
unbridled capitalism and imperialism, predators of life on the planet.
In this sense, the goal of the Solidarity Mission in Venezuela was to
get to know in-depth, together with organized collectives, the
consequences and impacts caused by the United States and European
blockade against the Venezuelan people.
The Mission, a milestone for La Via Campesina, has allowed us to see the
high level of organization in the territories of the National Peasant
Front Ezequiel Zamora (FNCEZ, by its acronym in Spanish), part of the
Revolutionary Movement Bolivar y Zamora (CRBZ) and member of La Via
Campesina. These organizations enabled meetings with different men and
women responsible for driving and upholding the process of the
Bolivarian Revolution in Defense of National Sovereignty.
The Mission also had the opportunity to delve into a thorough
exploration of the organizations of the people's Bolivarian resistance.
This was possible thanks to exchanges with men and women comrades of the
commune "El Maizal" (in the states of Lara and Portuguesa), with the
Cooperative Association "Los Colonos" and the University Latin American
Institute of Agroecology (IALA) "Paulo Freire", the socialist
agro-touristic commune "Pie de Monte Andino", the Peasant Settlement
"Victor Ojeda" (of the state of Barinas) and the Communal Peasant City
"Simon Bolivar" (in the state of Apure). The above-mentioned experiences
are part of the National Production Alliance (ANP), an FNCEZ-CRBZ
initiative to promote food productivity and sovereignty in the
communities.
In each of the experiences visited we were able to verify the high level
of awareness of the Venezuelan people, their sense of dignity,
sovereignty and autonomy. These characteristics were also present in the
National Bolivarian Militia, which is marked by a strong peasant
component and integrates millions of people.
We also witnessed the organizational dynamics and the productive work
peasants have managed to develop. This work is one of the actions of
resistance to the economic blockade that has an impact on the areas of
food and overall human development. The rescue and further development
of Peasant Agriculture in a path towards Agroecology and Food
Sovereignty gain a special relevance given the current context.
In addition, we value and salute the appreciation of local organizations
awarded to the "IALA Paulo Freire" due to its contribution in knowledge
exchange and dialogue related to peasant agriculture aimed at recovering
the wisdom of the peoples about ways production free of toxic
agro-chemicals. This institute of political agroecological and
internationalist education is the main reference in Latin America. It
was founded thanks to the sensibility of the Venezuelan Bolivarian
Government in the early 2000s. The current focus is on finding a way to
face the crisis and succeed in supplying peasant families and people's
markets, as well as ensuring the necessary food for education facilities
through the connection with the national government.
La Via Campesina reaffirms its solidarity with the FNCEZ of the CRBZ and
the Venezuelan peasantry as a whole. We are certain that this period of
crisis, largely due to the #US blockade, will come to an end and that
Venezuela will be able to make its own decisions regarding its economic
and human development in full sovereignty and with utmost dignity.
_Globalize the struggle, globalize hope!_
Links:
------
[1]
https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/food-sovereignty-and...
[2]
https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/international-solida...
[3] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/human-rights/
4 years, 11 months
- 1
- 0
- ← Newer
- 1
- Older →