Via-info-en February 2020

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#8March2020: Call for Solidarity action!
by La Via Campesina 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

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

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First Declaration: La Via Campesina International Solidarity Mission in Venezuela
by La Via Campesina 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

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-t… [2] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/international-solidari… [3] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/human-rights/

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