La Via Campesina 2019 Annual Report - Now Available
by La Via Campesina
LA VIA CAMPESINA: 2019 ANNUAL REPORT
SUMMARY: This annual report [1]highlights the struggles and activities
we had and the progress we made in 2019. These happened in the context
of a world faced with many complex and interconnected challenges that
heightened political crises and triggered mass mobilizations and
protests broke out in all corners of the earth. What is clear and common
among the protests is that economic inequality, poverty, and climate
crisis can no longer be tolerated. In the context of contradictory
realities of hope and desperation, the people, both rural and urban, are
fed up and disillusioned with the current neoliberal political-economic
order. Only a radical societal transformation upheld by food sovereignty
can repair the current polarization and bring peasants, workers, and the
majority of the poor into the center stage of the political and economic
questions facing the world today. We need to build greater unity and
solidarity to struggle against exploitation and criminalization in all
its forms. One way to do this is to strengthen the existing solidarity
mechanism by developing an emergency response system and giving legal
support to those imprisoned for defending our rights. UN Declaration on
the Rights of the Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas is
one of the legal instruments we will use to strengthen local and
national struggles for agrarian reform, agroecology, popular peasant
feminism, and food sovereignty.
Download PDF Report [1]
Publication date: May 2020
Available in Spanish [2] and French [3]
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[2] https://viacampesina.org/es/la-via-campesina-informe-anual-2019/
[3] https://viacampesina.org/fr/la-via-campesina-rapport-annuel-2019/
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#17April2020: Highlights of actions worldwide
by La Via Campesina
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HIGHLIGHTS
During the month of April 2020, La Via Campesina and allies carried out
creative mobilisations, and amplified the voices of rural communities
and small-scale food producers.
The solidarity actions reminded the world that peasants and rural
workers continued to work in the farms and feed the world, even in times
of the pandemic.
In a press release, the global peasant movement called upon the people
to till, sow and harvest transformative ideas for the future! Read [1]
the demands put forth by the movement in this regard >>> [1]
COVID-19: La Via Campesina highlight the vulnerability of peasants and
workers.
Read More [2]
Negligence, injustice, and insensitivity - Peasant situation under
coronavirus crisis.
Read More [3]
Statement to the Extraordinary Meeting of G20 Agriculture Ministers
Read More [4]
For Via Campesina, the Crisis Calls on Our Humanity - #NoToBlockade
Read More [5]
In an Op-Ed written for Al Jazeera, Via Campesina leaders insist that
the solution to food insecurity is food sovereignty. The elaborate that
the pandemic has made it clear why we need to stop depending on
corporations and big agribusiness for our food. Read the opinion piece
here [6]>>> [6]
"Urgent support needed for rural poor, migrants, and urban workers",
say La Via Campesina South Asia
Read More [7]
ECVC demands urgent measures for rural workers in the face of
escalating COVID-19 difficulties
Read More [8]
In times of pandemic, Indonesian peasants upholds food sovereignty and
solidarity
Read More [9]
Responding to COVID-19 in Palestine: A report about UAWC's emergency
response
Read More [10]
CLOC- Via Campesina: Returning to the Countryside
Read More [11]
"Stand with every food system worker" LVC North America
Read More [12]
Several members of La Via Campesina carried out solidarity actions
during the month of April and it is challenging to capture all of that
in a single newsletter. Many of these actions are recorded on the
websites, facebook pages and Twitter pages of our members. You can also
visit the official Facebook page of Via Campesina [13] or the movements
Twitter handle [14] to catch a glimpse of the several actions that took
place in countries around the world. On the official website of La Via
Campesina, the news related to 17 April mobilisations are archived here
[15].
In April of 1996, 21 farm workers were murdered; those who survived
turned their pain into struggle. Brasil De Fato recounts the massacre at
Eldorado do Carajás 24 years ago: "A day not to be forgotten". READ HERE
[16]
On International Day of Peasants' Struggle La Via Campesina released an
ILLUSTRATED VERSION OF THE UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS AND
OTHER PEOPLE WORKING IN RURAL AREAS (UNDROP).
Through compelling visuals that were carefully crafted by Sophie Holin,
this book aims to popularise the contents of the UN Declaration and
spread awareness about it among rural communities. The book, originally
produced in English, Spanish and French, will also be available as an
open-source document for social movements to adapt and translate into
local languages.
ENGLISH WEB VERSION HERE [17]
PRINT-READY FILES HERE [18]
[19]
In this video we explain how COVID-19 is impacting peasants and food
producers around the world.
The video is also available in several languages on our vimeo channel
[20].
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Several more videos are available on our official Facebook Page. [21]
Find Out More [15]
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For questions or comments, email LVCWEB(a)VIACAMPESINA.ORG
WEBSITE: www.viacampesina.org [27]
TV: www.tv.viacampesina.org [28]
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https://viacampesina.org/en/covid-19-several-members-of-la-via-campesina-...
[3]
https://viacampesina.org/en/negligence-injustice-and-insensitivity-peasan...
[4]
https://viacampesina.org/en/statement-to-the-extraordinary-meeting-of-g20...
[5]
https://viacampesina.org/en/for-via-campesina-the-crisis-calls-on-our-hum...
[6]
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/solution-food-insecurity-food-s...
[7]
https://southasiaviacampesina.org/2020/04/05/covid-19-urgent-support-need...
[8]
https://www.eurovia.org/ecvc-demands-urgent-measures-for-rural-workers-in...
[9]
https://viacampesina.org/en/in-times-of-pandemic-indonesian-peasants-upho...
[10]
https://viacampesina.org/en/responding-to-covid-19-in-palestine-a-report-...
[11]
https://viacampesina.org/en/cloc-via-campesina-returning-to-the-countryside/
[12]
https://viacampesina.org/en/this-may-day-stand-with-every-food-system-wor...
[13] https://www.facebook.com/viacampesinaOFFICIAL/
[14] https://twitter.com/via_campesina
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[17] https://viacampesina.org/undrop-book-of-illustrations-l-en-l-web/
[18] https://cloud.viacampesina.org/s/64iGyRj9QcMWFGc
[19] https://vimeo.com/405111857
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[21] https://www.facebook.com/pg/viacampesinaOFFICIAL/videos/
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