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Act Now to Support Gaza’s Farmers, Farmworkers and Fisherfolk! Help Gaza Feed Itself!
by La Via Campesina 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

ACT NOW TO SUPPORT GAZA'S FARMERS, FARMWORKERS AND FISHERFOLK! HELP GAZA FEED ITSELF! 22 JUNE 2021 INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY [1] The recent spate of bombings by Israeli forces in Gaza has killed over 260 people, including 60 children and 40 women and forcibly displaced more than 120,000 people from their homes. Missiles pounded the region for 11 consecutive days inflicting catastrophic damages to the lives and livelihood of the people of the area. Gaza's Ministry of Agriculture estimated around $27 million in damages, including greenhouses, agricultural lands and poultry farms. Union of Agricultural Workers Committee (UAWC), a member of La Via Campesina, informs that thousands of peasant workers, farmers and fisherfolk in Gaza have suffered crop losses and damages to farm and fishing infrastructure. Agricultural facilities such as animal farms, wells and irrigation networks have been severely damaged. A full closure of the sea and destruction of fishing boats have disrupted fishing activities and threaten the food security of over 3600 fisher families. A rapid assessment by UAWC in Gaza estimates crop loss in over 50 hectares. Missile attacks have impacted the soil heath and inflicted severe damages on irrigation and transmission networks. Hundreds of greenhouses have been destroyed. The assessment team also informs that scores of agricultural ponds are polluted or covered under rubble. Extensive damage to sewage stations, sewage networks, water wells pose a humungous challenge and leading to health risks due to unsanitary conditions. The United Nations said approximately 800,000 people in Gaza do not have regular access to clean piped water, as nearly 50 per cent of the water network was damaged in the bombing. HOW CAN YOU HELP? Gaza's food system is in ruins. Palestinians now seek to restore their water wells, greenhouses, animal barns and fishing boats, among other needs, and La Via Campesina wants to help by contributing USD $250,000 by August 31st, 2021. By contributing funds through THIS LINK [2], you can directly help the people of Gaza, particularly the family farms and fisherfolk, to rebuild and reclaim their dignity and livelihood. Every amount counts. As compassionate citizens of this planet, let us stand with the people of Gaza in their struggle to rebuild their lives and access justice. GLOBALIZE THE STRUGGLE, GLOBALIZE HOPE! LA VIA CAMPESINA Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/international-solidari… [2] https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/gaza-appeal-farmers-fishers-2021

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New edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!
by La Via Campesina 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

NYÉLÉNI NEWSLETTER: COMMUNICATING FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! Food sovereignty, among the multitude of ideas that it encompasses, is also about defending the billion diversities that exist on this planet, and is a celebration of our many unique practices, tastes, cultures and customs. An important pillar in this struggle for food sovereignty is the role played by popular rural cultures, of peasants, fisher-folk, family farmers and Indigenous Peoples. These communities are inheritors of a rich and diverse tradition of oral and visual forms of communication, whether in the form of folklore, legends, tales, proverbs, songs, murals and more. These varied forms of communication are also the recorded histories of human struggles and survival. However, this diversity is, today, under threat. Just as the agro-industrial complex pushes for a homogeneous, singular view of a global agrifood system, the international-corporate-media complex has also resulted in a singular, centralized form of mainstream communication. A handful of corporations today control much of what we read or watch and how people access information. Despite the challenges, organized peoples and communities around the world are countering this marginalization of peoples' culture. The current edition of the Nyéléni newsletter focuses on the wide variety of popular, community-driven communication approaches, drawing inspiration from local symbols, context and culture. It explores how these approaches are integral to pedagogy among peasants, family farmers, Indigenous Peoples and fisher-folk, crucial for political formation and popular education, and an essential element of our struggle for food sovereignty. _Click here to download the English edition_ [1] or read it directly on the website at www.nyeleni.org [2] ! Links: ------ [1] http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=158 [2] http://www.nyeleni.org

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Newsletter #4 | Colombia Peace Agreement Monitor
by La Via Campesina 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* This newsletter is the result of La Via Campesina's collective effort to make visible and accompany the implementation of the Peace Accords in Colombia. To subscribe click here [1] COLOMBIA: DESPITE STATE VIOLENCE, THE STRIKE CONTINUES Protests unleashed by President Duque's tributary reform have turned into a nationwide protest for historic injustices and the deepening economic crisis behind the pandemic. read the full press release [2] of La Vía Campesina. COLOMBIA: IS ACCESS TO LAND DEMOCRATIZED? Sub-point 1.1 of the Peace Agreement establishes mechanisms for access to land for the benefit of peasants without land or with insufficient land, mainly through land allocation processes and formalization of rights. READ MORE... [3] COLOMBIA: IMPACTS OF COVID-19 ON PEACE The crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic has had various impacts, amongst them, the increase in poverty numbers, the deepening of food insecurity, the deterioration of the security crisis and the limitations in the implementation of the Peace Agreement. READ MORE... [4] COLOMBIA: GLYPHOSATE AERIAL SPRAYING FORCES COMMUNITIES TO SEEK LEGAL ACTION The processes of voluntary eradication of illicit crops are supported, but marginally, compared to the force eradication operations prioritized by the government. READ MORE... [5] SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS DENOUNCE LIMITATIONS ON PARTICIPATION IN TERRITORIAL FOCUSED DEVELOPMENT PLANS (PDET) IN COLOMBIA Territorial Focused Development Plans - PDET, in Spanish, are designed by the Agreement as participatory territorial planning instrument to implement as a priority the components of Integral Rural Reform - RRI. READ MORE... [6] COLOMBIA: ARMED CONFLICT REACTIVATED IN 2021 During the year 2020 acts of violence with great intensity are recorded, there has been an increase in the assassination of social leaders, massacres, and confrontations among armed groups. READ MORE... [7] RURAL INTEGRAL REFORM IS EXCRUCIATINGLY SLOW IN COLOMBIA The assessments of the implementation of the Peace Agreement made by different institutions and social organizations highlight the lack of political will for the materialization of what has been agreed and the constant failings on the part of the government regarding principally the Rural Integral Reform - RRI, in Spanish. READ MORE... [8] COLOMBIA: CALL FOR LIFE, DEMOCRACY AND PEACE! La Via Campesina stands in solidarity with the struggles and protests of the Colombian people in the NATIONAL STRIKE that began on April 28th and remains active even now. READ MORE... [9] COLOMBIA: END THE STATE-SANCTIONED VIOLENCE, INVESTIGATE THE CRIMES OF THE COLOMBIAN STATE! A month into the National Strike against the neoliberal reforms that seek to undermine rights, promote privatization and labor flexibilization. READ MORE... [10] SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORKING CLASS OF COLOMBIA We, the undersigned popular organisations of the peoples of the countryside, of the waters and of the forests, and other organisations of the whole world, lend our solidarity to the peasant, indigenous and Afro-descendant people who, allied to the working class of the cities, are demonstrating in Colombia to defend human rights as basic as the right to live in peace and dignity. READ MORE... [11] [12] Omar Moreno, life and peasant struggle [13] HYMN OF THE INDIGENOUS GUARD YOU ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE AUTONOMY OF OUR MOVEMENT ------------------------- As a supporter who has contributed financial resources to La Via Campesina, and as an activist who joins us on the streets and in the fields, your support is always welcome and put to good use. YOU CAN RENEW YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO LA VIA CAMPESINA BY CLICKING HERE [14]. [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] To unsubscribe from the distribution list click here [1] For questions or comments, email LVCWEB(a)VIACAMPESINA.ORG WEBSITE: www.viacampesina.org TV: www.tv.viacampesina.org To subscribe to this newsletter - Click Here [1] Links: ------ [1] https://mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-en [2] https://viacampesina.org/en/colombia-despite-state-violence-the-strike-cont… [3] https://viacampesina.org/en/colombia-is-access-to-land-democratized/ [4] https://viacampesina.org/en/colombia-impacts-of-covid-19-on-peace/ [5] https://viacampesina.org/en/colombia-glyphosate-aerial-spraying-forces-comm… [6] https://viacampesina.org/en/socia-l-organizations-denounce-limitations-on-p… [7] https://viacampesina.org/en/colombia-armed-conflict-reactivated-2021/ [8] https://viacampesina.org/en/rural-integral-reform-is-excruciatingly-slow-in… [9] https://viacampesina.org/en/colombia-call-for-life-democracy-and-peace/ [10] https://viacampesina.org/en/colombia-end-the-state-sanctioned-violence-inve… [11] https://viacampesina.org/en/solidarity-with-the-working-class-of-colombia/ [12] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhOgyaHgiJc [13] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwR6VgQ1mOE [14] https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/viacampesina [15] https://viacampesina.org/en/donations/ [16] https://www.facebook.com/viacampesinaOFFICIAL [17] http://www.twitter.com/via_campesina [18] https://www.instagram.com/la_via_campesina_official/ [19] https://viacampesina.org/

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05 June, World Environment Day: Call for Mobilization | La Via Campesina
by La Via Campesina 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

05 JUNE, WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY: CALL FOR MOBILIZATION | LA VIA CAMPESINA 2 JUNE 2021 CAMPAIGN AGAINST AGROTOXICS [1], CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE [2], LAND, WATER AND TERRITORIES [3], TRANSNATIONAL COMPANIES AND AGRIBUSINESS [4] _THIS WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, LA VIA CAMPESINA CALLS FOR ACTIONS TO PROTECT MOTHER EARTH AND DEMAND THE URGENT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN DECLARATION FOR THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS AND OTHER PEOPLE WORKING IN RURAL AREAS._ LIFE OVER PROFITS – THIS PLANET IS OUR ONLY HOME! (Harare: June 2, 2021) By now it is evident that the capitalist system causes predatory actions against the environment, leading to severe damage to our planet. The extractive industrial model, together with increased militarization to keep imperialist hegemony, destroys our lands and rivers, forests and seas, reduces biodiversity, pillages our territories and criminalizes our struggles. The effects of this model are becoming more and more serious: violent storms, cyclones, droughts, heat waves, floods, migrations, over-consumption and food waste, as well as toxic foods that cause illness and kill across the world. Moreover, high-cost diseases (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome [SARS] such the current COVID-19 pandemic with over 3.3 million deathsso far) seem to be linked to contaminated food and livestock, and particularly affecting people with underlying health conditions such as malnutrition, obesity, and diabetes. We can affirm that industrial farming methods have led to untold environmental and social destruction globally as they oversimplify complex systems. This has nothing to do with feeding people, since the number of people affected by hunger and malnutrition continues to raise, but it's about accumulation of power and control by a few. Worldwide, we the peasant and indigenous communities of every nation feed 70% of the world's population while having access only to 25% of agricultural resources. Women and migrants represent more than 60% of laborers in agricultural production, yet they continue to suffer exploitation, racism, violence and a systematic violation of their human rights. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We, peasants, indigenous peoples, women, migrants and rural communities want food sovereignty based peasant agroecology to reduce emissions and achieve social justice. The fight for food sovereignty is a social, political and ecological vision that brings together multiple groups within a single movement to challenge capital, build relationships with nature and defend systems of shared control over and access to the requirements of life. NO TO FALSE SOLUTIONS! We denounce and reject all the false solutions being put on the table to face the environmental and climate crisis by our governments working closely with transnational corporations (TNCs). Climate Smart agriculture, soil sequestration programs, Nature based solutions, payments for environmental services (PES), etc., allow capitalism to keep polluting to the detriment of the environment and our rights. These false solutions increase the risk of land grabbing the control of seed diversity by transnational corporations and the use of agrotoxics and expanded genetic manipulation. All this has led, among other things, to the emergence of superweeds and superbugs, putting the survival of life as we know it on a cliff's edge. TIME TO TRANSFORM! NO FUTURE WITHOUT FOOD SOVEREIGNTY! As La Via Campesina, we believe that action must be taken without delay for a complete turnaround, transforming our societies, changing the capitalist system that exploits, pollutes and uses up our commons, which are the heritage of peoples throughout the world. This urgent and much needed change must be implemented through a real social transformation that will only be possible if the rights of peasants, indigenous peoples, women, migrants and all those working in rural areas are fully respected. This means ending all forms of violence against all people and having access and democratically controlling land, water, territories and other common resources WE, THEREFORE, CALL OUR MEMBERS, ACTIVISTS AND ALLY MOVEMENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS, ON JUNE 5TH THE WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, TO SUPPORT OUR ACTIONS TO PROTECT MOTHER EARTH AND OUR EFFORTS TO ENSURE THE FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS AND OTHER PEOPLE WORKING IN RURAL AREAS (UNDROP) BY NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS. WE MUST ALSO URGENTLY UNITE AGAINST THE FORTHCOMING CORPORATE LED UN FOOD SYSTEM SUMMIT AS IT PROMOTES FALSE SOLUTIONS WHICH WILL NOT ONLY WORSEN THE CURRENT CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS BUT WILL ALSO CONSTITUTE A SERIOUS ATTACK TO OUR RIGHTS AS PEASANTS, INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, WOMEN, MIGRANTS AND RURAL COMMUNITIES. LET'S ORGANIZE SOLIDARITY ACTIONS ON JUNE 5TH AT 12.00 MIDDAY #INDEFENSEOFTHEPLANET, INCLUDING PLANTING TREES. HASHTAG #InDefenseOfThePlanet #NoFuturewithoutFoodSovereignty DOWNLOAD AND READ THE INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE MANIFESTO IN DEFENSE OF THE PLANET IN ENGLISH [5], SPANISH [6], PORTUGUESE [7] GLOBALISE THE STRUGGLE, GLOBALISE HOPE Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-against/transnational-comp… [2] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/climate-change-and-agr… [3] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/agrarian-reform/ [4] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-against/transnational-comp… [5] https://viacampesina.org/en/en-5-june-manifesto-the-planet-before-profits-o… [6] https://viacampesina.org/en/es-manifiesto-5-de-junio-el-planeta-por-encima-… [7] https://viacampesina.org/en/pt-manifesto-5-de-junho-o-planeta-acima-do-lucr…

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