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Call for a global movement for peace, social justice and solidarity against all wars! | La Via Campesina
by La Via Campesina 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Call for a global movement for peace, social justice and solidarity against all wars! *Bagnolet | 08 July 2022* At a time of a global climate emergency and crisis, escalation of totalitarian regimes, the resurgence of imperialism and military aggression, we, peasants, express our dismay with the proliferation of wars in the world. Fires are ravaging the Amazon and Australia, and unbearable heat, untimely rains and floods are hitting the South-Asian subcontinent. Droughts threaten crops and livestock in dozens of countries; floods are destroying fields and houses in other places, and insect, bird and plant species and populations are disappearing massively and irrecoverably. And you, the decision-makers of this world, what are you doing? You wage war fueled by greed to snatch the last drops of oil, the last sources of water, the last acres of territory. You turn people against each other with populist and chauvinist propaganda, trying to divide us and break our practice of sowing peace in our societies and with nature. *Enough of this! We, peasants, call for an end to wars and a global movement for peace and international solidarity and cooperation.* We call for the immediate stop of military aggression and a withdrawal of military forces from all illegally occupied territories worldwide. We call for the dismantling of all multinational military alliances and nuclear arsenals around the world. We call for an international effort towards demilitarization and disarmament. We call to stop using hunger as a weapon of war against the people. We call to stop the de-legitimization and criminalization of social movements who struggle for social justice. *The only wars worth fighting today are those against poverty, hunger, the climate and biodiversity crises, racism and violence against women.* We, peasants, affirm that, in the current social and environmental emergency context, all wars are contrary to the true interests and aspirations of the people. We want to sow peace and social justice! We are tired of your thirst for power that destroys the planet and condemns us to misery. We want to harvest peace and social justice! It is time to put all our energies into the construction of more just and more united societies. We want to build peace and social justice! We call on all people who feel a sense of pacifist urgency, as well as social movements, women’s organizations, workers’ organizations, migrant organizations, youth organizations, and indigenous peoples’ organizations, to unite in demanding an end to wars and militarization. *La Via Campesina appeals to all its members, allies, and social movements to echo this text, translate and re-publish it in local languages, and share ahead. A united voice of the people is now urgent and necessary! Globalize the Struggle, Globalize Hope*! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Share our reel promoting our statement <https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/reel-EN-PAZ-…> If you have any questions, please write to press(a)viacampesina.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **

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La Via Campesina: “Artists for Food Sovereignty” Virtual Gallery
by La Via Campesina 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

LA VIA CAMPESINA: “ARTISTS FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY” VIRTUAL GALLERY 13 JULY 2022 FOOD SOVEREIGNTY [1], INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY [2] La Via Campesina (LVC) is celebrating 30 years of collective struggles for justice, peace, life, and dignity. On this anniversary, we are presenting a virtual gallery titled “ARTISTS FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY.” It is an exhibition capturing the activism, solidarity, and commitment of 22 artists from different countries and organizations around the world, whose works have been selected and curated following the _international call for submissions [3]_ put out by the movement in August and September 2021. The many ongoing activities and mobilizations for food sovereignty, peoples' agrarian reform, and peasant dignity serve as sources of inspiration and reflection for the artistic and activist creations presented in this gallery in formats such as songs, poems, video, paintings, puppetry, podcasts, and illustrations. For LVC, communication and art are important tools for expression, training, memory, exchange, and resistance among the peasant and Indigenous cultures of the world. In this gallery, we present our struggles and reflections on food sovereignty, peoples' agrarian reform, peasant agroecology, native seeds, women, and diverse peoples, along with the works provided by the artists. These are accompanied by teachers' guides that can help you build awareness and organize to transform our lives. We hope the exhibition will motivate you to build new horizons and other paths based on solidarity, internationalism, education, and popular culture. Globalize the struggle, globalize hope! Get out some paper, pen, colored pencils, and a headset microphone if you have one. _YOU CAN VISIT THIS GALLERY IN A GROUP OR BY YOURSELF. YOU CAN ALSO BECOME AN “EXHIBITION GUIDE” BY SHARING IT WITH YOUR COMMUNITY, ORGANIZATION, OR REGION. THE WORKS EXHIBITED ARE OPEN-SOURCE AND CAN BE DOWNLOADED TO YOUR PHONE OR PC.©_ EN: https://bit.ly/3z3yKZf ES: https://bit.ly/3uLNcCG FR: https://bit.ly/3Pqeqqh 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/es/llamado-internacional-artistas-por-la-soberania…

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LVC Statement | From Melilla to San Antonio, migrants’ lives matter!
by La Via Campesina 01 Jul '22

01 Jul '22

FROM MELILLA TO SAN ANTONIO, MIGRANTS' LIVES MATTER! DECLARATION OF LA VIA CAMPESINA, FOR THE LIVES OF MIGRANTS AND THEIR FAMILIES ------------------------- BAGNOLET, 30 JUNE: Once again, the borders are filled with the bodies of human beings desperately seeking to escape misery, dispossession, institutional repression, and the violence of the criminal gangs that traffic with their lives, protected by the official impunity and with the connivance of the states of the North. JUST ON FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 37 MIGRANTS LOST THEIR LIVES AT THE MELILLA BORDER WITH SPAIN AT THE HANDS OF BORDER AGENTS AND THREE DAYS LATER, ON MONDAY, JUNE 27, 53 MIGRANTS WERE FOUND DEAD LOCKED IN A CARGO TRUCK IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. These most recent deaths, of dispossessed people who can no longer live on their land and desperately seek their survival, are added to the long list of thousands of deaths at the borders since the states of the North decided to confront migration with a military and repressive strategy and which has deepened since the approval of the so-called Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in December 2018 and from which the principle of human rights was bypassed. The images of what happened in Melilla showed the world the cruelty with which the Moroccan and Spanish border forces repressed the impotent sub-Saharans. In San Antonio, Texas, the dead were 39 men and 12 women, mainly Mexicans, as well as Guatemalans, Hondurans and other nationalities... and children. In the face of these painful tragedies, La Via Campesina International cannot remain silent. We join in the worldwide indignation. We join the public denunciations of human rights organizations, such as the Moroccan Association of Human Rights. We join the demand of the UN Commissioner for Human Rights for an investigation into the violation of human rights by the States under the International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers. We also join our voices in calling for an end to the complicity of governments such as Morocco and Mexico, and others, who do the "dirty work" of implementing policies and actions against migrants imposed by the North such as the United States and the European Union. We urgently call on our organizations of La Via Campesina and our allies to mobilize to carry out concrete actions for the protection and in defense of the lives of migrants. Finally, we call on society as a whole to come out of global indifference and to demand, through action, the protection of migrants' lives. THE LIVES OF MIGRANTS MATTER! NO MORE DEATHS AT THE BORDER! LET'S BUILD AN URGENT GLOBAL UNITY OF ACTION AND SOLIDARITY FOR THE PROTECTION OF MIGRANTS EVERYWHERE!

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