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Peasant Struggles | July 2023
by La Via Campesina 28 Jul '23

28 Jul '23

Top articles of the month from www.viacampesina.org EDITION: JULY 2023 SUBSCRIBE [1] La Via Campesina's 'PEASANT STRUGGLES' brings to you a monthly synthesis of articles and videos from our website and multimedia library. Read, share and help us globalize the struggle! EU migration policy causes deaths instead of saving lives " La Via Campesina in Nador, Morocco ------------------------- La Via Campesina has launched a powerful message of denunciation of the murder of thousands of people in the Mediterranean.During the V Maghreb Social Forum on Migration (Nador, June 20-23), it warned of the serious violation of human rights promoted by the European Union through its migration policy, which follows the guidelines of the Global Compact for Safe and Orderly Migration, signed by several states five years ago in Marrakech. READ MORE [2] Tunisia and the EU must uphold the rights and dignity of migrants [3] Haiti: 36 years after the massacre, the peasant struggle continues [4] Japan's Food Sovereignty is under threat. The Japanese Family Farmers' Movement (Nouminren) calls for a structural rethink [5] Nepal: Agriculture Minister hints at a law to guarantee Food Sovereignty during Peasant Youth meeting [6] India: Peasants in Karnataka are protesting forceful acquisition of 1773 acres of fertile land [7] UN Food Systems Summit: Social Movements call for True Food Systems Change [8] Mega Water Basins: NFU expresses solidarity with Confédération Paysanne, writes to the French Ambassador [9] Data for Food Security and Nutrition: CSIPM Vision Statement [10] European Commission proposal on new GMOs favours biopiracy over rights of farmers and citizens [11] Peasant agriculture, a key element in the fight against the climate crisis [12] Defending peasants' rights to seeds and genetic resources, against the biopiracy [13] UNDROP: Peasants' Rights in practice (Videos) [14] FOR MORE ARTICLES FROM JULY 2023 CLICK HERE [15] FEATURED VIDEOS OF THE MONTH [16] La Via Campesina delivers a fiery speech inside the European Parliament, calls out Free Trade Agreements, Colonialism and Unilateral Sanctions [17] La Via Campesina launched a strong message denouncing the murder of thousands of people in the Mediterranean Sea. 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Hugo Blanco: A man who loved humanity and Mother Earth
by La Via Campesina 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Hugo Blanco: A man who loved humanity and Mother Earth Latin America sows a great soul, who defended the rights of the peasantry, indigenous peoples and Mother Earth, founded the National Agrarian Confederation (CNA) and made the long-awaited Agrarian Reform in Peru a reality. (Bagnonet, June 26, 2023) La Vía Campesina recognizes the enormous political, social and humanist legacy of our comrade Hugo Blanco, a Peruvian and internationalist, who died yesterday in Sweden. His militancy and commitment marked the organization of peasant farmers for agrarian reform in the 20th century, not only in Peru, but also throughout Latin America. Hugo participated in the fight for the first agrarian reform in Peru, organizing peasants and indigenous people in the early 1960s in the semi-tropical zone of the department of Cusco, more specifically in the province called La Convención and in the district of Lares to the south of the country, where coffee, tea and cocoa are grown. He denounced the exploitation and slave labor experienced by the peasantry, who were forced to work free in days of up to more than 12 hours a day, including women and children. He was sentenced by the Peruvian justice to the death penalty, which he managed to avoid due to a strong international campaign of solidarity, but he spent nearly 7 years in prison and had to live several years in exile as well. “When I entered the room to be judged, and saw my comrades after three years in prison, I yelled: Earth or Death! That was our slogan. They responded: We will win!” He commented in an interview conducted in 2018, and added, “some said that it was Hugo Blanco’s agrarian reform, but it was not Hugo Blanco’s agrarian reform, because when it happened I was already in prison, it was the peasantry in struggle as a whole that conquered the land.” Throughout his militancy, Hugo understood that the struggle and the need for the organization was even broader, not only against the latifundio, but against neoliberalism, capitalism and transnationals. So he became a tireless defender and staunch critic of extractivism and the depredation of Mother Earth. He accompanied marches, walks, crossed and toured the entire country defending the rights and dignity of the peoples of the countryside and cities. “In the past, the struggle was to have land, work and farm. Now that neoliberalism acts and fiercely attacks nature, our fight has changed to the defense of mother earth, of pacha mama, that is the fundamental fight of now. Before I fought to socialize the land, today I have to fight for the maintenance of the human species” he commented. For La Vía Campesina, Hugo Blanco is today a native seed, with an enormous potential for life, which inspired and will continue to inspire many generations in Peru and in the world. His legacy and commitment will endure in the struggle, in the organization and in the collective memory, because ideas do not die, like seeds multiply, grow and bear fruit. */“There are men that fight one day and are good. There are others that fight for a year and are better. Some fight for many years and are very good. But there are those who fight all their lives: those are the essentials» Bertolt Brecht/* Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/viacampesinaOFFICIAL> Twitter <https://twitter.com/viacampesinaEN> Link <https://www.instagram.com/la_via_campesina_official/> Website <https://viacampesina.org/en> To unsubscribe from the distribution list click here <https://mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-en> For questions or comments, email *lvcweb(a)viacampesina.org* <mailto:lvcweb@viacampesina.org?subject=Newsletter%20Comments%3A%20> *Website:* www.viacampesina.org *TV:* www.tv.viacampesina.org To subscribe to this newsletter - Click Here <https://us13.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.viacampesina.…>

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