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La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | April 2018
by La Via Campesina 10 May '18

10 May '18

La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | April 2018 Donate [1] This edition of the newsletter is the result of a collective effort of organisations, which are part of_ La Via Campesina_ movement worldwide. To subscribe click here [2] INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEASANTS' STRUGGLES 2018: LA VIA CAMPESINA CALLS FOR THE COORDINATION OF DECENTRALISED, UNITED ACTION! _For land and for life! Enough Free Trade Agreements, enough impunity!_ (Harare, 10th April 2018) : This 17th April, on the International Day of Peasants' Struggles, La Via Campesina recalls the massacre of the 19 landless peasants, murdered by agribusiness. United in courage and rebellion, we call on our member organisations, allies, friends and organised peoples to coordinate actions of resistance in all forms for Land and sea, on a worldwide scale, against Free Trade Agreements (FTA) and the criminalisation of social struggles. Read more... [3] FEATURED ARTICLES FROM FEB-MARCH 2018 THIS APRIL 17TH WE DEMAND THAT THE PEASANTS RIGHTS ARE GUARANTEED. ENOUGH OF FTAS, ENOUGH IMPUNITY FOR CORPORATIONS! (Harare, April 17th 2018) After two decades of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), being advanced in an attempt to recolonize and 22 years after the de Eldorado dos Carajás massacre in Brazil, La Via Campesina denounces the impunity with which these actions are carried out. Read more... [4] WHEN ORGANIC AGRICULTURE MEETS CORPORATE INTERESTS _Solutions to the problems facing agriculture today need to go beyond organic. They need to be oriented toward food sovereignty._ A recent investigative report by Radio-Canada's La Semaine Verte revealed just how blatantly global corporate interests are appropriating organic agriculture. Read more ... [5] RIGHT TO AGRARIAN REFORM FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY CAMPAIGN: APRIL 17 STATEMENT _Food Sovereignty Campaign (FSC) Press Statement_ Today, 17 April, our movement, the Right To Agrarian Reform for Food Sovereignty Campaign, or in short, The Food Sovereignty Campaign (FSC) , a member of the international peasant's movement, La Via Campesina (LVC) will commemorate the International Day of Peasants' Struggles. Read more ... [6] AGROECOLOGY IS OUR BEST HOPE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT The Sustainable Development Goals present an impressive commitment to eradicating poverty, ending hunger, achieving food security, promoting nutrition and sustainable agriculture and ensuring that no one is left behind. Agroecology is based on traditional and indigenous farming knowledge, and when carried out by peasants has shown to be much more productive per hectare than industrial, agribusiness monoculture. Read more ... [7] KEEP AGRICULTURE OUT OF FREE TRADE! STATEMENT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON FREE TRADE AND AGRICULTURE Seoul, April 19, 2018: Since World Trade Organization was established and the Agreement on Agriculture from the Uruguay Round came into effect, free trade of agricultural products has expanded globally. Since WTO's negotiation around Doha Development Agenda stopped, numerous free trade agreements have been signed, spreading further free trade of agricultural products all over the world. Read more ... [8] THE FAIR OF THE MST GATHERS THOUSANDS IN MEETING ABOUT HEALTHY FOOD Activity honor Paul Singer during the 3rd National Fair of Agrarian Reform in São Paulo "The MST use the Fairs as the main methodology in the debate with the population regarding the Popular Agrarian Reform and healthy food production", said João Pedro Stedile, the national coordinator of the MST. Read more ... [9] PETITION: EU, PROTECT OUR PEASANTS AND FOOD SYSTEMS! _EU governments and leaders_ The 2 billion people working in rural areas are claiming their rights to dignity and our right to healthy diets. A UN declaration on their rights is the most powerful legal instrument against abuses like landgrabs, biopiracy and labour exploitation. Read more... [10] LA VIA CAMPESINA CONDEMNS ISRAEL'S MASSACRE ON 'LAND DAY' 2018 AND CALLS FOR AN IMMEDIATE END TO THE BLOODSHED La Via Campesina firmly condemns the recent assassinations committed by the criminal State of Israel and solemnly supports the Palestinian people in their struggle for land, freedom and dignity. Read more... [11] "LOOKING FORWARD TO THE ADOPTION OF A STRONG UN DECLARATION, CAPABLE OF PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS AND OTHER PEOPLE WORKING IN RURAL AREAS" My name is Zainal Fuat, from the Indonesian Peasant Union (SPI) and from the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) of La Vía Campesina. I hereby speak on behalf of La Vía Campesina, which is the largest international peasant movement bringing together millions of peasants, small and medium size peasants, landless people, rural women and youth, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world. Read more... [12] APRIL 17 – ECVC TO ORGANISE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS! _April 17: Free Farmers from Free Trade Agreements!_ MERCOSUR, CETA, JEFTA ARE A DEATHBLOW On 17th April 1996, a private militia fires and murders 19 landless peasants in Eldorado do Carajas, Para State, Brazil. Their crime? Occupying fallow land belonging to a rich landowner. Read more... [13] THE TIME HAS COME TO SCALE UP PEASANT AGROECOLOGY: LA VIA CAMPESINA AT THE II INTERNATIONAL AGROECOLOGY SYMPOSIUM OF FAO Peasants and other small-scale producers of food are central to bringing agroecology to scale, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva stressed in his closing remarks to the II International Agroecology Symposium at FAO held from 3 to 5 of April of 2018 in Rome. Read more... [14] JOINT STATEMENT BY LVC AND CSOS: 5TH OEIWG SESSION | UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS AND OTHER PEOPLE WORKING IN RURAL AREAS Geneva, Palais des Nations, Room XX / 9-13 April 2018 We peasants, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, fisher folk and rural workers, including rural women from around the globe, from La Via Campesina, IUF, WFFP, FIMARC, IITC along with CETIM, FIAN International and other organizations, represent all together billions of rural people. We have been constructively engaging in this process of the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, from the field, our workplaces around the world and here in Geneva for many years. Read more... [15] STATEMENT BY THE INTERNATIONAL PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY (IPC) FROM PAARL (CAPE TOWN), MARCH 2018 _We build a global food system based on our agroecology and food sovereignty!_ We, the representatives of peasants and family farmers, landless, rural women and rural youth, fishers and fish workers, agricultural workers, hunters and gatherers, pastoralists and herders, Indigenous Peoples, and food consumers from all over the world and who are all members of the IPC, met in Paarl, South Africa to take our struggle for food sovereignty and agroecology forward. Read more... [16] LAW ON LAND PROCUREMENT & HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION IS RESULTING IN PEASANT HOUSES AND LANDS BEING FORCEFULLY GRABBED: SPI, INDONESIA Jakarta: In Central Java, the Batang-Semarang highway construction has led to blatant and unjust grabbing of lands and houses onwed by 140 peasant families from the nine villages of Ngawensari, Galih, Sumbersari, Rejosar, Tunggulsari, Kertomulyo, Penjalin, Magelung and Nolokerto. Read more ... [17] MST DIRECTOR: MOVEMENT HOLDS BRAZIL'S "MOST DIVERSE FAIR" "I dare say this is the biggest fair in Brazil when it comes to diversity," João Paulo Rodrigues, a director of the Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST) said about the third edition of the movement's National Agrarian Reform Fair. Read more... [18] MST FAIR HOLDS SEMINARS AND DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HEALTHY EATING Four-day event takes place from Thursday (3) to Sunday (6) in São Paulo, Brazil Not only tons of healthy products are being sold at the 3rd National Agrarian Reform Fair organized by the Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST), but the event also has a calendar full of seminars dedicated to political education and culture. Read more ... [19] DECLARATION AT THE II INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AGROECOLOGY APRIL, 2018 We are delegates of different organizations and social movements of small-scale food producers. We are peasants, fisherfolk and fish workers, indigenous and traditional peoples, pastoralists and nomads, agricultural and food workers, the landless, urban and peri-urban communities living in poverty and food insecurity, consumers, youth, women and NGOs. Read more ... [20] FEATURED PUBLICATIONS [21] REPORT OF THE VII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF LA VIA CAMPESINA The report from the VII International Conference of La Via Campesina that took place in Basque Country in July 2017, brings to you key moments and important declarations issued by the global peasant movement. Download the PDF [21] FEATURED VIDEOS [22] AGROECOLOGY IS FACING THE THREAT OF CO-OPTION BY CORPORATIONS Watch Video [23] [24] 25 YEARS OF THE STRUGGLES OF LA VIA CAMPESINA - TEASER WATCH VIDEO [25] 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 [1]. [26] [27] Twitter [27] [28] Facebook [28] [29] Vimeo [29] To unsubscribe from the distribution list click here [2] 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 [2] Links: ------ [1] https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/viacampesina [2] https://mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-en [3] https://viacampesina.org/en/international-day-of-peasants-struggles-2018-la… [4] https://viacampesina.org/en/this-april-17th-we-demand-that-the-peasants-rig… [5] https://viacampesina.org/en/when-organic-agriculture-meets-corporate-intere… [6] https://viacampesina.org/en/right-to-agrarian-reform-for-food-sovereignty-c… [7] https://viacampesina.org/en/agroecology-is-our-best-hope-for-sustainable-de… [8] https://viacampesina.org/en/keep-agriculture-out-of-free-trade-statement-fr… [9] https://viacampesina.org/en/the-fair-of-the-mst-gathers-thousands-in-meetin… [10] https://viacampesina.org/en/petition-eu-protect-our-peasants-and-food-syste… [11] https://viacampesina.org/en/la-via-campesina-condemns-israels-massacre-on-l… [12] https://viacampesina.org/en/we-are-looking-forward-to-the-adoption-of-a-str… [13] https://viacampesina.org/en/april-17-ecvc-to-organise-demonstration-against… [14] https://viacampesina.org/en/the-time-has-come-to-scale-up-peasant-agroecolo… [15] https://viacampesina.org/en/joint-statement-from-la-via-campesina-and-other… [16] https://viacampesina.org/en/the-ipc-statement-from-paarl-cape-town/ [17] https://viacampesina.org/en/law-on-land-procurement-highway-construction-is… [18] https://viacampesina.org/en/mst-director-movement-holds-brazils-most-divers… [19] https://viacampesina.org/en/mst-fair-holds-seminars-and-discussions-about-h… [20] https://viacampesina.org/en/declaration-at-the-ii-international-symposium-o… [21] https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/EN-rev7-lowr… [22] https://youtu.be/h9c6FLtddUk [23] https://tv.viacampesina.org/Agroecology-is-facing-the-threat?lang=es [24] https://vimeo.com/264561758 [25] https://tv.viacampesina.org/25-years-of-the-Struggles-of-La?lang=en [26] https://viacampesina.org/en/donations/ [27] http://www.twitter.com/via_campesina [28] https://www.facebook.com/viacampesinaOFFICIAL/ [29] https://vimeo.com/viacampesina

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This April 17th we demand that the Peasants rights are guaranteed. Enough of FTAs, enough impunity for Corporations!
by La Via Campesina 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

THIS APRIL 17TH WE DEMAND THAT THE PEASANTS RIGHTS ARE GUARANTEED. ENOUGH OF FTAS, ENOUGH IMPUNITY FOR CORPORATIONS! 17 APRIL 2018 FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS [1] (Harare, April 17th 2018) After two decades of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), being advanced in an attempt to recolonize and 22 years after the de Eldorado dos Carajás massacre in Brazil, La Via Campesina denounces the impunity with which these actions are carried out. The global peasant movement issues a call to resist, in an organized way, these treaties that try to take over of our natural resources and local markets, for the benefit of the transnational capital and agribusinesses, with the States playing a mute spectator or an accomplice. This 17th April, on the occasion of the International Day of Peasant´s Struggle, the member organisations and allies of La Via Campesina are organizing scores of unified and decentralized actions in a global scale, for the right to land and water, against the Free Trade Agreement and against the criminalization of the social struggle saying: Enough FTA, enough impunity! The FTAs are more than just commerce. These are agreements that enforce structural reforms, which in turn strengthen the transnational corporations (International legally binding instrument on transnational corporations (TNCs) [2], the economic interests of the national elites and the governments. Free Trade Agreements have the global objective to commercialise water, land, seeds and taking over life itself. Bilateral and Regional free trade agreements that are done between two or more governments, even though may remain outside the World Trade Organisation, and are also tools to advance the neo-liberal agenda. Just as the mistrust of FTAs are growing, so are the acts of resistances and mobilisations. Today, and in the coming weeks, our organizations all around the world are organising several actions to denounce the adverse impact FTAs have had on peasant families and food sovereignty. The European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) is mobilising in the region and demanding from the European Union to free the peasants from Free Trade Agreements! [3] Protesting the MERCOSUR, CETA, JEFTA free trade agreements, ECVC states "these treaties are a fatal blow to us, small and medium farmers already in a situation of crisis. These agreements facilitates dumping and the expansion of agroindustry at the expense of peasant communities". CLOC, the Latin American Coordination of Via Campesina calls upon the people to resist the impunity of Corporations that carry out human rights violations. It insists on building new alternatives in the territories and demand the implementation of popular agrarian reform that guarantees food sovereignty to the people. The International Coordination Committee (ICC) of La Via Campesina is also meeting in South Korea in the week, starting April 17. To commemorate the struggle against FTAs, the ICC will also take part in the International Forum on Free Trade and Agriculture in Seoul on April 19. "Even though World Trade Organisation (WTO) has failed in their multi-lateral agreements, it still functions as the world's police enforcing the neoliberal Free Trade Agreements. And with the FTAs the corporations and States are carrying out an assault against the peasantry. Institutions such as the WTO, World Bank, International Monetary Fund never work for the peasants and for this reason, as peasants, we think that they should just disappear" says Kim Jeong Yeol from the Korean Women Peasant Association and an ICC member. La Via Campesina this day also denounces the systematic violations of the peasants fundamental rights that could be alarming, in countries like Brazil, Paraguay, Honduras, Colombia among others thousands of peasants are murdered with total impunity. In Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, The Philippines and Pakistan, thousands of peasants are murdered with total impunity and many violations of peasants' rights also occur. These incidents tend to aggravate because of the FTAs that are exclusively to the service of the corporations and the capital. This is why in this context we demand a "UN Declaration recognising the Rights of Peasants and Other People working in Rural Areas". Free Trade Agreements promote land and water grabbing, destroy local markets and put food sovereignty at risk all together. And the effects are far wider and promote the privatisation of public services as well - like health services, medicine, telecommunications, energy, the water supply provisions, - among others- opening vast areas to foreign investment. In many cases the signatory governments are forced to reform their laws, and carry out irreversible compromises. The protection of the investments forbids agrarian reform, as Governments prioritises investor interests over national democratic decisions. Through such agreements, the Corporations strengthen their power to influence policies and regulations in these signatory countries. MOBILIZE! This April 17th join the different mobilizations united to struggle for a systematic change, defending the land, territories and food sovereignty for the people, saying: No to FTAs and global capitalism! No FTA benefits the working class, we must eradicate them not reform them"! We feed our people and build movement to change world! The report of VII Conference is now available on line here [4] PRESS CONTACTS: Nury Martínez - Fensuagro Colombia - La Vía Campesina South America - Spanish: +573107720098 Federico Pacheco - SOC España - La Vía Campesina Europe - French: +34690651046 Kim Jeong-Yeol - Korean Women Peasant Association- La Vía Campesina Asia - English: +821048117996 SEE MAP OF EVENT : AFFICHER EN PLEIN ECRAN → [5] Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-against/capitalism-and-fre… [2] http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/RES/26/9 [3] http://www.eurovia.org/event/april-17-call-for-action-free-farmers-from-fre… [4] https://viacampesina.org/en/report-of-the-vii-international-conference-of-l… [5] http://u.osmfr.org/m/210619/

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International Day of Peasants’ Struggles 2018: La Via Campesina calls for the coordination of decentralised, united action!
by La Via Campesina 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEASANTS' STRUGGLES 2018: LA VIA CAMPESINA CALLS FOR THE COORDINATION OF DECENTRALISED, UNITED ACTION! FOR LAND AND FOR LIFE! ENOUGH FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS, ENOUGH IMPUNITY! ------------------------- (HARARE, 10TH APRIL 2018) : This 17th April, on the International Day of Peasants' Struggles, La Via Campesina recalls the massacre of the 19 landless peasants, murdered by agribusiness (#AgroMata). United in courage and rebellion, we call on our member organisations, allies, friends and organised peoples to coordinate actions of resistance in all forms for Land and sea, on a worldwide scale, against Free Trade Agreements (FTA) and the criminalisation of social struggles. We celebrate this important day of international mobilisations for the defense of social demands against government forces and large multinational companies. These companies usurp natural resources and smother the defense of millions of peasant and indigenous families in their legitimate fight for land, water and territory. We condemn the advance of capital over peoples and territories. Capitalism, racism and patriarchy form an intertwined model of multiple domination with the monopolisation of land, the looting of common property, labour exploitation and the control of bodies and misogyny. We live faced with the massive violation of human rights, where crimes past and present go unpunished, popular movements are criminalised, and where social leaders disappear or are murdered. The impunity of the state terrorism of the past has become the basis of impunity for big businesses today. In this context, Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) serve as instruments propelled by corporations and States to establish the rules by which our natural resources are sold; they commercialise humanity's shared resources, such as land and water, and use them to generate profit. Today, FTAs represent the expression of an anti-democratic wave on a global level, which attempts to impose the economic interests of the few over the well-being and quality of life of the many. Faced with international capital and Free Trade Agreements, at La Via Campesina, we unite to defend and achieve agrarian reform in the sense of the people's right to land, territory, water and indigenous seeds: the fundamental basis of Food Sovereignty. Multinational corporations and antidemocratic states promote unfair practices to boost extractivism, the looting of the land, large-scale monocultures for exportation, and the use of lands primarily for large-scale monocultures for agribusiness. Land and water are becoming increasingly important, and are the focus of strong economic interest, as much for national elites as for foreign ones. For this reason, there exist today alarming persecutions, criminalisation, evictions and deaths amongst peasants as well as indigenous and coloured peoples in the defence of their lands and against the exploitation of common resources. This 17th April (#17April) we ask you to participate in the numerous actions planned on a global level: organise marches, forums, seminars, rural fairs or film screenings. Every form of expression is important in denouncing the terrible effects of FTAs on the peasantry and on Food Sovereignty. Please share all actions planned for this day by emailing us at: lvcweb(a)viacampesina.org. We want to create a visual representation of them on our map of global action. Send us your articles, sound recordings, photographs and videos, as well, so that we can broadcast them online and on VíaCampesinaTV. TOGETHER, WE CAN FEED OUR PEOPLE AND CREATE A MOVEMENT TO CHANGE THE WORLD! AGAINST THE LOOTING OF RESOURCES AND IMPERIALISM; SUPPORTING THE LAND AND SOVEREIGNTY OF OUR PEOPLE! La Via Campesina fights! ------------------------- FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: @via_campesina [1] Facebook: ViaCampesinaOFFICIAL [2] Links: ------ [1] https://twitter.com/via_campesina [2] https://www.facebook.com/viacampesinaOFFICIAL/

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La Via Campesina | e-newsletter Feb March 2018
by La Via Campesina 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | Feb-March 2018 Donate [1] This edition of the newsletter is the result of a collective effort of organisations, which are part of_ La Via Campesina_ movement worldwide. To subscribe click here [2] #8MARCH 2018: PEASANT WOMEN OF LA VIA CAMPESINA AND ALLIES MOBILISE WORLD OVER | HIGHLIGHTS A summary of several mobilisations in which peasant women joined other social movements to mark the International Women's Day. Read More [3] FEATURED ARTICLES FROM FEB-MARCH 2018 LA VIA CAMPESINA INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNS MARCINHO'S MURDER AND DEMANDS THAT THE CULPRITS BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE! Marcinho, 33, who was a prominent MST leader in the peasant struggle in Bahia, was murdered in front of his son with three gun shots to his head. Read More [4] URGENT CALL FOR SUPPORT OF SOC-SAT AGAINST EVICTION AT CERRO LIBERTAD A major battle is being fought by our members, the SOC-SAT workers' union, in Andalusia at the "Cerro Liberta" (Liberty Hill) estate in Jaen against BBVA, one of the largest financial multinationals in Europe. And they need our support! Read More [5] FAMA FINAL DECLARATION REAFFIRMS: "WATER IS NOT A COMMODITY, WATER BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE" Water is life, it is health, it is food, it is territory, it is human right, it is a sacred common good. Read More [6] IN THE FACE OF SYSTEM COLLAPSE, OUR MAJOR STRENGTH IS AN ALTERNATIVE KNOWN AS FOOD SOVEREIGNTY Member organisations of LVC met in Andalucia, to work on the common strategies and tactics of the peasantry to tackle the global challenges that they face. Read More [7] TRAVERSING THE DRY CORRIDOR | AN ACCOUNT OF THE PEASANT WOMEN COOPERATIVES IN HONDURAS Environmental changes in the Dry Corridor - Corredor Seco - and Atlantic Coast have driven migration in Honduras, one of the countries most affected by climate change. Here, women have gathered together in old and new collectives, as they struggle to create economic opportunities and grow crops against increasing weather variability. Read More [8] "WE SPEAK OUT ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO DEFEND LIVES, MARIELLE FRANCO IS PRESENT WITH US We call on the Brazilian state to conduct an immediate and rigorous investigation into the case of Marielle Franco, using its various relevant bodies. What is more, we demand justice for the hundreds of murders that have been denounced by our member organisations in Brazil. Read More [9] INDIA ENRAGED: FARMERS AGITATION REACHES MAJOR CITIES In two days, two major cities of India - Mumbai and Delhi - witnessed thousands of farmers and farm workers demonstrating peacefully but with a steely resolve to make themselves heard. Read [10] PUTTANNAIAH JI, REST IN POWER! In a show of gratitude and solidarity to the innumerable struggles led by Shri K S Puttannaiah, the iconic peasant leader of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha and Green Brigade, thousands of farmers from the state brought sacks of soil to dedicate it to him as he was being laid to rest. Read More [11] FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND PEASANT RIGHTS, THE STRUGGLE MOVES ON: ECVC HOLDS ITS 11TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY Armed with a fighting spirit and great solidarity, more than 50 peasant delegates from across Europe gathered in Brussels in mid-January to celebrate their 11th General Assembly (GA). The event was an excellent occasion to welcome two new candidate organisations and to carry out an action in front of the offices of the European Commission for the regulation of the new GMOs that the biotechnology sector is currently promoting. Read More [12] SOUTH EAST AND EAST ASIA PEASANT WOMEN EXTEND UNCONDITIONAL SOLIDARITY TO VILLAGERS RESISTING THAAD MISSILE SYSTEM IN SOUTH KOREA Withdraw US War Weapon THAAD" "No to THAAD, Yes to Peace Read More [13] FEATURED PUBLICATIONS Newsletter no 33 - Kids and Food Sovereignty Download your copy here [14] Via Campesina Europe publishes an in-depth guide to Food Sovereignty Download your copy here [15] FEATURED VIDEOS [16] Sowing Seeds of Resistance Watch Video [17] [18] Farmers' Demonstration by BKU, India | March 2018 Watch Video [19] 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 [1]. 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La Via Campesina: “We speak out on behalf of those who defend lives, Marielle Franco is present with us”
by La Via Campesina 27 Mar '18

27 Mar '18

LA VIA CAMPESINA: "WE SPEAK OUT ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO DEFEND LIVES, MARIELLE FRANCO IS PRESENT WITH US" [1] "IF YOU TREMBLE WITH INDIGNATION AT EVERY INJUSTICE, THEN YOU ARE A COMRADE OF MINE". ------------------------- (Harare, 21 March 2018) La Via Campesina demands justice and calls for unified mobilisations in order to speak out against worldwide structural violence committed by capital. This is all against a background of growing fascism, coups, violent wars, a worrying decrease in democracy, the gradual withdrawal of historic rights, in addition to the string of murders and criminalising of social leaders who are committed to defending lives and natural resources. On 14 March 2018, with a great deal of sorrow and indignation, La Via Campesina came to learn of the murder of comrade Marielle Franco. Marielle, also a friend of MST and a number of organisations within La Via Campesina Brazil, was a black activist who was very well known in the city of Rio de Janerio for her important work in protecting human rights and social equality - in a country where there is a questionable concentration and unfair distribution of wealth. Brazil is one of the countries that has had the most murders of social and environmental leaders (landless people, indigenous people, quilombolas, peasants, trade unionists) in recent years. At the time, Marielle was serving as a City Councillor, and she vehemently denounced the constant misuse and abuse of power carried out by public security. The situation was aggravated a month ago when president Michel Temer authorised a military intervention. This despicable fact is added to the bloody list of murders of social leaders, which take place both in the countryside and in the city - like the murder of Honduran Bertha Cáceras, who was murdered two years ago and whose killers remain unpunished. La Via Campesina therefore calls for human rights organisations to urgently intervene, so that the right to life - in addition to other rights - are upheld and respected for all members of the working class, both in the global north and the global south. We call on the Brazilian state to conduct an immediate and rigorous investigation into the case of Marielle Franco, using its various relevant bodies. What is more, we demand justice for the hundreds of murders that have been denounced by our member organisations in Brazil. We call for no crime to go unpunished, because impunity is one of the main reasons why leaders have been murdered in Brazil. We call for an end to the repression and criminalisation of those who defend life in Brazil and the rest of the world. Finally, we would like to reiterate our solidarity not just with all Brazilian people, but also all the people, men, women, young people and children who struggle and resist the violence of capital, poverty, occupation, evictions and exclusion and fight for human dignity, social justice and sovereignty. We come together and speak out on behalf of Black people, Landless People, people who have been cut off from resources, people who fight against mining, indigenous peoples, and peasants who uphold Food Sovereignty, to say the following: GRIEF IS STRUGGLE! GLOBALISE THE STRUGGLE, GLOBALISE HOPE! ------------------------- Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/la-via-campesina-we-speak-out-on-behalf-of-thos…

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March 8: We salute the struggle of women in the countryside, towns and cities | La Via Campesina
by La Via Campesina 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

WE SALUTE THE STRUGGLE OF WOMEN, IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND IN TOWNS AND CITIES : LA VIA CAMPESINA STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY ON THE OCCASION OF MARCH 8TH, THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY (HARARE, ZIMBABWE, MARCH 8TH, 2018): Today, on International Women's Day, we, the women of La Via Campesina - peasants, indigenous women, Afro-descendants, mestizas, fishers, pastoralists, women from urban and rural areas, belonging to different organisations with different forms of mobilisation and activism - want to salute the women workers of the world. We send special greetings to women who are struggling and who are fighting, not only to earn their living, but also for political participation, equal rights,equity and for the recognition of our work, our accomplishments and our knowledge in the construction of a fairer world for men and women. We pay tribute to those women who are engaged in a constant struggle to end violence against women and against all human beings, women who are breaking the silence. We pay tribute to women who confront the structural oppression of capitalism, refusing to accept the ingrained patriarchal patterns in societies where, every day, women are the victims of violence, discrimination, exploitation, oppression and murder. We are called upon to reaffirm the necessity of ending violence against women, our ongoing Campaign to End Violence towards Women that was renewed at the 7th La Via Campesina International Conference in Bilbao in 2017. ------------------------- READ: VII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: WOMEN'S ASSEMBLY DECLARATION [1] ------------------------- We express our appreciation for women who are not afraid to struggle - in very different ways and in a wide variety of cultural and geographical settings - for land, food sovereignty, water, seeds, and agroecology, as well as for education and health services. We admire women who are struggling within factories or in their day to day lives, and all of the women who are fighting for political, economic, and social emancipation. In a spirit of solidarity, we acknowledge and value ourselves, as women who are making dreams come true and constructing new societies, together with the working classes of the world. We are also aware that we are suffering from a worldwide onslaught from imperialist capitalism, with its intrinsic ties to the conservative and fascist patriarchy, which is constantly seeking to increase the exploitation of our land, territories, and natural resources, a well as to increase the exploitation of women's work, their lives, and their bodies. Every day, our rights are violated by the actions of transnational corporations that are the root causes of migration, and that generate familial and social conflicts and provide fuel for wars. We are violated and demeaned by prostitution, the trafficking of women, and sexual exploitation. Furthermore, we are criminalised because of our struggles, because we choose life rather than death. We face the constant challenge of confronting domestic violence and assault - be it physical, psychological, moral, or sexual - that all too often end in murder, disappearance, or suicide. It is in this context that we reaffirm our feminism and our commitment to the struggles for gender parity and for full political participation in all decision-making bodies. We are also reasserting the need for day to day collective practical actions, going beyond speeches and motions, to end violence against women everywhere. Yes, we have a lot to commemorate, starting with the first struggles by women factory workers for higher wages, better working and living conditions. Yes, all over the world, womens' contributions have given us much to remember. Yes, we have a lot to commemorate in women's struggles for universal suffrage and for full recognition as equal human beings. A tribute to the women who gave their lives, in the struggle for the rights of women in different areas, who suffered torture, sexual and moral violations, who were disappeared, imprisoned, beheaded, massacred for defending life, dignity, Mother Earth and the rights of women. We will follow their examples, their traces, legacies that they have left for us in different spaces of work as well as day-to-day lives. For these reasons, we know that, in order to guarantee respect for our rights, much more is asked of us at this time. We must have the courage to confront that even greater monster which sustains the patriarchy and is the source of all of the injustice suffered by workers all over the world. It is in this spirit that we salute the struggles, the activities, marches, mobilisations, and meetings of the women throughout the world who are confronting the forces of patriarchy and capitalism that threaten the lives of women, nature itself, and the life of the planet. This is why we say that without feminism we cannot build a new society. WE SALUTE THE STRUGGLE OF WOMEN, IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND IN TOWNS AND CITIES. A WARM EMBRACE FROM THE WOMEN OF LA VIA CAMPESINA TO ALL WOMEN WHO ARE INVOLVED IN STRUGGLE! ------------------------- Please send us details and dates of mobilisation in your region on lvcweb(a)viacampesina.org You can follow details and visuals of our mobilisation on our social media pages and the website. * Website: www.viacampesina.org [2] * Facebook: ViaCampesinaOfficial * Twitter (English): @via_campesina * Hashtags: #PopularPeasantFeminism #8March ------------------------- We also have produced posters, social media banners that you could use during the week. Download the posters here [3] Download social media banners here [4] Download banner thumbnails here [5] Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/vii-international-conference-womens-assembly-de… [2] http://www.viacampesina.org [3] https://cloud.viacampesina.org/index.php/s/7zBmulOAyudFsbe [4] https://cloud.viacampesina.org/index.php/s/8GSmNQywNc4Smuy [5] https://cloud.viacampesina.org/index.php/s/hQgDgETzn7L3vas

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Nyeleni Newsletter: Latest edition is out!
by La Via Campesina 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

NYELENI NEWSLETTER: CHILDREN AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY We are aware that to achieving a world where peoples' food sovereignty is a reality demands crucial discussions about food systems, access to and control over natural resources, political and legal debates on gender and on seeds, as well as social struggles and mobilization. But one essential element among these - and progressively gaining more attention - is the role of children. The future of the struggles for the realization of food sovereignty and the right to food depends on how our children are aware of the challenges regarding how we produce our food, by whom and for whom it is produced. Instead of perceiving children as a market niche, as big food companies have been, we see the youngest generations as the foundation for transforming our food systems. Download the Newsletter [1] Links: ------ [1] https://nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_33_EN.pdf

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La Via Campesina International condemns Marcinho’s murder, demands justice!
by La Via Campesina 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

LA VIA CAMPESINA INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNS MARCINHO'S MURDER AND DEMANDS THAT THE CULPRITS BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE! JANUARY 26, 2018: La Via Campesina strongly condemns the murder of comrade Márcio Matos (Marcinho) leader of the MST in the state of Bahia in Brazil, on January 24, outside his home, in the Boa Sorte camp, in Iramaia falling in the Chapada Diamantina region. Marcinho, 33, who was a prominent MST leader in the peasant struggle in Bahia, was murdered in front of his son with three gun shots to his head. The death of Marcinho is adding to a long list of peasant leaders and social activists, many of them members of the MST, who have been killed for their tireless struggle to reclaim and take land for the dispossessed families and the landless. Criminalisation of the peasant movements and social struggles, followed by attacks, arrests and imprisonment including the murder of the peasant leaders and human rights defenders are now widespread. These are part of a violent and repressive policy, which aims to contain the movement for an agrarian and popular reform that can put agriculture at the service of the people instead of turning it into a tool to generate profits for a handful of corporations. In this backdrop, La Via Campesina strongly condemns the murder of Marcinho and demands that the perpetrators be brought to trial. We urge all members of La Via Campesina to be aware of this call for justice for Marcinho and his family, since the crimes against peasant leaders and social activists are taking place in an environment of impunity and violence promoted by the criminal State. Finally, we extend to MST - our sister organization, an unconditional solidarity and we place ourselves at your disposal to support your of struggle for justice for Marcinho and his family. That the murder of Marcinho serve to inspire us and to strength our commitment to continue fighting for the rights of the peasants and against this system of death and violence. For Marcinho, not just a minute of silence but a whole life of struggle! _ MARCINHO LIVES, THE FIGHT CONTINUES!_ _ MARCINHO LIVES, THE FIGHT CONTINUES!_ _ MARCINHO LIVES, THE FIGHT CONTINUES!_ _ LET'S GLOBALIZE THE FIGHT, GLOBALISE THE HOPE!_

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La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | Jan, 2018
by La Via Campesina 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | Jan 2018 Donate [1] This edition of the newsletter is the result of a collective effort of organisations, which are part of_ La Via Campesina_ movement worldwide. To subscribe click here [2] Onward to 2018! #LaViaCampesina [3] #2018 - The creation of La Via Campesina was principally founded on actions of solidarity, the urgency of mobilizing solidarity as a fundamental value in light of the evictions, repression, detentions and even massacres that peasants, men and women, were facing (and are still facing) in various parts of the world. Accordingly we highlight this call, just as we received the XV Navarre International Prize 2017 for Solidarity: "Globalizing the struggle also means globalizing solidarity, and the hope of the peoples of the world". We feed the people and we build the movement to change the world! To read the full text of our acceptance speech, follow this link: http://bit.ly/Navarra-ViaCampesina FEATURED ARTICLES [DEC '17 & JAN '18] CELEBRATING THE FAILURE OF WTO NEGOTIATION IN ARGENTINA" With the outcomes of the 11th Ministerial Conference (MC11) considered a "total failure", La Via Campesina celebrates this impasse while calling on all movements to remain vigilant at the same time. Read More [4] ARGENTINA: FINAL STATEMENT OF THE PEOPLES' SUMMIT The WTO and FTAs hide behind the mask of "green alternatives" while ultimately and solely supporting the extractivist model, especially mining and the extraction of fossil fuels. Read More [5] OPEN-LETTER TO EU COMMISSION: DON'T ALLOW PATENTS ON PLANTS & ANIMALS Open letter addressed to European Commissioners (DG Growth, Agri and Sante) by ECVC, alerting them on the dangers of patents on plants and animals. Read More [6] THE SHAMELESS FRAUD IN THE HONDURAS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS We reaffirm our support for the Honduran people, and we support their struggles in defense of their self-determination, and the peasant organizations that are filling the streets of the country. R [7]ead More [8] THREE PEASANTS HAVE BEEN KILLED BY THE SECURITY FORCES IN MALI; EIGHT OTHERS ARE IN PRISON Since 2011, there has been a terrible conflict over land ownership in seven villages in the Cercle de San in Mali.. R [7]ead More [8] "WTO OUT – BUILDING SOVEREIGNTY" Read the full text of the Declaration by over 300 attendees of the Forum on Food Sovereignty from more than 30 countries in 4 continents - denounce first of all the violence of Free Trade. Read More [9] ANTI-WTO PROTESTS SPREADS AROUND THE WORLD. Social movements around the world protested the devastating effects of WTO on world's people, just as MC 11 was underway in Argentina. Read about the protests in Indonesia, [10] statements by Indian farmers [11] , position paper by Korean peasants. [12] FORCED EVICTIONS OF MST MEMBERS IN NORTHERN BRAZIL An aggressive attack is being waged against landless farmers in the northern state of Pará, Brazil, according to a statement released by the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in December. Read More [13] A YEAR AFTER SIGNING OF PEACE AGREEMENTS: European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) reports on the implementation of the peace agreements between the FARC EP and the Colombian government. Read More [14] LEGALLY BINDING TREATY ON TNCS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: ATTEMPT AT SABOTAGE IN NEW YORK! The European Union aims to Eliminate the Financing of the United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group Entrusted with Drafting a Legally Binding Treaty on TNCs and Human Rights Read More [15] FEATURED PUBLICATIONS Nyéléni Newsletter no 32 - Climate Justice Download your copy here [16] FEATURED VIDEOS [17] "WTO Kills Farmers", La Via Campesina protest during 11th Ministerial Conference of WTO Watch Video [17] [18] WTO Out! Building Sovereignty: A video report of the La Via Campesina delegtaion in Argentina Watch Video [19] [20] What is food sovereignty? Watch Video [21] 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 [1]. 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Latest edition of Nyéléni Newsletter on Climate Justice is out!
by La Via Campesina 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

NYÉLÉNI NEWSLETTER NO 32 – CLIMATE JUSTICE Oh! Oh! Nature mourns, Humanity perishes! Why? Seasons have changed Now unpredictable and unreliable! Hotter, drier and shorter! Winds and storms harsher and destructive Mother Earth mourns, the land is barren. Women, men and children, plants and animals perish! Capitalist industrial agriculture, what have you done? Everywhere, Mother Earth crumbles As toxics and harmful GMO seeds swell her belly. Heavy machines trample her belly Their dark plumes polluting the sky, A new baby, Climate Change, is conceived and born! Oh! What is all this? Ecological niches shrink Biodiversity fast disappears Greater uncertainty hovers everywhere Heightened risks for us the food producers Traditional agriculture knowledge is fast eroding What and who shall save us? Climate change knows no peace, Hungers only for destruction! Greed for profits feeds him! Extreme, extreme, extreme weather phenomena are your fruits! Environmental and humanitarian disasters! Floods, droughts, landslides, diseases! Humanity cries: No Food! Nature cries: Inhabitable! Inhabitable! Is there a remedy? Yes but we hear only false solutions! Free Markets, REDD, Climate Smart agriculture, Green economy, Agrofuels, Carbon trading, land grabbing, more industrial farming, Massive use of herbicides, inorganic fertilizers and More GMOs! Oh Lord! All to grow climate change! Why? Profits! Profits! More profits! Cries Capitalism, his father! But hope looms in the horizon Food sovereignty, our hope! Comes to restore social justice to humanity, Ecological sustainability to nature Biodiversity and cultural diversity to all peoples of Mother Earth! Arise ye peoples, women and men, the landless, peasants, indigenous farmers, forest and fisherfolks, Let your hope be heard in all the corners of the earth! Peasant Agroecology for Climate Justice NOW! Globalise Struggle! Globalise Hope! _ZIMBABWEAN PEASANT MOVEMENT_ ------------------------- DOWNLOAD THE NEWSLETTER HERE [1] Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Nyeleni_News…

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