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[Info EN] La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | June 2018
by La Via Campesina 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | June 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] A HANDFUL OF COUNTRIES LEGITIMISING CLAIMS MADE BY AGRO-INDUSTRY, DIMINISHING THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE TO SEEDS Convention on Biological Diversity - twenty-second meeting of the SUBSIDIARY BODY ON SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVICE (SBSTTA) - Montréal, Canada, July 2nd-7th, 2018 Read the press release from La Via Campesina [3] FEATURED ARTICLES FROM JUNE 2018 ALL UNITED WITH USB AND THE STRUGGLE OF MIGRANT RURAL WORKERS IN LIGHT OF THE MURDER OF SOUMAILA SACKO! Together with our comrades of USB and our Italian member ARI, in deep condolences of Soumaila's family, we will not allow Italy's and Europe's racist doctrine to have the last word. Read More [4] TERRITORIAL MARKETS: VIA CAMPESINA MEMBERS AND ALLIES PARTICIPATE IN THE WORKSHOP IN ROME Members of La Via Campesina from Asia, Africa, Europe, South America participated in the meeting to build participatory methodology of research on territorial markets around the world, together with researchers, FAO, allies like ROPPA and other civil society organisations. Read More [5] SMALL–SCALE FARMERS OF AFRICA AND DENMARK REJECT FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS Danish and African small-scale farmers share a strong interest in mitigating climate change and preventing the dumping of European (and North American) farm products into food markets of countries of the Global South. Read More [6] LVC SOUTHERN & EASTERN AFRICA AND ALLIES WRITE OPEN LETTER TO THE REGIONAL MEMBER STATES DEMANDING CLIMATE JUSTICE The Open Letter moves on to make concrete demands for actions to be adopted by governments, civil society organizations and other key stakeholders, and proposals that should inform national, regional and global policies. Read More [7] PAKISTAN: STRUGGLES OF TENANT FARMERS IN OKARA MILITARY FARMS British colonialists bestowed vast tracts of land mainly to the revenue collectors (zemindars) in order to raise land revenue. This grafted native Indians onto the British structure, insuring their loyalty to British authority. After partition this class, along with the comprador bourgeoisie, became Pakistan's hybrid ruling class.Farooq Tariq, General Secretary, Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee writes Read More [8] A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN SCALING UP AGROECOLOGICAL FARMING IN KARNATAKA, INDIA In the announcement made at the meeting with social movements, the government of Karnataka has agreed to start a pilot project and set up teams who will work in 10 agro-climatic zones of the state to scale up this model in a systematic way. Read More [9] FEATURED PUBLICATIONS LA VIA CAMPESINA - 2017 ANNUAL REPORT IS OUT! The 2017 annual report highlights selected struggles towards strengthening the international movement and the VIIth La Via Campesina International Conference deliberations and celebrations. This gathering and the various struggles throughout 2017 were moments of renewal of the spirit of peoples' resistances, building solidarity and exchanging the tales of struggle from our territories with each other. Download your copy here [10] _'BACK DOWN TO EARTH' – A REFLECTION PAPER ON NEW ENTRANTS IN AGRICULTURE BY ECVC_ The Common Agricultural Policy does not support these new farms and new entrants. Given the current situation in which citizens demand more and more high-quality, locally-sourced food, the time has come to encourage and support farms and small-scale farmers that are trying to rebuild the fractured local markets in Europe and pave the way for a new generation of food producers. Download your copy here [11] FEATURED VIDEOS [12] Why is the proposed _UN Declaration for Rights of Peasants and Other People working in Rural Areas _important? In this video Henry Saragih of La Via Campesina explains the history and the importance of this proposed declaration and why is it important for members and allies to mobilise in support of it. Watch Video [13] 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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[Info EN] La Via Campesina: 2017 Annual report is out!
by La Via Campesina 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

LA VIA CAMPESINA: 2017 ANNUAL REPORT IS OUT! TITLE: La Via Campesina. 2017 Annual report YEAR: May 2017 LANGUAGE: English (also available in French and Spanish) Summary: The 2017 annual report highlights selected struggles towards strengthening the international movement and the VIIth La Via Campesina International Conference deliberations and celebrations. The conference whose theme was _"We feed our peoples and build the movement to change the world"_ signified the collective processes to develop ideas, proposals, joint struggles and alternative projects to confront neoliberal agenda as well as the rise of right-wing politics. This gathering and the various struggles throughout 2017 were moments of renewal of the spirit of peoples' resistances, building solidarity and exchanging the tales of struggle from our territories with each other, presenting new opportunities and challenges to "Globalizing the Struggle, [and] Globalising Hope". A major effort was made in 2017 to bolster women and the youth to have a stronger voice within La Via Campesina to effectively shape the decisions and build a movement based on equality through removing barriers to their participation and continuing to implement the campaign to end all forms of violence against women. EDITION: La Via Campesina Download the report here [1]. Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/2017_Annual_…

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[Info EN] Press Release: La Via Campesina denounces corporate influence in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Canada
by La Via Campesina 30 Jun '18

30 Jun '18

LA VIA CAMPESINA DENOUNCES CORPORATE INFLUENCE IN THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (CBD) IN CANADA HARARE, 29 JUNE: The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will hold meetings of the XXII Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) in Montreal July 2-7, 2018 to prepare for the main decisions to be made at the 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Parts on the Convention on Biological Diversity in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt at the end of November - decisions of utmost importance for the future of peasants and, more broadly, all of humanity and the planet. IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS YEAR'S SBSTTA, LA VIA CAMPESINA DEMAND THAT THE GOVERNMENTS REJECT: - The release of invisible and unidentified genetically modified living organisms resulting from the so-called new genetic engineering techniques and designed to completely eliminate certain animal and plant species ("gene drives") - The modification of international rules and regulations that permit States, the right to reject genetically-modified plants and animals, forcing them instead to accept new genetic engineering techniques - The allowance of free and unlimited access by a few transitional corporations to the genetic sequences of living organisms. The pretext of computerized dematerialization of these sequences gives them the ability to patent all seeds, all farm animals, all medicines, and all other industrialized products derived from natural biodiversity La Via Campesina will be present in Montreal to oppose the transnational corporations and the policies that support their attempts to change the international conventions of the United Nations to plunder and destroy rather than protect all of the earth's freely existing biodiversity and replacing it with synthetic organisms designed in their laboratories. Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists and fisherfolk live and work daily within biological diversity. We understand that human beings are part of this diversity and that it must be respected and protected as our lives, our food, and our future generations depend on it. Protecting peasants' and Indigenous Peoples' knowledge, as well as our rights to the sustainable use of biodiversity, is at the heart of our struggle against privatization and destruction. Defending true biodiversity and the nature that feeds and supports us is an element of Food Sovereignty. Food Sovereignty advocates for the rights of peoples rather than corporations to determine the advance and applicability of any and all technology introduced into the natural world. It preserves the rights of citizens and food producers as integral to any decisions about the future and resilience of the worlds's food system. ------------------- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND INTERVIEWS WITH THE LVC DELEGATION, CONTACT: [FR/EN] Geneviève Lalumière (Quebec) | genevieve.lalumiere(a)gmail.com | 1.514.577.9265 [FR/EN/ES] Antonio Onorati (Italy) | antonio.onorati48(a)gmail.com | | 39.340.821.9456 [FR] Alimata Traore (Mali) | alimaatou(a)yahoo.fr | 223.7603.0767

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[Info EN] La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | May 2018
by La Via Campesina 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | May 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] DECLARATION OF GÜIRA DE MELENA Joined together in this First Global Encounter of Agroecology Schools and Formation Processes of La Via Campesina, we affirm based on the broad diversity of our peasant agricultures, that we are the peoples who produce the food and other agricultural products needed by humanity. Read More [3] FEATURED ARTICLES FROM MAY 2018 LA VIA CAMPESINA SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AFRICA TO STRENGTHEN ADVOCACY FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE IN THE REGION! African smallholder farmers constitute over 80% of all farms, producing over 70% of the food consumed on the continent, relying on farmer saved traditional seeds and traditional farming practises informed by century old indigenous knowledge systems. Read More [4] FIGHT, BUILD A PEOPLE'S AGRARIAN REFORM! LETTER FROM THE MST TO THE BRAZILIAN PEOPLE This moment calls for unity in action among progressive forces and an effort to build a People's Project for Brazil capable of challenging the country's structural problems, fighting extreme poverty and unemployment; bringing development back; facing the issue of housing and urban mobility in the cities; guaranteeing quality public health care and education; carrying out agrarian reform in the countryside; protecting and stopping the privatization of common natural goods; and restoring national sovereignty. Read More [5] LA VIA CAMPESINA STRONGLY DENOUNCES THE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY COMMITTED BY THE STATE OF ISRAEL ON PALESTINIAN PEOPLE La Via Campesina strongly condemns the continuous killings, usurpation, land grabbing, looting of natural resources and the policy of apartheid led by the criminal state of Israel against the Palestinian people Read More [6] THE FUTURE OF THE CAP: SMALL-SCALE FARMERS SPEAK OUT FROM THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT How can our current agricultural and food system respond to the present challenges it faces? In response to the event's opening question, ECVC panellists demonstrated that in terms of solving challenges posed by climate change, small-scale farming can make an excellent contribution by supporting unique agro-biodiversity as well as various wild animal and plant species. Read More [7] OPPRESSION OF PAKISTAN'S CARICATURED FEUDALISM British colonialists bestowed vast tracts of land mainly to the revenue collectors (zemindars) in order to raise land revenue. This grafted native Indians onto the British structure, insuring their loyalty to British authority. After partition this class, along with the comprador bourgeoisie, became Pakistan's hybrid ruling class.Farooq Tariq, General Secretary, Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee writes. Read [8] AFRICAN PEASANTS DEMAND CLIMATE JUSTICE TO REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS: "TIME OF REAL SOLUTIONS IS NOW!" Peasant farmers of La Via Campesina in Southern and Eastern Africa and allies resolved to send an open letter to the Ministerial Committee responsible for Food, Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment of their respective regional governmental bodies to demand climate justice and the adoption of peasant based solutions, such as Agroecology and Food Sovereignty. Read More [9] FEATURED PUBLICATIONS PEASANT AGROECOLOGY ACHIEVES CLIMATE JUSTICE - A PRIMER This primer is developed as part of the project Building Climate Justice Advocacy with small-scale farmers in Southern and Eastern Africa developed and implemented in partnership between Afrika Kontakt and La Via Campesina in Southern and Eastern Africa (LVC -SEAf), with input from allies. Download your copy here [10] _"PESTICIDES OUT!"_ EUROPEAN COORDINATION VIA CAMPESINA (ECVC) LAUNCHES A PEASANT AGROECOLOGY MANUAL Farmers and peasants are the victims of a system that relies on socially disastrous choices that seek to 'profit at any price'. These choices include encouraging an increase in production, producing ever-cheaper food, and imposing free trade and economic competition. How did we get here? What are the causes and effects of pesticide use? What are the alternatives? Download your copy here [11] FEATURED VIDEOS [12] The Fatality of Land Grabbing: Aggravating Climate Change and Undermining Peasant's Lives Watch Video [13] [14] Climate Change is not Gender Neutral Watch Video [15] 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]. [16] [17] Twitter [17] [18] Facebook [18] [19] Vimeo [19] To unsubscribe from the distribution list click here [2] For questions or comments, email LVCWEB(a)VIACAMPESINA.ORG WEBSITE: www.viacampesina.org [20] TV: www.tv.viacampesina.org [21] 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/declaration-of-guira-de-melena-first-global-enc… [4] https://viacampesina.org/en/la-via-campesina-southern-and-eastern-africa-bu… [5] https://viacampesina.org/en/fight-build-a-peoples-agrarian-reform-letter-fr… [6] https://viacampesina.org/en/la-via-campesina-strongly-denounces-the-crimes-… [7] https://viacampesina.org/en/the-future-of-the-cap-small-scale-farmers-speak… [8] https://viacampesina.org/en/oppression-of-pakistans-caricatured-feudalism/ [9] https://viacampesina.org/en/african-peasants-demand-climate-justice-to-regi… [10] https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/primer_engli… [11] https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ECVC_Out-Pes… [12] https://vimeo.com/262183014 [13] https://tv.viacampesina.org/The-Fatality-of-Land-Grabbing?lang=en [14] https://vimeo.com/262166333 [15] https://tv.viacampesina.org/Climate-Change-is-not-Gender?lang=en [16] https://viacampesina.org/en/donations/ [17] http://www.twitter.com/via_campesina [18] https://www.facebook.com/viacampesinaOFFICIAL/ [19] https://vimeo.com/viacampesina [20] http://www.viacampesina.org [21] http://www.tv.viacampesina.org

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[Info EN] Important Information for the subscribers of Via Campesina Mailing list
by La Via Campesina 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Dear Subscribers of Via Campesina's general mailing list, In the context of new data privacy rules that came into force in European Union on 25 May 2018, we wish to inform all our subscribers a few things: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in EU is an appreciable effort to check the misuse of internet users' personal online data. As a global movement that respects people's right to privacy and as a movement where several of its members are subjected to varied levels of surveillance and repression in their respective countries, La Via Campesina recognises the importance, significance and necessity of such a law. We want to assure you that your privacy is of utmost importance to us. The only data we hold of newsletter subscribers is your email address and your name (in full or in parts) if you provided this while signing up [1]. We do not store any other personal data of subscribers and have never shared the information that we do hold with third parties. We would love to continue to keep in touch and share the important struggles and victories of the world's largest peasant movement with you. However, if you wish to stop receiving our updates, you are absolutely free to do so. You can do so by scrolling to the bottom of this page [1] and using the 'unsubcribe' option there. In accordance with the GDPR regulation, we delete all of your private data related to the La Via Campesina newsletter upon receipt of your un-subscribe request. Thank you. La Via Campesina Links: ------ [1] https://mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-en

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[Info EN] 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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[Info EN] 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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[Info EN] 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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[Info EN] 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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[Info EN] 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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