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LVC Newsletter| Peasant Struggles | September - October 2023
by La Via Campesina 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

Highlights from www.viacampesina.org [1] EDITION: SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2023 SUBSCRIBE [2] La Via Campesina's 'PEASANT STRUGGLES' brings to you a monthly synthesis of articles and videos from our website and multimedia library. Read, share and help us globalize the struggle! Faced with global crises, we demand concrete actions from governments to ensure Food Sovereignty for our Peoples and our Peasant Rights This 16th of October, the International Day of Struggle for People's Food Sovereignty, La Via Campesina, once again takes to the streets, flood social media platforms, and occupy public squares and spaces. Our aim is to hold those responsible for the severe food crisis humanity is facing accountable. Our struggle for peoples' sovereignty over their food and our efforts to confront those who deprive them of it remains a top priority for La Via Campesina. READ MORE [3] Gaza - Defending the Rights and Dignity Amidst Escalating Military Aggression and Conflict We are deeply shocked and outraged by the escalation of crimes against humanity committed by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. As a global peasant movement, we firmly reject violence against civilians and military conflict to resolve disputes. Read more [4] Victory! UN Human Rights Council Adopts Resolution to Advance Peasants' Rights Worldwide In its 54th session, an overwhelming majority of member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council took a historic step by voting in favor of a resolution aimed at further implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP). Read more [5] Urgent Israel deprives Gaza of water, manufactures catastrophe The deprivation of water is not just a violation of basic human rights but also a testament to the ongoing oppression faced by the Palestinian people. Gaza main freshwater source cannot meet daily demands because of high salinity and pollution most of water is undrinkable. Read more [6] UAWC condemns Israel's use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza OCHA reports that the assaults have disrupted the UNRWA food operation, impacting at least 112,759 families. The poultry and livestock sectors are on the brink of collapse due to the severe shortage of fodder, endangering the livelihoods of more than 1,000 herders and affecting over 10,000 producers. Read more [7] Declaration of Solidarity: Stop Neocolonialism! No to Foreign Interventions in Haiti On October 2, 2023, during the United Nations Security Council meeting in New York, the United States and Ecuador succeeded in passing a resolution authorizing the deployment of a multinational force in Haiti. Read more [8] CETIM and LVC Express Concern Over Foreign Intervention in Haiti and Demand Human Rights Protection On the 2nd of October 2023, the UN Security Council, approved the deployment of an international security force to supposedly fight gang violence and restore security. Read more [9] Karnataka, India: Farmers hold a forum on trade, climate and seed issues The participants were of the opinion that a fair remunerative price is central to finding a solution to the ongoing farm crisis in the country. Read more [10] 6th International Women's Assembly of La Via Campesina: Official Poster is now available! The International Women's Assemblies have been a very important collective and strategic construction in these 30 years of La Via Campesina. The 6th International Women's Assembly will be held on the 2nd of December, ... Read more [11] An opportunity for rural struggles: UNDROP follow-up mechanism before the Human Rights Council Time has come for the implementation of UNDROP to be tackled at the international level. It is in this context that La Via Campesina (LVC) and its allies, advocate for the creation of an international follow-up mechanisms on peasants' rights, in the form of a UN Special procedure. Read more [12] Press Release: La Via Campesina is determined to build an alternative framework for global trade in agriculture - written by the peasants, for the people La Via Campesina commemorates the International Day of Action Against the WTO and Free Trade agreements and announces that the endeavor to construct an alternative trade framework ... Read more [13] Spain: We mobilize to reject industrial agriculture and agribusiness promoted by the Meeting of EU Ministers of Agriculture From 31 August to 3 September 2023, 150 activists from various organisations from different parts of Spain gathered in Hornachuelos (Córdoba) in a camp dedicated to agroecology and food sovereignty, to ratify the need to break with the agro-industrial food model and system. Read more [14] South Korea : 1,000+ Peasant Women Demand Yoon Seok-yeol's Resignation at First Post-COVID Conference Over 1,000 peasant women gathered for the '2023 National Peasant Women's Conference' organized by the Korean Women Peasants Association, wearing white attire, urging the resignation of the Yoon Seok-yeol government, which implements policies harmful to agriculture and farmers. Read more [15] France: Victory in Court! 15 Mega-Basin Projects Cancelled! The Confédération Paysanne welcomes the decision of the Administrative Court of Poitiers, which ruled on two appeals and canceled the project to create 15 mega-basins: nine planned in the Aume-Couture basin and six in the Pallu sub-basin. Read more [16] Brazil: The failure of Parliamentary Inquiry Commission against the Landless Workers Movement In Brazil, the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission against the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) has concluded its work and did not bring forward any real problems. Read more [17] La Via Campesina and CETIM denounce the sanctions against Niger at the UN Human Rights Council During the 54th session of the HRC, a biennial "Panel discussion on unilateral coercive measures and human rights" was held in Geneva. LVC member denounced the sanctions against Niger and its people ... Read more [18] Mayotte water crisis: MODEF calls on France to take action Mayotte is experiencing a severe water crisis as water sources run dry and the distribution network in a poor state requiring urgent attention. Rains to replenish the sources not expected until November. Water cuts are common. In the face of this crisis MODEF has sent an urgent appeal to the French government to take immediate action to address this looming humanitarian, health, economic and food crisis. Read more [19] La Via Campesina Stands with Morocco in the Wake of Catastrophic Earthquake The numbers speak of the tragedy - over 2497 of our comrades have passed on, and 3,000 more are injured, many critically. La Via Campesina extends its heartfelt solidarity to our brothers and sisters in Morocco during these testing times. Read more [20] Solidarity with the Libyan People and their Peasants in the aftermath of Storm Daniel On September 10, 2023, the city of Derna in Libya, along with neighboring villages and towns, witnessed the devastating impact of Storm Daniel. This unprecedented natural disaster inflicted profound destruction on Libya, leaving a trail of unprecedented devastation in its wake. Read more [21] FOR MORE ARTICLES FROM SEPTEMBER 2023 CLICK HERE [22] FOR MORE ARTICLES FROM OCTOBER 2023 CLICK HERE [23] FEATURED VIDEOS OF THE MONTH [24] 8th International Conference: Official Song is out! "Back to the Countryside" [25] We're thrilled to unveil our official song for the 8th International Conference, igniting passion and unity in our incredible peasant movement. The global peasant movement La Vía Campesina convenes this conference in Bogotá, Colombia, from 1 to 8 December 2023, under the slogan "Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a future for humanity". Lyrics of the song available in English, French Spanish, and Arabic FOR MORE VIDEOS [26] [27] 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 on the Donate button on our home page [28] and following the link to our PayPal account. 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Press Release for the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty against Transnational Corporations – October 16, 2023
by La Via Campesina 16 Oct '23

16 Oct '23

FACED WITH GLOBAL CRISES, WE DEMAND CONCRETE ACTIONS FROM GOVERNMENTS TO ENSURE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY FOR OUR PEOPLES AND OUR PEASANT RIGHTS _Press Release for the International Day of Action for Peoples' Food Sovereignty against Transnational Corporations - October 16, 2023_ ------------------------- On the 16th of October, as we commemorate the International Day of Struggle for People's Food Sovereignty, we, La Via Campesina, the global movement of peasants and rural communities, once again take to the streets, flood social media platforms, and occupy public squares and spaces [1]. Our aim is to hold those responsible for the severe food crisis humanity is facing accountable. In today's world, wars continue to rage destructively. A clear example is Israel's recent genocidal strategy, which for 10 days has completely denied 2.5 million Palestinians access to essential resources such as food, water and electricity, [2] actions that undeniably constitute war crimes. Our struggle for peoples' sovereignty over their food and our efforts to confront those who deprive them of it remains a top priority for La Via Campesina. We denounce the World Food Forum organized by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO) this week in Rome and the ongoing transnational corporations takeover of FAO. We are highly concerned about the World Food Forum, which is especially encouraging the action of global youth, linking them to new technologies and innovation in the food systems promoted by agribusiness. We do not need a reinvention of corporate power to solve world's hunger, we need instead our governments to have autonomy to decide about their food. We need our peasant rights to be respected and promoted. It is we, the peasants, who are guaranteeing food for our peoples on a daily basis, and yet we are also among the populations most affected by these crises. Our lands, our water and our seeds continue to be grabbed and owned by agribusiness transnationals. The climate crisis, exacerbated by extractivism, is displacing millions of us and our families, and hunger and malnutrition continue to increase globally. Our peasant rights to a dignified life and social justice continue to be violated. Our lives are at constant risk. The call of the global peasant movement remains to return to the land, to continue our ancestral legacy of healthy peasant production with agroecological proposals and equitable participation. We aim to integrate new generations, diversities, and alliances in our territories. This call for action, also want to highlight the process that social movements have initiated towards building a Nyeleni Global Forum for Food Sovereignty in 2025 [3]. At this point, we are engaged in a collective effort to broaden and strengthen the struggle for food sovereignty, by forming alliances with climate justice movements, labor unions, feminist groups, and environmental organizations to foster shared proposals for systemic change. Our upcoming 8th International Conference [4] to be held in Colombia from December 1st to 8th will also be a decisive space for convergence and mobilization. This October, we will continue to negotiate for a binding treaty to effectively challenge transnational corporate power and impunity. Together with civil society, we are in a campaign to end the human-rights violations that transnational corporations continue to do with impunity on our lands and territories. From 23 to 27 of 2023, a peasant delegation will participate in the 9th Session of the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group (OEIGWG), charged with elaborating a UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights (OEIGWG). Legal progress at the international level would allow us to take transnational agribusiness corporations to court whenever they violate our rights, just as they do with our States when they fail to comply with their imposed norms. A new achievement: UNDROP now has a Special Procedure at the United Nations Our current struggle for Food Sovereignty is making great progress in the international legal framework. Since the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas - UNDROP, we have not stopped mobilizing for its implementation at global, national, regional and local levels. When COVID restrictions were lifted worldwide allowing a return to normal life, LVC and our allies seized the moment to increase pressure for the creation of a Special Procedure (specifically a UN Working Group) on UNDROP at the UN Human Rights Council before the end of 2023. And we have succeeded. The UN Working Group on UNDROP, adopted in a UN Human Rights Council resolution this October 11, will be responsible for monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the UNDROP, and for providing support and technical assistance to countries to help them better implement the Declaration. This UN Working Group will be very useful to strengthen the promotion and protection of the rights of food producers around the globe. There is no doubt that humanity can use this mechanism to tackle the global crises we face, especially in rural areas. This is a huge victory in our fight for Food Sovereignty. Urgent actions to safeguarding Food Sovereignty and Human Rights: * Immediate restoration of essential resources: We demand that Israel immediately restore access to essential resources, including food, water, and electricity, to the 2.5 million Palestinians in Gaza. The denial of these basic necessities constitutes a violation of international law and human rights. This request is also extended to all peoples whose Food Sovereignty is being violated by the actions of other States as a result of wars and conflicts like Haiti, Cuba, Niger, among others. * Binding Treaty Against Corporate Impunity: We call for the swift finalization and adoption of a legally-binding treaty that holds transnational corporations accountable for human rights violations. Transnational agribusiness corporations must be held legally responsible whenever they infringe upon our rights. * Full Implementation and Monitoring of UNDROP: We urge the international community to actively support and monitor the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP). The newly established UN Working Group on UNDROP should be empowered to ensure that the rights of food producers globally are promoted, protected, and upheld. Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a future for humanity For press requests and interviews please contact us at press(a)viacampesina.org. Find out about more actions taking place around the world. HERE [1] Links: ------ [1] https://padlet.com/lvcweb/16oct23-solidarity-actions-for-food-sovereignty-u… [2] https://viacampesina.org/en/gaza-defending-the-rights-and-dignity-amidst-es… [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6So3ISZCCo [4] https://viacampesina.org/en/8th-international-conference-of-la-via-campesin…

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Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a future for humanity | Call to Action #16Oct2023
by La Via Campesina 26 Sep '23

26 Sep '23

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a future for humanity | Call to Action #16Oct2023 25 September 2023 Food Sovereignty <https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/food-sovereignty-and-t…>, Transnational Companies and Agribusiness <https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-against/transnational-comp…> * This article is available in * Español <https://viacampesina.org/es/frente-a-las-crisis-globales-construimos-sobera…> * Français <https://viacampesina.org/fr/face-aux-crises-globales-construisons-la-souver…> *Global Call to Action for the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty against Transnational Corporations* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This October 16, 2023, we, the peasants of the world, once again call to commemorate the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty against Transnational Corporations. On this day, the global movement for Food Sovereignty denounces the control of food systems in the hands of agribusiness transnationals, a global corporate network that is intensifying the hunger of millions of people in the world, as well as the massification of malnutrition as a chronic disease of the new generations. It is unacceptable that more and more people in the world are going hungry and that food insecurity is intensifying, affecting one third of the world’s population. The global crises and the great migratory displacements that affect millions of people and their peoples are concentrated in a scenario of climate and environmental crisis that affects the whole of humanity. We are experiencing an unprecedented food crisis. Our agricultural production, seeds, land, and territories are being monopolized; our peasant rights to income and a dignified life, to protest, and to the autonomy of our peoples are being violated. We are facing an unprecedented food crisis intertwined with the climate crisis, wars, corruption, media control, institutional racism, and neo-fascism. At the same time, we, the peasants, continue to be criminalized, displaced, and see our livelihoods and subsistence taken away. We mobilize in the face of global crises. This year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is hosting the World Food Forum from October 16-20, and we are concerned that large corporations continue to capture this space for their own interests. *DOWNLOAD THE COMMUNICATIONS KIT <https://comms.viacampesina.org/s/dADkzzzgEfBYy5q>* For this reason, together with our allies, on October 16, we will mobilize once again to denounce the false solutions that corporate power, in complicity with many governments, is promoting and imposing to apparently solve these crises. Once more, we say no to agribusiness! No more false solutions! Without Food Sovereignty, we will not be able to ensure a future for humanity! This year, we also celebrate 27 years of our organized struggle for Food Sovereignty, a struggle that has now diversified and taken shape from the local level to form a powerful global movement. *We will carry all the experiences and reflections from this journey to our 8th International Conference <https://viacampesina.org/en/tag/8-conference-lvc/>*, to be held in December in Bogota, Colombia. During the conference, we will dedicate an important moment to discuss our progress and the lessons learned over these nearly three decades of mobilizations. We face the enormous challenge of*advancing the implementation of UNDROP, building an alternative global trade framework* that puts an end to the voracity of Free Trade Agreements and the WTO, and consolidating an effective binding treaty against transnational corporations to protect the collective and individual labor agreements of rural workers.**Additionally, we aim to safeguard the territorial, environmental, community, production, and basic services rights of communities in areas affected by transnationals. Furthermore, we must continue to promote *Peasant Agroecology and Popular Peasant Feminism *as crucial political tools within our movement for our peoples. We are peasants, women, youth, rural diversities, indigenous peoples, fisherfolk, migrants, rural workers, and a diverse group of individuals who want Food Sovereignty to be recognized as a fundamental right, ensuring peace and social justice for our communities. Join our actions happening all over the world: * Organize with your neighborhood, community, or local organization to showcase the immense value and legacy of the struggle for Food Sovereignty. * Arrange events and participate in agroecological fairs where the work of local peasants is celebrated, and their challenges are discussed. * Additionally, join our virtual action this #16Oct23 by capturing and sending a photo of your action along with our slogan, “Facing global crises, we build Food Sovereignty to secure a future for humanity.” Tag us on social media or send your photos and/or videos to *communications(a)viacampesina.org* * Personalize the official poster and adapt it to your local language. Download and share our communication kit, videos, and publications during this day of mobilizations. *Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a future for humanity!* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *DOWNLOAD THE COMMUNICATION KIT* <https://comms.viacampesina.org/s/dADkzzzgEfBYy5q> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/viacampesinaOFFICIAL> Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/via_campesina> Link <https://www.instagram.com/la_via_campesina_official/> Website <https://viacampesina.org/> To unsubscribe from the distribution list click here <https://mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-es> For questions or comments, email *lvcweb(a)viacampesina.org* <mailto:lvcweb@viacampesina.org?subject=Newsletter%20Comments%3A%20> *Website:* www.viacampesina.org *TV:* www.tv.viacampesina.org To subscribe to this newsletter - Click Here <https://mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-es>

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Press release : LVC will develop an alternative framework for global trade in agriculture
by La Via Campesina 11 Sep '23

11 Sep '23

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* *Press release : LVC will develop an alternative framework for global trade in agriculture* /La Via Campesina commemorates the International Day of Action Against the WTO and Free Trade agreements and announces that the endeavor to construct an alternative trade framework based on food sovereignty/ /and solidarity among peoples, will commence in 2023 during the 8th International Conference in Bogota, scheduled for this December. This year coincides with the 20-year anniversary of the tragic passing of Lee Kyung Hae, who sacrificed his life outside the Ministerial meeting site in Cancun, Mexico./ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *08 September 2023 | Bagnolet: *The World Trade Organization (WTO) has illustrated to the world how neoliberalism, privatization, deregulation, and a capitalist free-market economy can marginalize, exploit and dispossess the world’s most vulnerable communities – including peasants, indigenous populations, and rural and urban workers. Despite nearly three decades of existence, none of its promises have stood the test of time. Today, we inhabit a world plagued by severe inequality, poverty, patriarchy, hunger, violence, authoritarianism, chauvinism, and conflicts. To compound matters, a worsening climate crisis has led to unprecedented and catastrophic weather events that devastate our farms, forests, rivers, and oceans, gravely imperiling food sovereignty of our peoples. This is the grim legacy the WTO has bequeathed us in its nearly thirty-year tenure. Even the wealthiest countries and their corporations now acknowledge that the World Trade Organization teeters in a state of uncertainty. However, driven by their vested interests to safeguard their establishments and wealth, they employ various strategies to sustain neoliberalism – with or without the WTO. A few instances of these tactics include: secretive negotiations of bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements to ensure business as usual; the establishment of multi-stakeholder entities within the UN that deliberately sideline peasants and rural communities, while affording corporate lobbies unrestricted influence – masking their actions with talk of sustainability and promoting a dystopian vision of ‘farming without farmers’; substantial investments in marketing campaigns and biased research aimed at painting a rosy picture of a world where poverty, hunger, and inequality are purportedly disappearing. Yet, as peasants who toil relentlessly in the fields to feed the world, our lived experiences are immune to their paid propaganda. We witness the appropriation and violation of our soil, biodiversity, and seeds by those in power. We observe how speculative trading, orchestrated by asset management firms, drives up food prices. We perceive how pandemic or conflict-induced supply disruptions can dismantle their global food supply chains in mere days. Despite these challenges, agribusiness giants continue to amass massive profits and distribute hefty CEO bonuses, while many struggle to afford three meals a day. *The evidence is as palpable as the air we breathe – the global trade system is fractured.* Should we, the people, desire a positive transformation, superficial alterations or an imagined “reform” of the WTO will not suffice. The remedy lies in a complete overhaul and the construction of a new global trade framework. This framework must honor countries’ food sovereignty, respect biodiversity, and uphold the rights of peasants and other rural and urban workers. It should be underpinned by values of solidarity, cooperation, people-to-people exchange, and internationalism, with the ability to dismantle the economic, political, social, and cultural dominance of select global north countries. It must stand as an anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-patriarchal and pro-social justice, pro-feminist framework. *La Via Campesina is embarking on this endeavor in 2023,* coinciding with the 20-year commemoration of Lee Kyung Hae’s sacrifice. The peasants, small-scale food producers, wage and migrant workers and indigenous communities of La Via Campesina will draft this framework, leveraging our collective knowledge of agriculture and food trade to ensure no one goes hungry. This initiative serves as a tribute to Lee’s memory, as we strive to construct an alternative trade order for the world. In 2022, we appealed to global south nations for assistance in building this new framework, aiming for equitable and fair global trade founded on the principles of communitarianism and solidarity. We continue to implore governments worldwide to stand with us in this endeavor. *At the 8th International Conference of La Via Campesina in Bogota, Colombia*, peasants from over 80 nations will convene to collaboratively develop this framework. Just as we constructed the UN Declaration for the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas through years of patient negotiation and dedication, we will similarly construct this trade framework. This serves as our homage to Lee, whose life and struggle encapsulate the daily battles of peasants everywhere. *We are all Lee! A new trade framework is urgent and vital!* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */Note for the editors:/ * For media inquiries, please write to press(a)viacampesina.org *Also read:* La Via Campesina responds to the WTO’s purported plans to set up a ‘Civil Society Council’ <https://viacampesina.org/en/la-via-campesina-responds-to-the-wtos-purported…> All of LVC’s past communiqués related to this topic can be found here <https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-against/capitalism-and-fre…>. 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La Via Campesina| "Peasant Struggles | August 2023 "
by La Via Campesina 06 Sep '23

06 Sep '23

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* EDITION: SEPT 2023 SUBSCRIBE [1] La Via Campesina's 'PEASANT STRUGGLES' brings to you a monthly synthesis of articles and videos from our website and multimedia library. Read, share and help us globalize the struggle! [2] Call to Action: 10 September 2023 - International Day of Action Against the WTO and Free Trade Agreements ------------------------- It has been twenty years since the World Trade Organization's imperialist, neoliberal and neo-colonial free trade policies led to the sacrifice of one of our peasant leaders - Lee Kyung Hae - at the gates of the Ministerial meeting venue in Cancun, Mexico. READ MORE [3] Haiti Mission: Joint Solidarity Declaration with the Haitian peasantry [4] La Via Campesina affirms its support for the peasants of Niger and its rejection of sanctions and military intervention by ECOWAS [5] Newsletter: ECVC's work on rural workers and migration [6] 8th International Conference of La Via Campesina: Clear Solutions for Humanity's Crises! (Download the Communication Kit) [7] Take Cuba off the State Sponsors of Terrorism List and End the Blockade of Cuba! [8] France: The Confédération Paysanne expresses solidarity with peasants in Niger [9] Mega Water Basins: NFU expresses solidarity with Confédération Paysanne, writes to the French Ambassador [10] Haiti: Final declaration of the 50th congress of the Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP) [11] FOR MORE ARTICLES FROM AUGUST 2023 CLICK HERE [12] FEATURED VIDEOS OF THE MONTH [13] La Via Campesina delivers a fiery speech inside the European Parliament, calls out Free Trade Agreements, Colonialism and Unilateral Sanctions [14] La Via Campesina delivers a fiery speech inside the European Parliament, calls out Free Trade Agreements, Colonialism and Unilateral Sanctions FOR MORE VIDEOS [15] [16] 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 on the Donate button on our home page [17] and following the link to our PayPal account. [18] [19] Facebook [19] [20] Twitter [20] [21] Instagram [21] [22] Spotify [22] [15] Vimeo [15] To unsubscribe from the distribution list, questions or comments, write to viacampesina(a)viacampesina.org Website: www.viacampesina.org [23] TV: www.tv.viacampesina.org [24] To subscribe to this newsletter - Click Here [25] Links: ------ [1] http://ttps//mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-en [2] https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Website-Feat… [3] https://viacampesina.org/en/call-to-action-10-september-2023-international-… [4] https://viacampesina.org/en/haiti-mission-joint-solidarity-declaration-with… [5] https://viacampesina.org/en/la-via-campesina-affirms-its-support-for-the-pe… [6] https://viacampesina.org/en/newsletter-ecvcs-work-on-rural-workers-and-migr… [7] https://viacampesina.org/en/8th-international-conference-of-la-via-campesin… [8] https://viacampesina.org/en/take-cuba-off-the-state-sponsors-of-terrorism-l… [9] https://viacampesina.org/en/france-the-confederation-paysanne-expresses-sol… [10] https://viacampesina.org/en/mega-water-basins-nfu-expresses-solidarity-with… [11] https://viacampesina.org/en/haiti-final-declaration-of-the-50th-congress-of… [12] https://viacampesina.org/en/2023/08/ [13] https://vimeo.com/29244458 [14] https://vimeo.com/747999957 [15] https://vimeo.com/viacampesina [16] https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/la-via-campesina [17] http://www.viacampesina.org/ [18] https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=IK5Hgl6MlPxD… [19] http://www.facebook.com/ViaCampesinaOFFICIAL [20] http://www.twitter.com/via_campesina [21] http://www.instagram.com/la_via_campesina_official [22] https://open.spotify.com/show/5FYiTT1dNlt8HgUHVUR3pv [23] http://www.viacampesina.org [24] http://www.tv.viacampesina.org [25] https://mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-en

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Call to Action: 10 September 2023 – International Day of Action Against the WTO and Free Trade Agreements
by La Via Campesina 22 Aug '23

22 Aug '23

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Call to Action: 10 September 2023 – International Day of Action Against the WTO and Free Trade Agreements 21 August 2023 World Trade Organisation <https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-against/capitalism-and-fre…> * This article is available in * Español <https://viacampesina.org/es/llamado-a-la-accion-global-dia-internacional-de…> * Français <https://viacampesina.org/fr/appel-a-laction-10-septembre-2023-journee-inter…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 20 Years since Cancun: Lee Lives On! We Are All Lee, in this struggle against the WTO and Free Trade Agreements! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It has been twenty years since the World Trade Organization’s imperialist, neoliberal and neo-colonial free trade policies led to the sacrifice of one of our peasant leaders at the gates of the Ministerial meeting venue in Cancun, Mexico. Lee Kyung Hae, a small-scale farmer from Korea, took the drastic step of sacrificing himself to *protest against <https://viacampesina.org/en/take-agriculture-out-of-the-wto-farmer-lee-kyun…>* the dire situation that thousands of peasants found themselves in after their country embraced the WTO’s free trade policies. In his final moments, he wore a banner around his neck with the words */“WTO Kills Farmers.”/* Lee’s sacrifice brought to the spotlight the plight of all peasants everywhere; the hyper-globalization of the 80s and 90s had a devastating impact on rural communities worldwide, stripping them of their land, livelihoods, and local markets. Lee Kyung Hae gave his life to voice the concerns of millions of peasants like him, who saw their lives upended as their countries opened up under the banner of market reforms, only to be overwhelmed by fierce international competition from affluent nations flooding their markets with cheap imports, often produced in massive factories and large-scale industrial farms. The WTO spearheaded these efforts to expand and find new markets for transnational corporations and agribusinesses centered in the wealthy cities of the global north. Two decades have passed since that tragic day in Cancun, and things have only worsened for both people and the planet. The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), which forms the core of the WTO’s food and agriculture trade policies, continues to *wreak havoc* <https://viacampesina.org/en/freedom-from-hunger-poverty-debt-and-death-free…> on people’s lives. Over the past 30 years, La Via Campesina has consistently highlighted the negative and devastating effects of WTO policies on both people and the planet. Whenever the WTO convened its ministerial meetings to advance these harmful policies, La Via Campesina’s organized peasant groups took to the streets to expose its falsehoods and deceit. As the World Trade Organization subsequently entered a state of limbo, numerous regional and bilateral free trade agreements began to proliferate, with many of them resembling the highly detrimental Agreement on Agriculture. Thus, whether with or without the WTO, global trade remains entangled in these opaque agreements, frequently negotiated behind closed doors without public consultation or debates. During the last Ministerial meeting in Geneva in 2022, La Via Campesina declared that the time had come to dismantle the WTO, discard the Agreement on Agriculture, put an end to harmful free trade agreements and *establish a new trade framework for global agricultural trade based on principles of food sovereignty <https://viacampesina.org/en/geneva-end-wto-build-international-trade-based-…>, *solidarity, and internationalism. A new framework that respects and upholds the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP)! It called on World Trade Organization member states, particularly those from the Global South, to lead the charge in creating this framework and establishing it as the bedrock of global trade. The global food crisis, resulting in increasing global hunger, exacerbated by speculative commodity trading practices, pandemics, conflicts and wars, is glaring evidence of a flawed global food system that primarily benefits transnational agribusiness. Numerous reports have highlighted how, even in the face of growing global hunger, a handful of large agribusiness corporations continued to accumulate profits through speculative practices. *The Agreement on Agriculture serves as a pact to secure perpetual profits for agribusinesses <https://viacampesina.org/en/la-via-campesina-responds-to-the-wtos-purported…>*, disregarding the suffering of peasants, individuals, and the environment. For this reason, as we commemorate the International Day of Action against the WTO and Free Trade Agreements on September 10th, La Via Campesina will intensify this struggle for an alternative. We will lead the effort to construct this new framework through direct involvement of peasants and numerous other small-scale food producers. We will collaborate with our governments and civil society partners to generate political pressure in support of this new paradigm. *As members of La Via Campesina prepare for the 8th International Conference scheduled for December 2023 in Bogota <https://viacampesina.org/en/8th-international-conference-of-la-via-campesin…>, we call upon all our members to express solidarity with Lee Kyung Hae and his sacrifice. *We encourage our members to organize exhibitions, public discussions, protests, and to formulate ideas for an alternative global trade framework. During the 8th International Conference in Bogota, we will commemorate Lee with a mistica, celebrating his courage and defiance and honoring the endeavors and sacrifices of millions of peasants around the world who persist in nourishing the planet and feeding the people, despite mounting challenges. COMMUNICATION KIT: In the next few days, we will be releasing an official poster that can be adapted and used in your local and regional mobilizations and actions. *The official poster and other materials, will soon be available in this link. <https://comms.viacampesina.org/s/qnHLEC3XnT3TmLs> *Check back in a few days. For queries and press interviews, write topress(a)viacampesina.org <https://viacampesina.org/en/call-to-action-10-september-2023-international-…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Faced with Global Crises, We build Food Sovereignty for the Future of Humanity! We are all Lee! WTO Kills Farmers! A New Trade Framework is Urgent and Vital!* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /#WeAreAllLEE #EndWTO #8ConfLVC #NewTradeFrameworkNOW/ Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/viacampesinaOFFICIAL> Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/via_campesina> Link <https://www.instagram.com/la_via_campesina_official/> Website <https://viacampesina.org/> To unsubscribe from the distribution list click here <https://mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-es> For questions or comments, email *lvcweb(a)viacampesina.org* <mailto:lvcweb@viacampesina.org?subject=Newsletter%20Comments%3A%20> *Website:* www.viacampesina.org *TV:* www.tv.viacampesina.org To subscribe to this newsletter - Click Here <https://mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-es>

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Download the Communication Kit: 8th International Conference of La Via Campesina
by La Via Campesina 17 Aug '23

17 Aug '23

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* 8th International Conference of La Via Campesina The global peasant movement La Vía Campesina is convening its 8th International Conference in Bogotá, Colombia, from 1 to 8 December 2023, under the slogan "Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a future for humanity". Download the Communication Kit [1] The International Conferences serve as the most important collective decision-making, analysis, evaluation and planning space for the 182 national organisations articulated by regions around the world, representing the landless, women, rural workers, migrants, fishermen, pastoralists, indigenous peoples and diversities in 82 countries in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia, at national, regional and continental levels. During these international conferences, attended by almost 500 delegates from 10 different regions, different issues affecting the diversity of rural areas are discussed and analysed as a whole. It is here that La Via Campesina defines, updates and refines its strategic lines of action, as well as examining and ratifying new member organisations, discussing internal functioning and launching new campaigns. In the 30 years that La Vía Campesina has been organising, seven international conferences have taken place. The first was held in Mons, Belgium, in 1993, where for the first time the strength and solidarity of peasant struggles from the global North and South were successfully united, proposing food sovereignty as a concrete defence of peasant agriculture against agribusiness. During the 1996 conference in Mexico, the movement gave a strong response against free trade agreements and the World Trade Organisation. At the conference in India in 2000, the role and political participation of women was realised when the first International Women's Assembly was celebrated, sowing the seeds of peasant and popular feminism. At the 2004 conference in Brazil, the African continent joined La Via Campesina, organising itself into two regions. Africa brought a diversity of struggles and forms of organisation, strengthening the struggle for environmental justice and against extractivism, colonialism and racism. At the Mozambique conference in 2008, we launched the International Campaign - 'Stop Violence Against Women' - as a pedagogical tool within our organisations and also to dialogue with societies in our struggle against patriarchy and all forms of violence. This campaign has been adopted by the whole movement. In 2013, in Indonesia, the conference highlighted the broad participation of youth in different tasks and structures within the movement. In 2017, in Derio, for the first time, a group of 50 delegates from our member organisations met alongside the conference to discuss sexual and gender diversity. In 2023, we will officially launch our tenth region, the Arab and North African Region (ARNA), bringing together different organisations from Palestine, Morocco and Tunisia to highlight the struggles of Arab peoples resisting contexts of war and hunger. As part of the 8th International Conference, the V Youth Assembly and the VI International Women's Assembly will be held. These are important spaces for debate, exchange, training and for the construction of common strategies of resistance. The role of women and youth has been vital for a movement with 30 years of history, it has strengthened it and has brought important challenges as well. La Via Campesina is today a key movement in the struggle for public policies that recognize peasants as subjects of rights and the importance of Food Sovereignty, agrarian reform, peasant agroecological production, peasant seed systems and peasant and popular feminism. These pillars are in line with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), recognised in 2018, which is a major achievement resulting from the struggles and organisation of the peasant movement. After the pandemic, La Via Campesina reaffirms food sovereignty as the only real alternative to hunger, wars, climate and health crises.T oday more than ever we emphasize the importance of recognizing the peasantry and all its diversity as a subject of rights and transformations. Their role is crucial in societies striving for social and climate justice in their territories, providing healthy and accessible food for the working class. We believe that it is possible to live with dignity in rural areas by cultivating humanistic values, healing and caring for the land, and fighting to put life before profit. COMMUNICATION KIT: Our conference is a living space, from communication and training, we seek to create dialogues, meetings, debates and build collective proposals. Help us to make visible the national, regional and international process to reach our Conference in Bogota, Colombia. Download the Communication Kit [1]. Use these materials with your organizations, in assemblies, mobilizations, trainings, with our militants and allies. We encourage you to translate the official poster into your local language, use our blank version to adapt it! To unsubscribe from the distribution list, questions or comments, write to viacampesina(a)viacampesina.org Website: www.viacampesina.org TV: www.tv.viacampesina.org To subscribe to this newsletter - Click Here [2] Links: ------ [1] https://comms.viacampesina.org/s/XNANmRcfMsQk5Zw [2] https://mail.viacampesina.org/lists/listinfo/Via-info-en

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

28 Jul '23

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

04 Jul '23

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

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Urgent: La Via Campesina and ECVC express their dismay at the authoritarian drift in France
by La Via Campesina 29 Jun '23

29 Jun '23

LA VIA CAMPESINA AND ECVC EXPRESS THEIR DISMAY AT THE AUTHORITARIAN DRIFT IN FRANCE Bagnolet | 28 June 2023: Instead of finding real answers to the environmental, social and democratic crises, the French government is choosing to imprison activists and ban movements critical of the extractivist agro-industrial model. On 21 June, the French government announced the dissolution of the movement Les Soulèvements de la Terre, which campaigns against land and water grabbing and the destruction of ecosystems. That same week, dozens of activists were arrested by the anti-terrorist police, on the pretext that they had taken part in demonstrations against mega-basins, extractivist industries or agro-industry and its pollution. On June 28th, two peasant trade unionists from the _Confédération Paysanne_, Nicolas Girod and Benoît Jaunet, along with Julien LeGuet, spokesperson for the collective _Bassines non merci_, were arrested by the police for their involvement in organizing these collective gatherings as representatives of their respective organizations. They were released later in the day but received court summonses for the month of September. Such acts of repression against legitimate protests are unacceptable and unjust, creating a negative precedent and seeking to intimidate all defenders of fundamental rights. In this context it seems that the FNSEA, a French farmers' union, has also been calling for the dissolution of La Confédération Paysanne. We, La Via Campesina and European Coordination Via Campesina, stand together with our member organisation in France, La Confédération Paysanne. We firmly reject these threats and will act decisively in Europe and around the world to ensure that La Confédération Paysanne and its members can continue to defend peasant agriculture and its workers. We express our support for Les Soulèvements de la Terre (the Uprisings of the Earth ). These tens of thousands of young people mobilising to ensure land and water are shared fairly, which is an expression of the acute sense of responsibility that young people have in the face of social inequalities and the destruction of ecosystems. We call on the French Government to cease its violations of human rights, and in particular of the rights recognised in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other Rural Workers (UNDROP), such as freedom of thought, opinion and expression, freedom of association and the right to participation. We call on our member organisations and allied organisations to mobilise in support of the Confédération Paysanne and social movements in France, in particular by sending letters to French embassies and the French government and by organising rallies in front of French embassies. ------------------------- For interview requests and queries, contact: Morgan Ody , ECVC CC Member, LVC General Coordinator, Member of La Confédéraation Paysanne (FR, EN, ES) ECVC/LVC press offices: press(a)eurovia.org , press(a)viacampesina.org ------------------------- Sign petition Click here [1] Links: ------ [1] https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/i/kOOHb1po

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