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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
At present we are informing you that our compañero Rafael Alegría, peasant leader of Honduras and member of the International Coordinating Committee of the Via Campesina is receiving threats from landholders and members of the national police after a bloody confrontation in the Struggle for the Land, between the Grupo Campesino Guadalupe CARNEY and the Osorto Family, occurred
on Sunday, August 3 of this year, in the community Silin, Trujillo, Colón, where 11 people died, and two were wounded.
As result of the the above, Mr. Henry Osorto, commissioner of the national police and directly involved in the agrarian conflict, has declared before various communication outlets that our compañero Rafael Alegría and other peasant leaders are those responsible for this tragedy, accusing them of promoting the actions carried out by the peasants to recover the land and in addition qualified them as terrorists, guerillas, exploiters of peasants, revolutionary agitators, and who live at the cost of the peasants. |
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
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Release of Via Campesina on Collapse of WTO Negotiation, July 2008 Last collapse of the WTO negotiations avoids deepening of the food crisis and creates space for other policies that protect and support food production.
Rural workers, peasants and family farmers all over the world are welcoming the collapse of negotiations. It is a victory for those who want to protect the livelihoods of 3 billions peasants all over the world and to find solutions to the current food crisis. For La Via Campesina this collapse is a victory in the long struggle against WTO.
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
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Gran Canaria, July 25th 2008 Since April 2008, the Korean people have continuously protested against the US beef imports which are a precondition for the US ratification of the controversial US-Korea FTA. This relates to serious concerns about the safety of US beef. The Korean government has changed its regulations to allow 30 month old beef with bones to enter the Korean market and the people have clearly shown their disapproval of this. Many Korean activists have been arrested, put into prison and searched by the police because of their protests. |
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
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Action in Jakarta
 Jakarta, July, 21, 2008—Responding to the WTO mini-ministerial meeting, we are from Gerak Lawan, a broad coalition of Indonesian people's movements. We feel it is pertinent to alert the Government of Indonesia (GOI) and the people to the major issues at stake if you agree to the proposals for agriculture and nonagricultural market access (NAMA) and services that are on the table for the Doha Round in Geneva on July, 21-26.
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
La Via Campesina release regarding the WTO bilateral and mini Ministerial Meeting
WTO pushes for more trade liberalisation to solve food crisis: more fuel on the fire!
About 40 hand-selected trade ministers invited to Geneva do not have any mandate to decide on the future of millions of people. La Via Campesina demands an end to the WTO negotiations! |
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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Peter Rosset
Around the world it seems more and more that the time has come for La Via Campesina ( http://www.viacampesina.org). The global alliance of peasant and family farm organizations has spent the past decade perfecting an alternative proposal for how to structure a country's food system, called Food Sovereignty. It was clear at the World Forum on Food Sovereignty held last year in Mali, that this proposal has been gaining ground with other social movements, including those of indigenous peoples, women, consumers, environmentalists, some trade unions, and others. Though when it comes to governments and international agencies, it had until recently been met with mostly deaf ears. But now things have changed. The global crisis of rising food prices, which has already led to food riots in diverse parts of Asia, Africa and the Americas, is making everybody sit up and take note of this issue. |
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
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14th July,2008-Bangalore
 Farmers, Rural Women of Karnataka in solidarity with various farmers organizations of India, resolve that the latest drafts on Agriculture and Non Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) that were released on the 10th of July, 2008 in Geneva, are the final nails on the coffin of the food security and sovereignty of the nation. Both the drafts are an orchestrated attempt to open up the Indian markets for highly subsidized cheaper imports. Importing food is importing unemployment and poverty that will destroy livelihoods and the country's food self-sufficiency. |
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