Open call to join the Climate Space at the World Social Forum in Tunisia
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- Published on Tuesday, 12 February 2013 12:17
CLIMATE SPACE : RETHINKING STRATEGIES TO FIGHT FOR OUR FUTURE
The 2013 World Social Forum will be held this March 26-30 in Tunisia, where only two years ago, a revolution began and resulted into a historic change that created a ripple effect on the region. Now, Tunisia is an inspiration to movements both old and new, across the globe.
It is with this inspiration, from the wave of changes and the rise of new movements with exciting new strategies and tactics that the idea of the Climate Space was born. The Climate Space will be a fixed space inside the World Social Forum 2013 in Tunisia to discuss the causes, impacts, struggles, alternatives and strategies to address climate change. It will be a venue with various workshops, debates and strategy sessions.
Taiwan, Farmers call on public to join protest in Taipei
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- Published on Saturday, 02 February 2013 06:15
(Taipei, 31st of January 2013). Farming activists yesterday protested against the government’s plan to allow more imports of agricultural products from abroad — especially from China — and called on the public to join a rally in front of the Presidential Office on Sunday.
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Europe : The EFSA finally decides in favour of beekeepers and consumers
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- Published on Saturday, 02 February 2013 05:49
Press release of European Coordination Via Campesina
(Brussels - 31 January 2013). In answer to a request of the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has just published an opinion on the evaluation of the risks posed to bees and other pollinators by the use of insecticides of the neonicotinoid family.*
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Brazil,landless leader violently murdered in Rio de Janeiro
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- Published on Thursday, 31 January 2013 11:29
(2013 Radio Mundo Real) Download: MP3
Cícero Guedes, rural worker and activist of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (Via Campesina) of Brazil, was murdered by gunmen on Friday, January 25 near the Cambahyba sugar-cane field, in Rio de Janeiro state, while riding his bicycle.
According to the official announcement of his murder in MST’s website, Cicero was a sugarcane worker in Alagoas and was part of the Brava Gente settlement. He was struggling in favor of the agrarian reform as coordinator of the occupation in the Cambahyba sugar cane field, a complex of seven farms covering 3,500 hectares.
The Brazilian government declared this an unproductive estate in July 2012, but in addition its history is linked to the military dictatorship in that country, since the bodies of political prisoners were burned in that field, said leader Marcelo Durao to Real World Radio.
