Nyeleni - Soberania Alimentaria

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Published on Saturday, 01 March 2008 23:59

Trailer de 4 documentales de ETB, la televisión vasca (Rutas de Solidaridad) sobre la soberanía alimentaria y el Foro de Nyeleni, Febrero 2007 - Mali

Production: Eider Plaza, Gurutze Lizarral
Genere: Video, 5:26 min
Date of production: August 2007
Language: Español + (English, Français)

Las mujeres en La Vía Campesina: Campesinas Construyendo Futuros

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Published on Saturday, 01 March 2008 23:52

Production: Irene y Veronica Leon/La Via Campesina
Genre: Video, 17 min
Date of production: 2006
Language: Español

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India: Massive farmers protest against pro-business agricutural policies

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Published on Saturday, 01 March 2008 02:36

Press release from the Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers' Movements

27th February 2008 (New Delhi). Today more than 50,000 farmers from Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajsthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttranchal held a massive protest in front of the Parliament in New Delhi against the step motherly treatment to agriculture by the Government of India. Farmers are very agitated over the pro-corporate policies of the government which has led to massive distress in agriculture. The large scale farmers' suicide and massive displacement from rural areas is a clear manifestation of this severe crisis.

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Repression of a farmers march in Mozambique

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Published on Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:36

Today the 24th at 9am in the District seat of Manhiça [in the province of Maputo], around 300 farmers, members of the Farmers Unions of the districts of Manhiça and Marracuene met to deliver a letter to the District Administrator, in which they demanded better implementation of the Land Law, and to denounce the violation of the legitimate rights that farmers have over the land, as well as abusive prices that commercialization imposes on farmers.

In a peaceful manner, and with slogans like "The Land is our Wealth," "Let's value our agricultural production," "Supporting production: this is how to defend Land," "Farmers united, we will always prevail," "For the correct implementation of the Land Law," the march started at the headquarters of the Manhiça District union to the District Administration. Twenty minutes after the march started, a police barrier formed of approximately 10 uniformed police armed with pistols and rifles interrupted the march claiming that it was not authorized.

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