Governor Requiao sings decree to expropriate site from Syngenta!

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Published on Tuesday, 28 November 2006 21:56

A truly historic moment is upon us: On November 9 Roberto Requi"o, Governor of the State of Paran·, signed a decree to expropriate the test site of the Syngenta corporation in Brazil, located in Santa Tereza do Oeste, for the public interest! This decision is unprecedented in Brazil and Latin America (indeed, possibly the world), as never before has any state or federal government in the region decided to expropriate land from a major multinational agribusiness corporation.  This is a major victory in the global struggle against the hegemony of agribusiness.

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United in the Vía Campesina

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Published on Tuesday, 28 November 2006 21:43

"I think that what really unites us is a fundamental commitment to humanism because the antithesis of this is individualism and materialism.... The common problems of land, production, technology, markets, ideological formation, training, poverty - all of these we have in common. But what also unites us are great aspirations. We are all convinced that the current structures of economic, political, and social power are unjust and exclusionary. What unites us is a spirit of transformation and struggle to change these structures all over the world. We aspire to a better world, a more just world, a more humane world, a world where real equality and social justice exist. These aspirations and solidarity in rural struggles keep us united in the Vía Campesina."

- RAFAEL ALEGRIA, FORMER OPERATIONAL SECRETARIAT OF THE VÍA CAMPESINA 

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Environmental Health Crisis in Punjab , Who cares?

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Published on Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:51

Meet Dharampreet, he is only six years old, a student of second class in village Wan of district Ferozepur. He is as innocent child like other children of his age, but one thing is special he has – lot of grey hairs. This is pre-mature aging in very childhood it self. But, he is not alone in this agony; about dozen children of his age to twelve are suffering from pre-mature aging problem.

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Reject the Economic Partnership Agreement EU-ACP!

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Published on Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:29

The member organizations of Via Campesina in Africa, in Europe and in the Caribbean  consider that the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP) are a new threat for the peasants and small farmers in the four regions. We ask a definitive stop in the negotiations and the opening of a period of debate and analyses on the impacts of free-trade on our national agricultures. Alternatives based on the right to food sovereignty exist.

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