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Monday, 27 April 2009 |
In 1996, the International Peasant's Movement, La Via Campesina, declared April 17th the International Day of Peasant's Struggle. They chose this date to remember the 19 landless peasants of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - the Landless Workers Movement, who Brazilian police killed as they tried to access land. We express our solidarity with peasants across the world and would like to reflect on the experience of Timor-Leste where most people are peasant farmers.
Colonialism and occupation brought deforestation, soil damage, forceful removal of people from their land, propaganda campaigns for Indonesian foods, and the systematic undermining of local food and agriculture. Today agriculture is overlooked in a development process that builds on our aspirations, not our strengths. |
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Friday, 24 April 2009 |
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Thursday, 23 April 2009 |
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AAA occupied Blue NG offices on Friday 17th, Via Campesina Day, in solidarity with millions of peasant land-workers demonstrating globally against agrofuels. Blue NG are committing a crime against humanity and the planet by using misinformation* to win support for the new market of agrofuel power stations, when virtually all agrofuels have been shown to cause ecosystem destruction, accelerated climate change & food poverty. 
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Thursday, 23 April 2009 |
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Friday, April 17 2009 c. 5-7 pm, members of BaSo http://www.baso-news.de/ , Attac Wuppertal http://www.attac-wtal.de and The Agrarian Group of Attac Wuppertal http://jpberlin.de/attacwtal-agrar/ have gathered in the city of Wuppertal-Elberfeld and disseminated leaflets about La Via Campesina and biofuels. Thus participators have taken the day of La Via Campesina as an opportunity to raise public awareness about the issue of limits and hazards of biofuels. |
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009 |
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Around the 17th various groups, organisations and networks condemned the effects of soy production for animal feed in South America, particularly within Paraguay and/ or the effects of industrial meat production in piglet-factories and mast-plants within Europe.
17th of April: FIAN and AI protested in front of the embassy of Paraguay in Berlin and demanded: Agrarian reforms in Paraguay! An hour later Nandu and attac protested in front of the chancellery and condemned: „Displacement for animal feed? – Stop the construction of piglet factories and mast-plants! 
Alt Tellin: We from the „action network global agriculture“ had given a call to occupy the area (symbolically) in the commune Alt Tellin, where the investor Straathof plans to construct Europe’s biggest piglet factory. Around 100 people joined us. With the slogan: Here slurry and there hunger – save life in the countryside! - We protested against the uprooting and displacement of people in Paraguay in the context of soy production for animal feed and migration into the cities within Europe cause of the industrial (agricultural) system and for food sovereignty. Within a couple of hours we turned the area into a creative space, had discussion rounds, did wall paintings, gardening, had people’s food and enjoyed/did cultural programs.
On the 18th we joined the march “Save life in the countryside” of the local citizens´ initiative “Leben am Tollensetal”. We started from our camp and joined two other rallies. All together we were around 150 to 200 people participating in a manifestation. Afterwards we had a village celebration with speeches, including one speaker from AbL among others, had exhibitions, concerts, theatre etc. For more information see www.globale-landwirtschaft.net Contact:
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Monday, 20 April 2009 |
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Nouminren, the member of Via Campesina in Japan had a campaign for the International Day of Peasant's Struggle from April 15th to the 17th. The focus of the campaign was to demand a retraction of the bill of reforming Agricultural Land Act. The intention of this bill is to destroy all the success made by current Agricultural Land Reform after the end of World War II. The existing act enacts that only those who live in agricultural rural area and cultivate their own land with family-farming style have rights to own and use agricultural lands. On the other hand, the bill calls for a change to open the agricultural land to TNCs and corporations that are seeking for speculating opportunities. |
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Monday, 20 April 2009 |
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