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Free trade agreements on the rise – Intense negotiations and growing resistance

Article by Solidarity Sweden – Latin America 2015 is a year of big—and perhaps irreversible—changes due to the multiple processes of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) around the world. These deals are being concretized without most people understanding what they imply and how they affect citizens all over the world. Therefore, as April 17th, marks the...

17th April: Peasants mobilize to mark two decades of struggle to defend land and life

Press Release: La Via Campesina (Harare, 15 April 2016):  On April 17, The International Day of Peasant’s Struggle - millions of peasants and their allies – women and men – around the world are uniting in action to commemorate the massacre of 19 landless farmers in 1996in Brazil and to continue the struggle for land...

LWA Action against county farm sell offs – Public Land for Public Good

Press Release The Landworkers’ Alliance (LWA) will be staging a high profile direct action in central London at 4pm on Sunday 17th April to highlight the continued sell off of publicly owned farmland and council housing under the Government’s austerity programme. The action is taking place as part of La Via Campesina’s ‘International day of Agrarian...