April 17, 2015 (first published on http://www.australianfoodsovereigntyalliance.org/blog/) Community unites with farmers in resistance to dairy expansion in Bass Coast Shire The proposed multi-million dollar expansion of Kernot Dairy, owned by the Chinese corporation Ningbo, is raising the ire of farmers and local residents in Gippsland on a day that commemorates the struggle of small farmers...
17 April: Lobby Action tour on TTIP, Food and Farming - April 17 : Via Campesina International Day of Peasant Struggle - April 18 : Global Day of Action against free trade agreements As part of the global mobilisations on the impacts of “free” trade agreements such as TTIP, CETA and TPP, Via Campesina, the...
17 April: International Day of Farmers’ Struggle and 18 April: Global Day of Action against TTIP (Belgium, Brussels, April 17, 2015) On 17 April, Via Campesina, the D190-20 Alliance and Corporate Europe Observatory held a lobby tour around the Brussels European quarter, highlighting the corporate lobbies who are pushing an aggressive agenda around TTIP (the EU-US...
17 April 2015: International Day of Peasant and Farmer Struggle against Transnational Companies and Free Trade Agreements (Zimbabwe, Harare, March 30, 2015) La Via Campesina declared April 17th as the International Day of Peasant Struggle in order to highlight the struggle and to denounce the criminalization of protests. Peasant and farmers are persecuted and suffer violence...
