(Pakistan, Lahore, April 17, 2015) Anjuman-e-Muzareen Punjab, Pakistan (AMP) (A Movement of Landless peasants) organized a demonstration on “International Peasants’ Day” on Tuesday, the 17th of April 2015 at 3:30 pm, in front of the Lahore Press Club, Lahore. Its purpose is to have ownership rights to those who have been tilling almost a century....
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...
