European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC), Brussels, 16 April 2016 It has been twenty years since the tragic day in Brazil’s northern state of Pará where 19 peasant men and women were murdered by government security forces. Considered by many as the culmination of the regional –and global- persecution against those defending their land against corporate...
The US Food Sovereignty Alliance calls for mobilizations for food sovereignty and food justice that put food producers - farmers, workers, urban gardeners, fishermen - back in control of their land and their food. April 17th is an important day in the struggle for food sovereignty. Twenty years ago,19 members of the Landless Workers Movement...
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...
