Did Monsanto Write Malawi’s Seed Policy?
Malawi farmers support themselves by saving seeds for their neighbors. But bureaucrats and Monsanto are banning these seeds from markets, reports Tim Wise.
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Honduran Activists Speak at New York City Event
For Miranda and Zúñiga, we can reconnect and advance the legitimacy of human rights by identifying the ‘monster’ created by the collaboration of power-holders such as the military, corporations, governments, and organized crime entities (especially those involved in perpetuating the drug war). They said we must call these threats by name, and work together across issues, movements, and spaces.
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Global Peasant Movement Assesses & Responds to Heated Political Moment
In VIIth International Conference of La Via Campesina, built on decades of organizing, offered insight and response to contemporary resource grabs, authoritarian power grabs, violence against women, and the climate and migration crises. By going home to work the land, peasants know they are engaging in one of the most political acts of all: agriculture.
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Marina dos Santos Brings Message from the MST to Via Campesina Conference
A version of this piece originally appeared on the Landless Workers Movement’s website. English translation was done by Grassroots International. Peasants from more than 70 countries will gather in Derio, in the Basque Country, between July 16 and 24, where the...
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VIIth International Conference, La Via Campesina: Euskal Herria Declaration
The Euskal Herria Declaration, created by delegates of La Via Campesina at the VIIth International Conference, outlines three points of organizing of the global peasant movement.
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Peasants From Over 70 Countries Meet to Build Food Sovereignty
Over 450 peasant movement representatives from all over the world will gather at the VIIth International Conference of La Via Campesina to continue the struggle against capitalism and to propose concrete ways to build an alternative world based on dignity and Food Sovereignty.
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Organizations and Movements Defend Brazilian Forests from Carbon Offsets
More than 50 Brazilian organizations and social movements working on issues related to the environment, human rights, workers' rights, indigenous peoples and traditional peoples and communities have filed a "Letter in defense of the historic position of Brazil on forest offsets " with the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is in reaction to an attempt to enable the use of forests in offsets, a measure seen as a false solution to the challenge of climate change.
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New Threats Against Human Rights Defenders Require New Kinds of Protection
Human rights organizations and funders in Latin America need to rethink how they protect defenders in light of increasing threats from non-state actors and impunity encouraged by the state.
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The Future of Farmland (Part 2): Grabbing the Land Back
Democratic, cooperative, and community-controlled models are the future for farmland ownership.
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Movement Building at the Heart of Haitian Peasants’ Response to Climate Change
The Peasant Movement of Papaye is leading the way towards a new Haiti centered on food sovereignty and climate justice.
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The Future of Farmland (Part 1): The New Land Grab
If you don’t follow investment trends, you may not know that one of the hottest investment opportunities in recent years is land, specifically farmland.
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VIDEO: Berta Cáceres Act Needs to Be Passed
Video about why the US Congress must pass the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act (H.R. 1299)
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Demonstrators Protest Against Temer in Front of the Brazilian Consulate in Boston
A group made up of Brazilians, North Americans, Puerto Ricans and other nationalities who are part of the "Friends of the MST" (Landless Workers Movement), gathered on the morning of Thursday, June 8 in front of the Brazilian Consulate in Boston on Purchase Street with banners, calling for the departure of President Michel Temer.
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Workers Affected by Dams Take the Streets in Defense of Retirement and Worker’s Rights
In addition to the general strike on April 28, 2017, hundreds of workers took the streets early in the morning to protest against Michel Temer's illegitimate government measures. Main viaducts, avenues and highways of the whole country were blocked up at dawn.
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Climate Change and Economic Challenges in Palestine
Food sovereignty is the major challenge in Palestine. The movement and export restrictions, the long waits while tomatoes and strawberries sour in the hot sun, is 70% better in the West Bank [than in Gaza].