Test Shows that People Affected by Hydrodam Disaster are Contaminated with Nickel and Arsenic
Test show that people affected by November 2015 hydrodam disaster in Brazil are contaminated with nickel and arsenic.
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Traversing the Dry Corridor: An Account of the Peasant Women Cooperatives in Honduras
Environmental changes in the Dry Corridor – Corredor Seco – and Atlantic Coast have driven migration in Honduras, one of the countries most affected by climate change. Here, women have gathered together in old and new collectives, as they struggle to create economic opportunities and grow crops against increasing weather variability.
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Security Forces Persecute Peasant Union Leaders in Honduras
Months after the disputed Honduras presidential election, more than 30 people have been assassinated and hundreds more detained. In a recent statement, the Platform of the Social and Popular Movement of Honduras denounces death threats and acts of intimidation made against peasant leaders.
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Murder and Assault Committed Against Evicted Families in Guatemala
The Peasant Unity Committee (CUC), a Grassroots partner, describes the violence and murder committed against indigenous families by private security forces in November.
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Honduras Solidarity Network Responds to US Recognition of Fraudulently Elected Hernandez as President of Honduras
We reject the deceitful and arrogant position of the US government which ignores the clamor of the Honduran people for democracy and the ongoing deadly violence by the Honduran government against the people.
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Between Hope and a New Horizon
The Landless Workers Movement (MST) has had an active presence in the Governador Valadares region and in other areas along the Doce River. They began organizing people who had been affected by the dam disaster, people who had suffered the consequences including job loss and lack of clean water.
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Schell Report Details Harmful Effects of Haiti’s Agricultural Mega-Development Plans
A new report by Grassroots International partner Platform to Advocate Alternative Development Advocacy (PAPDA) and Yale Law School's Lowenstein Clinic details how mega-projects harm the food security of rural Haitians.
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As Leaders Gather in Bonn for COP23 Climate Talks…
The Grassroots Climate Solutions Fund (GCSF) is excited to announce its first round of grant awards to 11 grassroots climate justice organizations operating around the world who are building local resilience – not only for when the most acute suffering or injustice occurs, but for a thriving future.
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Hurricane Sandy Survivors meet for Anniversary: “We’re Living it All over Again”
On the eve of a march Saturday to call for action on climate change and mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, survivors of hurricanes Maria, Irma and Katrina from around the U.S. and the Caribbean gathered in a show of solidarity in New York City.
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Transforming Society as Capitalism Crumbles: Lessons from Brazil’s Peasant Movement
The new government in Brazil is unrolling austerity policies that are eroding working families’ political gains. In this interview, a member of the MST reflects on the danger and potential of this current moment, highlighting opportunities to build alternatives to capitalism as the current economic system flounders.
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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.