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Resources Rights and Food Sovereignty: Linking Our Neighborhood of Main South to the Global South

By: Carol Schachet | Novembro 30, 2007

Panel: Resources Rights and Food Sovereignty: Linking Our Neighborhood of Main South to the Global South
With Matt Feinstein from The Food Justice Campaign, and Prof. Dianne Rocheleau from the Geography Department of Clark University.

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Clark University
Jefferson Building Room 218
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610
Event sponsored by Praxis, The Food Justice Campaign, School of Geography of Clark University, Worcester Immigrant Coalition, Urban Garden Resources of Worcester/Regional Environmental Council, Worcester Roots Project, Worcester Global Action Network (WoGAN).
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Speaking Tour of Brazilian Land Rights Activist in Massachusetts

By: Saulo Araujo | Novembro 29, 2007

Grassroots International and U.S. Friends of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (FMST) are delighted to host Luis Antonio Pasquetti, from the National Committee of the Landless Workers Movement (MST), a member of Via Campesina, during his tour in the United States.
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Activists Attacked in Brazil: Update

By: Jake Miller | Outubro 30, 2007

Isabella Kenfield and Roger Burbach of Center for the Study of the Americas have written an article with more details about a vicious, deadly attack on activists from the Via Campesina and the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Parana, Brazil on October 21.
A peaceful protest against genetically-modified seed testing turned into an a bloody shooting that resulted in the death of a local leader and the wounding of eight other activists i.
The gunmen, who were carrying illegal firearms including automatic weapons, worked for a security company hired by Syngenta, one of the biggest producers of seeds and agricutural chemicals in the world.
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Protestor Assasinated During Direct Action in Brazil

By: Jake Miller | Outubro 24, 2007

Private security forces hired by the multinational agribusiness Syngenta shot and killed Valmir Motta de Olivera, a leader of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) and the Via Campesina during a direct action protest on Sunday, Oct 21 in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná. Eight other protestors were wounded in the attack. The landless workers were occupying the site, where Syngenta runs field trials for genetically modified seeds. The land borders an ecologically important national park area, and the Via have proposed that the land be developed instead as a center for agroecology and creole seed production.
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International Peasants’ Struggle Day – April 17

By: Nikhil Aziz | Abril 21, 2007

The 17th of April is International Peasants' Struggle Day, established after the massacre of 19 landless peasants belonging to the Landless Movement (MST) in Brazil on the 17th of April 1996 which occurred during the second conference of the Via Campesina in Tlaxcala Mexico. Many of Grassroots International's partners, including the MST are members of the Via Campesina, and Grassroots directly works with the Via as well.
In commemoration of International Peasants' Struggle Day, the Via Campesina and its allies are organizing activities and actions all over the world. Peasants and friends will rally around the demands that the Via posted on its website.
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Biofuels: The industrial model is bad for the environment, worse for workers

By: Saulo Araujo | Março 14, 2007

The latest post in our ongoing series on biofuels, human rights and the environment in Latin America.
We hear the claims so often—biofuels will save the environment, biofuels are clean and green—that they begin to sound like common sense. The corporations tell us that biofuels made from sugar cane, castor beans and soy will save the environment from the ravages of petroleum-based fuels, and we all wish that it were true.
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Bush, Biofuels and Latin America

By: Saulo Araujo | Março 8, 2007

This is the first of three articles that we will be publishing about biofuels and their impact on trade, the environment and the water and land rights of rural workers and indigenous and traditional Afro-descendant communities in Latin America.
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Women of Via Campesina Brazil in Honor of International Women’s Day Occupy a Cargill-owned Sugar Mill in Sao Paulo

By: Maria Aguiar | Março 8, 2007

Grassroots International has received this report from our partners in Brazil. Part of a week-long series of actions honoring International Women's Day and protesting the upcoming visit of President Bush, the women of Via Campesina Brazil and the MST have occupied a sugar mill in the state of Sao Paulo that was recently purchased by Cargill - one of the five largest agricultural transational corporations in the world.
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Via Campesina Brazil’s Women Are for Food Sovereignty and against Agribusiness

By: Maria Aguiar | Março 6, 2007

Today, March 6th, Grassroots International received an announcement from the Via Campesina Brazil. The women of the Via Campesina Brazil are honoring International Women's Day by organizing land occupations and protests against large Brazilian and transnational corporations who own and exploit huge tracts of Brazilian land and labor for monocultured cultivation of trees for cellulose for export. The women refer to these huge tracts of land planted only with such trees as the "green deserts" of Brazil - green deserts because they produce no food and very little employment, and are also environmentally damaging. Please read the announcement of our partners below:
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Joao Pedro Stedile (MST) Says International Financial Institutions Do Not Represent People

By: Nikhil Aziz | Fevereiro 28, 2007

Joao Pedro Stedile, an MST leader and member of Grassroots International's Resource Rights Advisory Group participated along with his colleagues at the Nyeleni Food Sovereignty Forum. While there he spoke with Radio Mundo Real about how the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank do not represent the interests of ordinary people and argued that international trade must first and foremost meet the needs of people not corporations. The interview originally appeared on the Nyeleni website.
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The Reais Deal with Brazil

By: Nikhil Aziz | Fevereiro 15, 2007

Since Lula's election as president, some progressives (at least outside of Brazil) have been somewhat complacent about "our guy" in Brasilia.
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New Book: Farmers, Environmentalists and Researchers Working Together for Food Sovereignty

By: Carol Schachet | Janeiro 2, 2007

Grassroots International is pleased to announce a new book co-edited by our Resource Rights Specialist, Corrina Steward, "Agroecology and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty in the Americas" (International Institute for Environment and Development, IUCN Commission on Environmental Economic and Social Policy, and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 2006). The publication explores the emerging alliances among small farmer organizations, environmentalists and scholars to promote ecologically sound and economically just food and agriculture systems across the Americas.
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Brazil: Social Movements Win in Fight Against Genetically Modified Soy Experiments in National Park

By: Carol Schachet | Novembro 27, 2006

The Via Campesina and the Landless Workers Movement (MST) have successfully advocated for removing the global agribusiness Syngenta from a national park in Santa Teresa do Oeste, Paraná, in the south of Brazil.
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Leaders of the MST Assassinated, Jailed in Pernambuco

By: Jake Miller | Agosto 24, 2006

Earlier this week, while Saulo Araujo and I were visiting our partners at Polo Sindical in the interior of Bahia and Pernambuco, Brazil, hearing about the long history of violent struggles there to re-settle families displaced by a series of large hydro-electric dam projects (including some families that still have not been resettled 20 years later) we received news that two leaders of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) were assassinated at an encampment in greater Recife, Pernambuco.
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Social Movement Faces Violent Repression in Brazil

By: Jake Miller | Agosto 24, 2006

This morning I accompanied Fernando Prioste, an attorney for the Brazilian human rights organization Terra de Direitos (Land of Rights), to visit Jaime Amorim at the Centro de Triagem pre-trial detention center in Abreu e Lima on the outskirts of Recife, in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.
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Greetings from the Sertão in Bahia, Brazil

By: Jake Miller | Agosto 20, 2006

On our way back from a tour of the enormous hydro-electric dam here in Paulo Alfonso this afternoon, Saulo Araujo and I stopped at a small pond covered with water lilies and what looked to my North-American eyes like duckweed. I was delighted to see dozens of Jacanas and gallinules feeding in the weeds and just as we were about to leave an Amazon Kingfisher flew out from the trees on the edge and dove into the pond for a fish.
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Ancestral Land of Black Community Reclaimed from Multinational Corporation

By: Saulo Araujo | Agosto 10, 2006

Last month, 300 women and men from quilombos of the Brazilian southeastern state of Espírito Santo reclaimed a parcel of ancestral land from ARACRUZ Cellulose, a Norwegian-based corporation, according reports from the Anti-Green Desserts Network. The land is part of the former Linharinho quilombo. Two of Grassroots International's Brazilian partners, the Landless Movement (MST) and the Movement of Small Farmers (MPA), supported the initiative of the quilombolas in Espirito Santo.
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Police Use Bullets and Billboards to Attack Social Movements in Brazil

By: Saulo Araujo | Junho 2, 2006

As if it weren't enough that state and local police in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco have used violence and spurious prosecutions to intimidate social movements and resource rights activists, they have recently unleashed a new weapon: billboards and leaflets.
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International Day of Peasant Struggle Kicks Off Global Action for Resource Rights

By: Carol Schachet | Abril 18, 2006

On Monday, April 17 movements all over the world kicked off global mobilizations and actions in support of peasants' struggles for land, water and food rights.
The Via Campesina, an international movement of family farmers, landless workers, fisher folk and women's and indigenous' organizations, designated April 17th the International Day of Peasant Struggle to commemorate the 1996 Massacre in Carajas, Brazil. The incident resulted in the murders of 19 members of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), a member of the Via Campesina and a Grassroots partner.
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Bold Actions in Brazil for International Women’s Day

By: Carol Schachet | Março 8, 2006

Grassroots International wishes you a happy International Women's Day!
I want to share with you a declaration from women from the Via Campesina in Brazil. The women are in Porto Alegre, Brazil during the Second World Conference of Agrarian Reform and Rural Development — the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN. They have set up a parallel forum entitled, "Land, Territory and Dignity". They set out on a march early this morning to shout out their vision of equal land and water rights for all. It's a very hopeful vision, especially for the multitudes of women around the world denied access to these precious, life-giving resources.
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