[WSMDiscuss] Fwd: April 17th, 2019, the International Day of Peasants' Struggle : "The Declaration on Peasants’ Rights should become a political tool for Agrarian Reform and Social Justice” (La Via Campesina)

Wed Apr 17 15:53:40 CEST 2019

Also in support of the International Day of Peasant Struggles:

Apologies for cross-postings.
Please share with your allies and networks.  

Solidarity With Those Who Feed the World

Small-scale food providers--peasants, pastoralists, rural women, agricultural workers, artisanal fisherfolk, indigenous peoples and local processors--feed more than two-thirds of the world’s population. Yet, their central roles in realizing the right to food, employment and ecological conservation are not adequately recognized by policy makers and instead, they are threatened by the industrial food chain led by global agribusinesses and food corporations. Across Asia, many food-producing and working communities, especially women, continually suffer from severe and chronic hunger, displacement, dispossession, violence and impunity amidst competing interests and values.

Visions, practices, and systems that challenge the dominant economic paradigm are advanced by small-scale food providers around the world. These systems place the rights of peoples, communities, and the environment above economic and financial considerations. The recent adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas is a significant step forward in guaranteeing, realizing, and protecting the rights of small scale food providers. It is imperative that we strengthen our solidarity with the movements for food sovereignty and with those who feed the world.

We invite you to visit our online exhibition on the International Day of Peasants’ Struggles: https://focusweb.org/solidarity-with-those-who-feed-the-world/ <https://focusweb.org/solidarity-with-those-who-feed-the-world/>

> On 17 Apr 2019, at 20:48, Jai Sen <jai.sen at cacim.net> wrote:
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> Wednesday, April 17, 2019
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> Peasants in movement…
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> April 17 2019, the International Day of Peasants' Struggle :
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> ‘The Declaration on Peasants' Rights should become a political tool for Agrarian Reform and Social Justice’
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> La Via Campesina
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>             In solidarity !
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>             JS
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> fwd
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: La Via Campesina <via-info-en at viacampesina.org <mailto:via-info-en at viacampesina.org>>
>> Subject: [Info EN] April 17th, 2019 – “The Declaration on Peasants’ Rights should become a political tool for Agrarian Reform and Social Justice”
>> Date: April 17, 2019 at 7:06:28 AM EDT
>> To: via info en <via-info-en at viacampesina.org <mailto:via-info-en at viacampesina.org>>
>> Reply-To: viacampesina at viacampesina.org <mailto:viacampesina at viacampesina.org>
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> 
> April 17th, 2019 – "The Declaration on Peasants' Rights should become a political tool for Agrarian Reform and Social Justice"
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>  17 APRIL 2019  FOOD SOVEREIGNTY <https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/food-sovereignty-and-trade/>, GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR AGRARIAN REFORM <https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/agrarian-reform/global-campaign-for-agrarian-reform/>, LAND, WATER AND TERRITORIES <https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/agrarian-reform/>, PEASANTS' RIGHTS <https://viacampesina.org/en/what-are-we-fighting-for/human-rights/>
> Press Release – La Vía Campesina.
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> (Harare, April 17th, 2019) Today, April 17th, 2019, the International Day of Peasants' Struggle, the member organisations of La Via Campesina are reaffirming the Declaration on Peasants' Rights as a political tool to strengthen the global struggle for decent living and working conditions in rural areas. The Declaration should also be a tool for the worldwide promotion of urgently-needed agrarian reform programmes, as essential components of public policies that countries should implement in their respective territories. On this International Day of Peasants' Struggle, we are also demanding full respect for our rights. The defence of land and territory is not a crime. There must be an end to impunity and an end to criminalisation, eviction, and killing. Today, when we remember the "Eldorado dos Carajás Massacre" <https://viacampesina.org/en/brazilian-peasants-organize-protests-to-demand-land-reform-and-social-justice/>, which took place 23 years ago in Brazil, and when we remember our other struggles in other places, we are calling for Peasants' Rights with Agrarian Reform and Social Justice.
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> As an international peasant movement, we are asking for agrarian reform programmes within a process of developing food sovereignty. We are asking for the strengthening of peasant family farming, which guarantees the right of rural and urban workers to healthy food at fair prices and makes possible the effective implementation of the Peasants' Rights Declaration <https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/UN_Declaration_on_the_rights_of_peasants_and_other_people_working-in-rural_areas.pdf> all over the world.
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> Our proposal for agrarian reform not only ensures the democratisation of access to land, but it also includes all of the factors that allow peasants – women and men – to live with dignity: education, health, culture, infrastructure, as well as public goods such as water, the seas, mangrove swamps and inland waters, seeds, and biodiversity as a whole. It implies market regulation and an end to land grabbing, evictions, and killings. It also includes the strengthening of agroecological production as a way of farming that is consistent with natural cycles and that can slow down climate change, maintain biodiversity, and reduce pollution.
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> With the worldwide onslaught of capital, especially in Latin America, "one of the principal challenges is the combined struggle for land, for food that is free from poisons, and for social justice. This means that, in order to guarantee respect for Peasants' Rights in our territories, we need to build unity around a popular counter-offensive for regaining ground in our continent and for demanding public policies that are beneficial to us", states Diego Montón of the National Peasant Indigenous Movement (Movimiento Nacional Campesino Indígena) of Argentina.
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> In Asia, there are other problems and issues. Peasant women face many obstacles to ensuring that their rights are respected. In particular, women do not have the right to land, and they are unjustly treated both within social organisations and in their communities. In addition, peasants do not receive fair prices for their products, a situation that has given rise to many protests in southern and south-eastern Asia during the past year. The Asian region is also facing a series of regional and multilateral free trade agreements. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is one of the largest of these agreements; it covers 16 Asian-Pacific countries and poses a potential threat to Peasants' Rights.
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> Agrarian reform in the Middle East and North Africa is interlaced with occupation and colonialism; it is a key factor for attaining food sovereignty in a context of war. For peasants, agrarian reform is an imperative right; without that right, it is impossible to attain autonomy and independence, to overcome exploitation, servitude and erosion, or to confront the policies of direct and indirect colonisation enacted by the regimes in power.  
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> As member organisations of La Via Campesina, we are extremely worried to note that, in every corner of the planet – Africa, America, Europe, and Asia, we are confronted by capitalist interests that put the rush to extractivism before life itself. We are confronted by changes in soil use and by landgrabbbing on a massive and alarming scale that is in direct contradiction with popular agrarian reform. This situation not only threatens Peasants' Rights, but it also jeopardizes Food Sovereignty the world over.
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> This is why, on April 17th, we are joining together, in solidarity and struggle, to say: Peasants' Rights Now! With Agrarian Reform and Social Justice!
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> Contacts:
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> Diego Montón, National Peasant Indigenous Movement (Movimiento Nacional Campesino Indígena) of Argentina. – Spanish (+54 92615062)
> Marina Dos Santos, The Landless Movement of Brasil – Portugués/ Spanish (+55 21981850558)
> Henry Saragih, SPI, Indonesia – English
> Federico Pacheco – Andalusian Union of Workers, SOC- SAT. French (+34 0690651046)
> GLOBAL MAP OF ACTIONS THIS WEEK!
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