History shows that for southern countries
History show that for southern countries
export-oriented agriculture has failed.
140 Organizations world-wide
200 million members
The transnational corporations
and the subservience of our governments,
lead to a dangerous food dependence.
They decided to import food items
and against local production by peasants
of produce the populace needs.
We are many and we have to survive.
They are causing the peoples great harm.
They want to wipe out the peoples.
We don't want any more deception.
We don't want the gov't and land owners
to muck around with us any longer.
We planted lots, sweet potatoes, pineapple...
we weren't lacking anything.
Now we have nothing to eat,
since they planted the eucalyptus forests.
Peasants of the South worldwide
are better organized now than ever before.
The 1st int'l organization: La Via Campesino.
La Via Campesion is the vanguard
of the movement critical of globalization.
It is a voice of peasants world-wide,
who say "It is enough!"
The peasant movement suggests
sovereignty regarding provisions;
and small family farms
as the basis of rural development.
Southern countries must be able to
refuse our subsidized exports,
to develop their own farming,
to feed themselves self-reliantly.
Peasants, farmhands, landless,
indigenous people, fishers and womens groups
world-wide have joined forces
in La Via Campesina. They fight for
dignified lives of rural populations.
Many cultures join to fight the destruction
of small subsistence farming
by agrobusiness and neoliberal politics.
They demand free access to
and communal control of lands,
water and seeds and
comprehensive agrarian land reforms.
April 17 is int'l action day of Via Campesina!