Monday, 22 February 2010 17:34
La Via Campesina Call to Action
17 April 2010 - Join the International Day of Peasant Struggle

To commemorate the International Day of Peasant Struggle on April 17th 2010, the international peasant movement La Via Campesina calls upon member organisations, allies and supporters to unite against transnational corporations (TNCs), which seek complete control over food and agriculture systems around the world.

On April 17th 1996, nineteen landless Brazilian peasants who were defending their right to produce food by demanding access to land were massacred by the military police. Since the massacre at El Dorado dos Carajás, every year on this date actions are organised around the world by farmers’ organisations, communities, student groups, non-governmental organizations and activists, in order to demand food sovereignty and peasants’ rights to produce food.

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La Via Campesina, Corporate, Control, Agriculture, Food, Medicine, Society, peasants, El Dorado, Carajás

La Via Campesina, Corporate, Control, Agriculture, Food, Medicine, Society, peasants, El Dorado, Carajás

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