WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, FdCA, Il Cantiere #16: International, April 17 International Day of Peasant Struggles - La Via Campesina (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Resist the repression! ---- In the face of global crises, let's build food

sovereignty to ensure a future for humanity! ---- The International Day of
Peasant Struggles is commemorated by La Via Campesina every year on April 17 to
remember the 1996 Eldorado do Carajás massacre, where the state machine, allied
with agribusiness interests, killed 19 peasants who defended the their right to
the land. On this day, we also highlight and denounce the continued
criminalisation, oppression and repression of peasant, labour, migrant and
indigenous communities around the world.
Our lives are at risk and so is the future of humanity.
In recent months alone, social movements in Brazil, Palestine, Paraguay,
Colombia, Mali, Ecuador, France, Spain, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, South
Korea, Kenya, Canada, Haiti, Guatemala and Peru have denounced the serious
violations of the rights of peasant and rural communities.
Even hunger is violence. The pandemic and ongoing conflicts have only accentuated
hunger. All these so-called crises are an indictment of the dominant model of
capitalism that exists today. Our territories, whose climate and biodiversity are
continually destroyed as capitalist interests impose new and increasingly
dangerous technologies without any public debate, consultation or participation,
threaten every way of life around the world. Political and social instability is
widespread due to systematic murders, massacres, enforced disappearances, high
rates of femicide, arbitrary imprisonment and detention, intimidation, harassment
and threats, persecution of defenders of territories, forced migration and wars
against ordinary people.
This April 17, more than ever, we reaffirm that our struggle is part of the
defense of human rights and life, as stated in the United Nations Declaration on
the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP). While
capital advances on territories until recently considered "marginal", peasants,
indigenous peoples and other rural inhabitants represent the main frontier of
resistance against the hydro-agro-extractivism of transnational megacorporations.
The Via Campesina is an expression of this collective action and resistance. This
year, as our global movement celebrates its 30th anniversary, we are stepping up
the pressure to build an alternative systemic model that delivers social justice.
This April 17 is, therefore, a moment to reaffirm our concrete proposals. We will
build a better society in which our different societies realize their food
sovereignty through the practice of peasant agroecology. We will continue to
defend our rights using UNDROP and other international tools. We will build
better societies with justice. Our local food production, self-determination with
dignity, peace, popular peasant feminism and popular sovereignty are only
possible with these tools. There is no future without food sovereignty!
Our Call for the 8th International Conference.
In November of this year, La Via Campesina will convene its VIII International
Conference in Nicaragua. In this International Conference, we will bring together
the diverse proposals emerging from our 182 member organizations in 81 countries.
We will learn from a diverse set of experiences that our farming and indigenous
communities have already put into practice. We will exchange and build a
collective vision for the future based on these existing alternatives that are
being practiced in our communities.
And as we gather our proposals for this important event, our call to unite and
build a new society is well expressed in the slogan of the 8th Conference: "In
the face of global crises, let's build food sovereignty to secure a future for
humanity!"
The precondition for such a future is an immediate and unconditional end to the
ongoing criminalization and persecution of peasant movements and their leaders.
April is our time to collectively denounce this persecution, to stand united
against the forces that oppress us.
This call is for all members of La Via Campesina to come together this April and
be seen and heard. Here's how we can do it:

* Organize public demonstrations and forums against the criminalization acts
taking place in your territories. We are releasing a poster to adapt, translate
and share in our communities.
   * Share news and updates of these actions on social media
   * Use the hashtags #PeasantResistance #StopKillingUs #StopTheRepression and
actively share photos, videos and posters from your public actions, forums and
meetings.
* Express our collective intent to exist, survive and build a new society. Take
our official slogan of the 8th Conference: "Faced with global crises, let's build
food sovereignty to secure a future for humanity!" Transmit, translate and adapt
it through communication materials, press releases and public actions.
      * Use the hashtag #8ConfLVC to highlight our efforts towards the 8th
International Conference.
      * A promotional video for our upcoming 8th International Conference - our
moment to gather and build our alternatives - will be released on Monday the 20th.
      * Follow the La Via Campesina website and social media handles for videos
and more! We will also relink a series of illustrated educational materials on
UNDROP popular educational materials, peasant seeds and peasant feminism.
      * Send details of your actions and events by email to
communications@viacampesina.org We will add the details to a global map tracking
all solidarity actions.

In the face of global crises, let's build food sovereignty to ensure a future for
humanity!

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