With vigor of the youth, intensify the struggle for land and life! | DAY OF THE LANDLESS 2018 #NoLandNoLife
Joint statement endorsed by 67 international, regional and national organizations to mark the “Day of the Landless”
PCFS lauds the Kisan Long March in India
The Kisan Long March serves as a noteworthy example to many farmers around the world in the collective assertion of people’s food sovereignty. Such people-based reforms on food production systems and agriculture – an effective loan waiver program, compensation to recover from natural disaster-related losses, restoration of tribal people’s rights over forest lands, and the end of all corporate grabbing of farmers’ lands, among others – are very possible to be won as long as we strive for the strengthened unity and empowerment of our social movement.
Hands off PH human rights defenders and land rights activists! Promoting food sovereignty is not terrorism!
These IP and peasant leaders, throughout the years, were at the forefront of the struggle versus the corporate control over agriculture and food production. They have stood for the welfare and interests of communities to land and food against state-sponsored neoliberal policies that further their marginalization. Labelling them as “terrorists” for their activist activities – particularly the promotion of food sovereignty – is unfounded and malicious.