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Denouncing and Resisting

In the context of the international campaign against land grabbing, Real World Radio offers this special section including testimonies of the resistance and the effects of this global process that goes against the rights of communities and the sovereignty of the countries.

This section will have the support of Grain through www.farmlandgrab.org, which includes interviews and reports about the global push for buying or renting crop lands in foreign countries as a strategy to ensure the supply of basic food or just as a way to make money.

  • 26 October 2012 | | |

    Strengthening the Struggle

    Continental Assembly of CLOC-Via Campesina Passed its Charter

    The Continental Assembly of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina) discussed and approved its Charter as a necessary step towards strengthening the organization. The Assembly also approved new members. Read more

  • 26 October 2012 | | | |

    Spirit of Social Struggle

    The Voices of Victims and People Affected by Floods in Bajo Lempa, Honduras

    The Association for the Integral Development of Bajo Lempa (ADIBAL) will be a key actor at the international conference “Climate Change, Territories and Social Movements”, to be held in the Salvadorean capital, San Salvador, on November 5 and 6. Read more

  • 24 October 2012 | |

    Food as a Means of Social Justice

    Food Sovereignty Event in Uruguay

    The control of the global food system, the changes in the use of land that have taken place for some years now, the growing use of agrotoxics in developing countries, were some of the issues discussed at the event on Food Sovereignty and Food Security held last Friday, October 19 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Read more

  • 22 October 2012 | | | |

    Real Justice, Not Just Words

    The Totonicapan Massacre in Guatemala at the Assembly of CLOC-Via Campesina

    The areas for discussion at the 1st Continental Assembly of CLOC-Via Campesina, celebrated this week in Nicaragua's capital Managua, have been a space to expose and condemn the repression suffered by the resisting Latin American peoples. Read more

  • 22 October 2012 | | |

    Spoils

    Rosa Guillén (World March of Women) at the Continental Assembly of CLOC-Via Campesina

    As part of the Continental Assembly of CLOC-Via Campesina, a panel with representatives of allied organizations was held on Friday, 19 October at the Palace of Culture in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua. The World March of Women, Friends of the Earth International, Vets Without Borders and the Biodiversity Network read their analysis of the current situation and of their long-term plans. Read more

  • 19 October 2012 | | |

    Stop War

    Interview with Eberto Díaz (Fensuagro Colombia) at the Continental Assembly of CLOC-VC in Nicaragua

    The Continental Assembly of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina) began on Thursday in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, with a tribute to three key figures in the country's liberation and revolutionary process: Augusto César Sandino, Carlos Fonseca Amador and Tomás Borge. Read more

  • 18 October 2012 | |

    Open Resistance

    Increasing Resistance to Megamining in Uruguay

    Last Thursday 11th October, thousands of people organized the 3rd National March in Defense of Land and Natural Goods in Uruguay's capital, Montevideo as a reaction to the advance of the concentration and foreignization of land, the expulsion of rural workers and family farmers, the high levels of contamination, the destruction of common goods and the loss of food sovereignty. Read more

  • 17 October 2012 | | | |

    Life Under Threat

    New interview with Rafael Alegria: “If you see two men in a motorcycle, that means death”

    “There is no doubt” that the death threats against social activists come from the “oligarchy”, “they are messages to give up our fight” in a country that the United Nations has ranked as the most violent in the world, said Honduran peasant leader Rafael Alegria. Read more

  • 17 October 2012 | |

    A Day of Celebration

    October 16: World Food Sovereignty Day

    The first Food Sovereignty and Security Meeting will take place on Friday, in Montevideo, Uruguay, where several national organizations and institutions will join social movements from different parts of the world in the celebration of World Food Sovereignty Day. The activity will take place in the main offices of the national central union, PIT-CNT. Read more

  • 11 October 2012 | | |

    Argentinean Countryside Like in the Middle Ages

    Another MOCASE Peasant Murdered in Dispute Over Land in Argentina

    Almost a year after the death of Cristian Ferreyra, member of the Peasant Movement of Santiago del Estero (MOCASE), on Thursday October 10, another peasant, Miguel Galvan was stabbed to death by hitmen hired by agribusiness corporations in the north of Argentina. Read more

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