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.
19 December 2012 | Interviews | Latin American Meeting on Environmental Education Experiences of the Peoples | Land grabbing
“Nowadays in Peru, at national level, we are suffering an avalanche of extractive industries, which leaves our peasant communities cornered", said Gloria Velazco in an interview with Real World Radio at the 5th Latin American Meeting on Environmental Education Experiences of the Peoples. Read more
18 December 2012 | Interviews | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
Argentina is going through deep changes which confronts Cristina Fernandez’ administration with the country’s big economic groups determined to prevent any form of democratization and judiciary restructuring. Read more
13 December 2012 | News | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
At times when the Argentinean judiciary is being questioned for several conservative decisions, an appeals court in Santiago del Estero province dismissed an appeal to release the responsible for the murder of peasant activist Cristian Ferreyra. Read more
3 December 2012 | News | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
On Saturday early morning two masked persons murdered Paraguayan peasant leader Vidal Vega, member of the Landless Peasant Commission that fights to obtain the Marina Cue plot of land in Canindeyu department, 35 km from Curuguaty where 11 landless peasants were killed on June 15th. The incident was dubbed as the Curuguaty massacre. Read more
30 November 2012 | Interviews | Free Honduras | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing
The leader of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina) Rafael Alegria, who has received death threats by businessmen and rural estate owners, talked about the 20 years of the organization. Read more
22 November 2012 | News | Human Rights and International Solidarity Mission | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
The Platform of Social Organizations for Democracy of Paraguay is holding the final stage of an oral ethical and public trial before the National Congress on Thursday in the country’s capital, Asuncion. The Congress promoted a coup d’état in June, disguised as an impeachment, where the constitutionally elected President, Fernando Lugo, was ousted. Read more
1 November 2012 | Interviews | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina | Land grabbing
The peasants are facing the big challenge of understanding the advance of capital on agriculture and natural goods and of generating an alternative project that enables to overcome this agribusiness model in the countryside, warned the leader of the Rural Landless' Peasant Movement of Brazil, Roberto Baggio. Read more
31 October 2012 | Interviews | Land grabbing
The Mbarete ecologist group is based in Chavarria town, in the province of Corrientes, Argentina. The group is the founder of the Organization Guardians of Ibera and it comprises different groups from within the province. They have warned about the environmental problems in Ibera, while they promote citizen participation, local organization through direct action and protests against the people who destroy the environment without being punished for it. Read more
31 October 2012 | Testimonies | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
The recent history of Guatemala doest not cease to surprise. Despite the change in the governments and successive presidents, the violence against the peasant and indigenous communities is scary. Daniel Pascual, leader of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina) explained this during his speech as part of the act of solidarity held in “El Cipres”. Read more
29 October 2012 | Interviews | Free Honduras | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
Karla Zelaya is part of the communications team of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan (MUCA), an organization fighting for agrarian transformation and fair distribution of lands in Honduras. She was kidnapped in Tegucigalpa, the country's capital, on October 23 and she made it out alive. But she was warned to keep her mouth shut. Read more
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