2015 Special Broadcasts / 6th CLOC-Via Campesina Continental Congress
In the framework of the 20th anniversary of its foundation, the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina) will organize its 6th Congress to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from April 10-17, 2015. There will also be peasant women and youth assemblies. The congress aims at “food sovereignty supported on Integral and Popular Agrarian Reforms to produce the food our peoples and humanity need to ensure their development for lands, territories and peasant/indigenous seeds, generated in a relationship of love with nature, with Mother Earth, which shows us the paths towards Good Living”. Real World Radio will participate in the communication work around this Congress, together with the team of CLOC-Via Campesina.
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14 May 2015 | Interviews | 6th CLOC-Via Campesina Continental Congress
Victories for the Latin American peasant struggle: interview with Marina Dos Santos of the MST, Brazil
The 6th Congress of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina) strengthened the concept of socialism as an inspiration and an alternative model to that “imposed by capital”. Read more
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21 April 2015 | News | Financialization of nature | 6th CLOC-Via Campesina Continental Congress | Land grabbing
Final declaration of the 6th Congress of CLOC Via Campesina
On the International Day of Peasant Struggles,after a march through the streets of Buenos Aires,from the US Embassy, an imperialistic symbol, to the Argentinean Rural Association, a symbol of agribusiness in the country, the organizers of the 6th Congress of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina), shared the final statement, which you can read below. The document is a result of eight days of debates and was read by representatives of the Youth Assembly of CLOC. Read more
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17 April 2015 | Interviews | 6th CLOC-Via Campesina Continental Congress
Interview with Colombian peasant leader and Senator Alberto Castilla
In the framework of the 6th Congress of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina) Real World Radio interviewed Alberto Castilla, Colombian Senator for the Polo Alternativo Democrático Party and president of the National Agrarian Coordination of this country. Read more
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15 April 2015 | Photo Galleries | 6th CLOC-Via Campesina Continental Congress
Images and challenges of the 6th Congress of CLOC – Via Campesina
With 20 years of existence, today, the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina) gathers in its 6th Congress the most representative forces of the Latin American countryside and takes on the challenge to build alternatives to the capitalist system, based on what they call peasant and popular socialism. See gallery
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12 April 2015 | Special reports | 6th CLOC-Via Campesina Continental Congress
6th CLOC Congress: rural and urban youth towards Popular Sovereignty
The 6th Congress of CLOC-Via Campesina was launched on Friday, April 10, with a Young People Assembly, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Congress will take place until the International Day of Peasant Struggle, April 17. Read more
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1 April 2015 | News | 6th CLOC-Via Campesina Continental Congress
6th Congress of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-VC) to begin in 10 days
The 6th Congress of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations will be launched on April 10 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, marking the 20th anniversary of this continental organization. Read more
