{mini}Printable version

English · Español · Português

19 June 2013 | | | | | | |

Solidarity, Unity and Internationalism

Interview with Deo Carrizo of MNCI: “We are exposing our bodies in the territories”

Download: MP3 (1009.4 kb)

Deolinda Carrizo is a member of the Peasant Movement of Santiago del Estero (MOCASE), Argentina. Despite her young age (she is now 30), she has been a longtime activist in the struggle for access to land for peasants, against agribusiness and social injustice.

Deo is also a member of the National Peasant and Indigenous Movement of Argentina (MNCI), which secretariat operated within the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC). We interviewed Deo at the 6th International Conference of La Via Campesina that ended last week in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Deo began by making general remarks about the Conference of La Via Campesina and highlighted that “today we suffer the growing offensive of capitalism, so we have to be united locally, nationally and internationally”.

Some of the political aspects the conference should address, in her opinion, is the need for solidarity and internationalism. She considered that La Via Campesina should strengthen its struggle in certain aspects such as food sovereignty.
Deo said peasant farming cools off the planet, it is a way to tackle the climate crisis, one of the many current global crisis. She warned about the process of land grabbing carried out by agribusiness.

Meanwhile, the MNCI activist also referred to the situation in her country, especially in Santiago del Estero. “In Argentina, we are facing the rule of agribusiness and the extractivist model, which has its own rules. We need to keep fighting, to keep organizing to put an end to it. We are exposing our bodies in the territories, in the different spaces where we think we can make a difference”.

The leader urged to “stop immediately” the extractivist model and the model of agribusiness “that is destroying our culture, our form of production, our food, food sovereignty, nature. Otherwise, the future generations will not be able to have ‘a good living’”, she concluded.

Photo: Vía Campesina.

(CC) 2013 Real World Radio

Messages

Who are you?
Your post

This form accepts SPIP shortcuts [->url] {{bold}} {italic} <quote> <code> and the HTML code <q> <del> <ins>. To create paragraphs, simply leave blank lines.

Close

Friend of the Earth

Real World Radio 2003 - 2018 | All the material published here is licensed under Creative Commons (Attribution Share Alike). The site is created with Spip, free software specialized in web publications. Done with love.