Peasants Worldwide Rise up Against Monsanto

[Simon Fairlie]

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> dear all
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> This is an important piece of background to the fresh attempts here  
> in UK to reverse the public's rejection of GM, using world hunger  
> as the justification (1 b people now suffering from hunger and  
> malnutrition).
>
> best wishes
>
> Bill Grayson
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> Peasants Worldwide Rise up Against Monsanto, GMOs
> La Via Campesina carries out Global Day of Action against Monsanto
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> (Mexico, 16 October 2009) Today, International World Food Day, as  
> declared by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the  
> United Nations, La Via Campesina is mobilizing globally along with  
> allies in an overwhelming expression of outright rejection of  
> Monsanto and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), in the name of  
> food sovereignty.
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> In the United States today, protests and teach-ins against Monsanto  
> are taking place in Maine and Wisconsin.  In Brazil, Via Campesina  
> members are carrying out actions in the headquarters of Monsanto  
> and Syngenta. In Europe, where nine countries have prohibited GMOs,  
> Via Campesina organized an anti-Monsanto brigade traveling  
> throughout the region.  In India, thousands of farmers and allies  
> are carrying out hunger strikes and occupying lands. Actions are  
> being carried out in at least 20 countries and all nine regions  
> where La Via Campesina is present.
> Meanwhile, world leaders are preparing to meet at the FAO World  
> Food Summit in Rome in November, where the powers of global  
> governance and agribusiness will utilize the desperation of  
> starving nations to accelerate the expansion of GMO-based  
> agriculture throughout the world.  The Obama administration’s  
> proposal to dedicate over a billion dollars of emergency funding to  
> developing countries for agriculture, and the U.S. government’s  
> Global Food Security Initiative are thinly veiled efforts to this end.
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> Peasants, landless workers, migrants, indigenous peoples and  
> consumers, identified transnational corporations, especially  
> Monsanto, which, together with Syngenta, Dupont and Bayer control  
> over half of the world’s seeds, and are thus the principal enemies  
> of peasant sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty for all  
> peoples. La Via Campesina is in a daily struggle to protect native  
> seeds, patrimony of humanity, from corporations and patents.   
> Today, October 16, the strength of the movement is pushing the  
> public opinion to reject Monsanto’s take-over of the food system.
> “It’s time for all civil society to recognize the gravity of this  
> situation, global capital should not control our food, nor make  
> decisions behind closed doors. The future of our food, the  
> protection of our resources and especially our seeds, are the right  
> of the people,” said Dena Hoff, coordinator of Via Campesina North  
> America.
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> Globalize Hope!! Globalize the Struggle!!
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> Interviews and information:
> Dena Hof, United States +  1 406-939-1839 (in English)
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> Alberto Gomez, Mexico + 525541777846 (en español)
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> Isabelle Delforge
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