Call of La Via Campesina, 11th of May 2007

G8 feeds the corporations, Join us in Rostock to feed alternatives!
The heads of state and government of the world's eight wealthiest and most
powerful countries will meet from June 6-8 in Heiligendamm on the Baltic Sea in
Northeastern Germany. These eight governments decide and implement neo-liberal
policies that increase the number of hungry people in the world, that bring war
in most of the regions, that deepen the environmental crisis and that create
social unrest worldwide. Small-scale farmers, peasant and landless workers
worldwide are among the first victims of these policies. The trade
liberalization and privatisation policies they impose steal our resources and
our knowledges and make it increasingly difficult for us to make a living from
agriculture. Their environmental irresponsibility destroys the biodiversity and
the natural wealth we depend on for our livelihoods. Among the 854 millions of
hungry people in the world, three-quarters are rural people. The millions of
migrants who are denied their basic rights and of unemployed urban poor living
in shanty towns are our brothers and sisters who have been chased away from
their land. We believe that the current agricultural crisis, that goes along
with a huge environmental, social and cultural crisis, is not a fatality. Food
sovereignty, agrarian reform, re-localization of the food production and
sustainable peasant-based agriculture are genuine alternatives to the
neo-liberal impasse.
We will come to Rostock to demand the right for the new generation to become
farmers! We will come to Rostock to say that farmers worldwide, not
transnational companies, are able to feed the world! We will come to Rostock to
demand Food sovereignty and Agrarian reform now!
We call farmers in Europe and worldwide, young people and all citizens, to join
the mobilisations in Rostock to protest against the G8 and call for
alternatives.
June 2: International protest rally

June 3: Action day on agriculture

• 10:00 Demonstration against GMOs, supermarkets and corporate-controlled
  agriculture

• 18:30 Youth Assembly for the Right to land and to farming, Mau Club, Rostock

June 5-7: Alternative Summit June 6: Blockades
End Corporate control over our food! Access to land and agriculture for the Youth !

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