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Remember the farmers' strike?

Several reports over the protests of the "campo argentino"
1 - We, the members of indigenous communities, peasants organized territories, we report that the Earth is still a good life full of diverse, where humanity and people want to develop ways of life.

2 - Large agribusiness corporations chains being imposed on the peoples and countries a model of food production whose sole purpose is profit and concentration of wealth in few hands with the active complicity of governments, employers and, if of "farmers' strike" of the four members of Argentina's agricultural entities.

3 - The double discourse of the leaders of the FAA, has led to an impasse. Practices reproduce the model of plunder and pollution of both land, territories, as well as his lying claim to represent the most genuine struggles of peasant movements in Argentina.

4 - This neoliberal model, plunder and pollution, reproduce new forms of colonization and genocide. What did these entities when Menem's neoliberal stage wildest disappeared more than 200 households in agricultural production?

5 - What do those have done and agricultural entities to the killings, prison, persecution, torture and paramilitary confrontation with suffering and bulldozers are thousands and thousands of families of indigenous peoples and peasants?

6 - They say do not stop the traffic and not to the disappearance of small and medium producers, but some entrepreneurs and producers have hired thugs to leave small and medium producers are members of these entities.

7 - We rescue something positive from this stoppage of agricultural institutions and their members took off their mask of fighters for a model of dignified country, just and for all. Showed its true face: they think the country is for the few who obey the dictates of big transnational food corporations.

8 - We agree on something: money for all taxes should be controlled by all, because all of pay taxes in Argentina, not only the producers and entrepreneurs in the field. We propose mechanisms for direct participation of both how to produce wealth and the distribution thereof.

9 - As a first step of agreements and consensus suggest that the extra withholding to ensure they survive to serve small and medium farmers, artisans, artists, athletes, etc. These funds to prepare the draft Comprehensive Agrarian Reform to Food Sovereignty. Estatic exports, which are not in the hands of large corporations.

10 - Via Campesina say that the answer to the global crisis of food prices: The Family Farm Can feed the world sustainably. Food can not be subject to unlimited profits. Biodiversity is the wealth of nations.

11 - Farmers' organizations, members of Via Campesina, declared that all free trade agreements, both bilateral and bi-regional free trade whether they Treaties, Free Trade Agreements or Economic Partnership Agreements, the same nature. These lead to the plundering of natural assets and only benefit multinational corporations at the expense of all the peoples of the world and the environment.


MOCASE Ministry of Communication of VC

The Meaning Of Spandau Ballet

That does not speak (Doing a bit of memory) Floreal

280 000 Argentina live in large families of 22 indigenous peoples, and 220 thousand peasant families with at least 1.5 million people. They produce soy or subscribe to agribusiness, plant food and raise animals for consumption and have a special relationship with the land, not seen as a means for business, are understood as part of it, its culture, its history and a common good of future generations. These two central actors, indigenous peoples and peasants, were systematically excluded from the debate last month, where the four most traditional and conservative institutions of the Argentine countryside made a lockout is unprecedented in this country.

Rural Society (SRA), Rural Confederation (CRA), Confederation of Agricultural Interco (Coninagro) and Agrarian Federation (FAA) were mobilized and food shortage major cities for one main objective: increasing profitability, blessed by the price for soy. The farmers, large or small, at no time were at risk of economic loss, but (after a state tax measure) were on the verge of earning less money than expected.

For weeks, protests and verbal crosses of varying colors, traditional institutions and the government kept silent about the following topics: Business

. In the global agribusiness market, Argentina is seen as a model student. In 1997, Argentina were harvested eleven million tons of transgenic soybeans and used six million hectares. Ten years later, in 2007 the harvest reached 47 million tonnes, comprising 16.6 million hectares. It is the third largest exporter of soybeans (after the United States and Brazil) and the first oil. Exports of soybeans and soybean products in 2007 were for 11,000 million dollars. Argentina no longer produces food and the country can not eat soy. The demand comes from Europe and China, where it is used for animal feed.

Evictions. The agribusiness model based on transgenic soya evicted in the last ten years, 300 thousand families of farmers and indigenous people, who were to the slums of large cities.

sockets. In just four years, and the advance of soy plantations, ceased to be 1,108,669 hectares of forests, 277 hectares per year, equivalent to 760 per day, 32 acres per hour.

concentration. The current agricultural model, based on export-intensive production, producing higher concentrations. The last agricultural census confirms ten percent of so-called "farms" larger focus 78 percent of the land, while 60 percent of the smallest farms are divided only five percent of the country's arable land. Unemployment

. Thousand hectares of soybean can be handled by only four people. A dairy farm in that area requires, at least twenty workers. If that piece of land was in the hands of indigenous peasant families, would work for 350 people.

Health. Argentine fields were sprayed last year with 165 million liters of glyphosate, an agrochemical reported to cause birth defects in newborns, spontaneous abortions, cancer and death. The allegations suggest the higher seed the world: Monsanto.

Companies. Companies with higher profitability soybean (exporters and suppliers of inputs) are Monsanto, Dupont, Syngenta, Bayer, Nidera, Cargill, Bunge, Dreyfus, Dow and BASF, among others. None of them were questioned in the recent conflict.

Farm. 1.3 million people work in the field. The general salary is 1250 pesos per month. He is considered by the State, the lowest paid workers, who have the worst working conditions and the most exploited. Yet they are paid with food and substandard housing, in conditions close to slavery. In addition, 75 percent of them are "black" without employment contract, health insurance, retirement contributions or accident insurance.

differences. During the lockout, was used to spearhead the status of a "small farmer with 100 acres. In purely economic terms, each hectare can be rented for 200 pesos per month, 20 thousand dollars every thirty days, 240 thousand dollars a year just to rent their land. If the owner is "small producer", how a family should be called a peasant or Indian with twenty acres, one hundred goats and gardens for subsistence?

Future. The agribusiness industry is in Argentina next two goals: to introduce your business ten million hectares (to the detriment of family farmers) and biofuels (the creation of fuel from soybeans), a business seeking to build on four million hectares of rural and indigenous. Another

model. The Indian National Peasant Movement (MNCI), composed of 15,000 families in seven provinces, was not included in the discussions. The MNCI, with similarities to the Landless Movement and the Mexican Zapatistas, fosters the organization of the poor and marginalized of the Argentine countryside, the rural base of the pyramid. Two of its key proposals are comprehensive agrarian reform and food sovereignty, which implies a changing agricultural model. Merits of the four traditional institutions, and the government would rather not talk.

* Peasant Movement of Santiago del Estero, Via Campesina. Formed by 9000 families from the mountain, living in what they produce and reject the soy model.

Released April 25, 2008.

4 Wheeler Gets Repossessed

A book. A story. "Pilgrims of Saint Francis" ¿Volver a

"Eight hundred years after San Francisco and his colleagues undertook the journey from Assisi to Rome to ask Pope Innocent III approved the Rule, the Catalans and Samuel Ignatius is ready to go the same way. As the Bishop Augustine Cortez in the prologue, this book is worth the experience it describes, which is like a parable of life. "


shortly announce the date of presentation of the book, which will be this September.

"I can not change the wind direction, pero fit the candles to always arrive at my destiny." JD

Chances Shiny Umbreon

créer? Die Schlechte

An article on Israel, to feed the monumental anger takes them some when I talk about this issue. They said that of the colla de Sabadell - sentence recovered by Salvador Dalí is one if anyone does not have an army of enemies. And indeed, the most militant enemies and trivial that one can get in Catalonia are those who dedicate their lives to hate Israel, with the same intensity they manipulate, lie and invent a parallel history of the conflict. Some have reached the point of delirium, which, from positions anarcoateo-anti-ultra-left, just defend theocratic authorities, and supporters of the worst tyrants of the systems, which is based on the absolute control of citizens. It is an ideological mind-boggling journey, though not the first time, from positions of progress, defend retrograde ideas. Someday sociologists - or brainy anthropologists study devoted to the mental pie, about Middle East, have suffered these one-eyed militant solidarity.

Beyond these visionaries blind, the Arab-Israeli move back piece, as always in American hands. All presidents United States has dreamed of being the architects of peace. Of course, as always has been, the mere announcement of a negotiation process has been accompanied by a bloody attack by Palestinian organizations, consistent with the historic phrase: "The Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to miss every opportunity ". Caught between violent amorality Arafat - he never wanted to be president of a Palestinian state, but the eternal hero of the resistance: "There will finish as Sadat," he said, and Islamic fundamentalism, democratic Palestinians have had few nails to to be caught. However, despite the enormous problem posed by violent two-legged north and south, Hamas and Hezbollah, something keeps hope alive: the role of Mahmud Abbas . Of course, Benjamin Netanyahu is a tough, but all who have advanced in the process, from Begin to Sharon, were hawks. Abbas is too, but it is the first Palestinian leader who aspires to fly the UN flag in , and this marks the turning. The two leaders could proceed effectively. The problem, however, is always the same. Do you want peace the rest of the occupants invited himself to the tragic party? Do you want Iran, Syria, international jihadism, the tyrannies of the area? Because despite the naivety of Obama supine - or your interested hurry, "the ficha no se mueve entre Jerusalén y si no pasa por Ramala Tehran. Por eso tenemos como aperitivo de cualquier negociación asesinatos. Y por eso mismo, hay que tener esperanza, pero, desgraciadamente, hay que ponerla en formol.

Pilar Rahola
III / IX / MMX - La Vanguardia

"I can not change the wind direction but, fit the candles to always arrive at my destiny." JD