[E-rundbrief] Info 1112 - Rio+20 - Peasants against Green Capitalism

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief - Info 1112 - La Via Campesina: Peasants of the world 
mobilize against green capitalism in Rio - UN-conference Rio+20.

Bad Ischl, 17.6.2012

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Peasants of the world mobilize against green capitalism in Rio 	

Friday, 15 June 2012 15:38

La Via Campesina

http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1284:peasants-of-the-world-mobilize-against-green-capitalism-in-rio&catid=48:-climate-change-and-agrofuels&Itemid=75

(Rio de Janeiro, 14 June, 2012) About 3000 farmers from the 
international movement La Via Campesina will mobilize to say NO to the 
commodification of life and nature at the Peoples Summit for Social 
and Environmental Justice and in Defense of the Commons.

The peoples Summit is a space for discussion, debate and construction 
of alternative proposals by the global civil society, social movements 
and peoples collective organizations. La Via Campesina has been 
actively participating in the construction of this activity in order 
to denounce the false solutions of the same failed economic model that 
is now being dressed in green under the name “green economy”. La Via 
Campesina is instead promoting peasants sustainable agriculture as a 
true solution to the global climatic and environmental crises.

The delegation of La Via Campesina will participate in various 
plenaries as well as the global mobilization that will take place on 
the 20th of June concentrating at the junction of the roads Av. Rio 
Branco and Av Presidente Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. La Via Campesina 
has been actively participating in the planning of the Peoples Summit 
that will take place as a parellel activity to the UN conference on 
Sustainable Development or Rio + 20. This meeting marks the twentieth 
aniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and 
Development (Rio 92 or Eco 92).

The most important political space in the Peoples Summit will be the 
Peoples Permanant Assembly that will organize around three main 
themes: The denouncement of the structural causes of global poverty 
and environmental crisis as well as the new forms of the reproduction 
of capital; Peoples real solutions and new paradigms; and the agendas, 
campaigns and mobilizations of anticapitalist struggles after Rio +20.

La Via Campesina is an international movement that brings together 
about 200 million peasants, small and medium-sized producers, 
landless, rural workers and indigenous people from around the world. 
LVC advocates sustainable small scale peasant's agriculture as a means 
of promoting social justice and dignity. The organization brings 
together more than 150 organizations in about 70 countries of Africa, 
Asia, Europe and America.

Link to document - La Via Campesina's position on Rio+20

To facilitate interviews with peasants from different continents we 
have available a list of spokespersons of La Via Campesina as well as 
the overall agenda of the Summit.

PRESS CONTACTS:

Luiz Felipe Albuquerque – +55 (21) 6951-0341

Maria Mello – + 55 (61) 8239 5569

AGENDA:

17 - Morning and Afternoon: 5 Plenaries in the run up to the main 
Peoples Assembly that will discuss: Human Rights and justice; Commons; 
Food Soverignty; Extractionism; Other Paradigms.

18: Day of Womens Mobilization

18: Day of mobilization against corporations

18 Morning: Self managed activities/discussions and mobilizations

18 Afternoon: 5 Plenaries before the main Peoples Assembly

19 Morning: Self managed activities/discussions and mobilizations

19 Afternoon: Assembly of the people – Structural Causes and False 
Solutions

20: Global Mobilization – Peoples Summit for Social and Environmental 
Justice against the mercantilization of Life and in defense of the 
Commons (concentrating at the junction of the roads Av. Rio Branco and 
Av Presidente Vargas in Rio de Janeiro)

Visit to the Vila Autodromo

Walk in the downtown area of Rio

21: DAY OF THE MOBILIZATION OF LA VIA CAMPESINA

21 Afternoon: Peoples Assembly – Our Solutions

22 Morning: Peoples Assembly – Agendas of People's Struggles and Campaigns

22 Afternoon: Cultural Closing Act

23: Evaluation

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