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On Working Toward Peace
essay by Ingrid Washinawatok el-Issa
from the architects of peace website

The roots of war and violence go deep, into the earth herself. As an indigenous woman, I wish to simply state that until we make peace with earth, there will be no peace in the human community. Please allow me to explain.

As native peoples of the hemisphere, we have historically been the victims of violence and continue to be plagued by injustice and inequality. In our history we have had to go to war to protect our lands, as peace would simply mean our enslavement and extermination. …

Colombians Gather for the 2nd Permanent Tribunal of the People
Vanessa Burgos, http://upsidedownworld.org
March 14, 2007

As Bush made his way around Latin America promoting neoliberal policies and free-trade in the region, Colombia’s poor closed the 2nd convocation of the Permanent Tribunal of the People, showing they have a different vision of democracy.

On February 26th and 27th, community members from Colombia’s Choco region, along with other national and international organizations and NGOs, gathered in Cacarica, Colombia, for the second in a series of trials that are part of the Permanent Tribunal of the People, a process due to culminate next year in …

Dispatch: Leaders of the “Food Sovereignty” Movement Meet in Mali
By Anna Lappé, gnn.tv
February 25

Activists from five continents stand up for the small farmer at the International Food Forum

I am sitting in the “media headquarters” – a squat concrete building in the middle of a dusty compound – at the first gathering of social movements around the world fighting for “food sovereignty.” I’m staying here with more than 500 other delegates from five continents and eighty countries about two hours outside of Bamako, Mali.

When I told people I was coming to this forum not many people in the States

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New Left Review 9, May–June 2001
What is ‘the anti-globalization movement’? [1] I put the phrase in quote-marks because I immediately have two doubts about it. Is it really a movement? If it is a movement, is it anti-globalization? Let me start with the first issue. We can easily convince ourselves it is a movement by talking it into existence at a forum like this—I spend far too much time at them—acting as if we can see it, hold it in our hands. Of course, we have seen it—and we know it’s come back in Quebec, and on the US–Mexican border …

Food sovereignty is the peoples, Countries or State Unions RIGHT to define their agricultural and food policy, without any dumping vis-a-vis third countries. Food sovereignty includes :

prioritizing local agricultural production in order to feed the people, access of peasants and landless people to land, water, seeds, and credit. Hence the need for land reforms, for fighting against GMOs ((Genetically Modified Organisms), for free access to seeds, and for safeguarding water as a public good to be sustainably distributed.

the right of farmers, peasants to produce food and the right of consumers to be able to decide what they consume, and …