March 25 – April 4, 2012 Co-sponsored by Nicaragua Center for Community Action (NICCA) & Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy Since 1989 NICCA has enthusiastically supported Programa Campesino a Campesino (PCaC), a project of Nicaragua’s National Union of Farmers and Ranchers (UNAG). PCaC is a part of the world-wide Via Campesino movement, which…
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Colombia, eco-solidarity, James Patrick Jordan, Labor, News
Interview with Eberto Diaz Montes, President of FENSUAGRO (United National Federation of Peasant Farmers and Farm Workers), Colombia
This interview was conducted with Eberto Díaz Montes by James Patrick Jordan, who also translated it. AFGJ: The National Encounter for the Land and for Peace has been a success in bringing together so many sectors of Colombian society to talk about peace and a political solution to the conflict. Do you believe that this…
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Honduras Accompaniment and Food Sovereignty Delegation
Date: January 6-15, 2012 Sponsored by: Alliance for Global Justice Since the June 2009 military coup, large landowners in the fertile Aguan Valley of Northern Honduras have used the military, police, and private security guards, to terrorize villages and expand their lucrative African palm plantations.
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Costa Rica Bans Depleted Uranium Weapons
By Carol Marujo (Dr. Marujo, a US citizen living in Costa Rica, is a freelance writer, a peace activist and a member of the Friends Peace Center and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.) Costa Rica became the world’s second country to ban depleted uranium weapons on June 9, 2011. President Laura Chinchilla…