Eco-solidarity

UPDATE: Colombian Unionist Maribel Oviedo Set Free Without Charges!

Maribel Oviedo (in center) leads delegates from the Alliance for Global Justice and the National Lawyers Guild to visit peasant farmers in the village of Maracaibo in Tolima, Colombia. We have received news from the Colombian human rights group, Lazos de Dignidad, that peasant union leader Maribel Oviedo has been released without charges.  Maribel had…

War Against Peasant Farmers Heats Up in Honduras

This piece was originally published in Upside Down World. “There is a war here in the Aguán,” says Juan, surveying the distant fields of African palm from the vantage point of his recently planted field of beans and corn. A young Honduran farmer, wearing a beaten cowboy hat and a bandana bearing the name “National…

Return to Rigores, Honduras

By Chuck Kaufman On Jan. 9, 2012 an Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ) delegation of US and Canadians visited the farming community of Rigores, Honduras in the fertile Aguan Valley near the country’s Caribbean Coast. It was a far different visit than was experienced by a previous AfGJ delegation just six months earlier. On that…

1000 Durbans for Climate Justice!

This alert was originally sent by the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance. GGJ and IEN will be sending off a small and fierce delegation to the 17th “Conference of Polluters” climate negotiations in Durban South Africa next week. GGJ and La Via Campesina North America are calling for a Global Week of Action for Climate Justice,…

A Sustainable Agriculture Delegation to Nicaragua

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…

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…