Irish Workers Take a Stand
Irish activists have shut down Dublin Port in protest of the Israeli attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla and the abduction of its crews.
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On the 16th of October, the International Day of Action for People’s Food Sovereignty and Against Transnational Corporations, La Via Campesina mobilized its regional and local organizations, allies, social movements, and collectives in defense of life, healthy and sovereign food for the people, and the rights of millions of peasants.
Mistigram: it’s National #Dictionary and Learn-A-Word Day today, maternal fornicators! This #ANSIart illustration (or depiction) of a dictionary (or lexicon) was drawn (or delineated) by AdeptApril.
Am 16. Oktober ist der große Welternährungstag / World Food Day / Welthungertag: https://www.baldwald.de/umwelttage.html
Nachdem der Welthunger ein Jahrzehnt lang stetig gesunken war, stieg die Zahl der unterernährten Menschen von 777 Millionen (2015) auf 815 Millionen (2016). Damit sind 11 Prozent der Weltbevölkerung betroffen.
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Organized by the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC), the conference served as a platform for small-scale farmers, peasants and agricultural workers to demand a fair Minimum Support Price (MSP) and to protest the country’s growing shift towards corporate farming.
The relationship between peasant women, water, and forests with land cultivation is ancient. Their ancestral knowledge and practices contribute to the preservation of biomes, forests, springs, and agrobiodiversity.
At the 6th Annual National Organic Week convened by the Eastern and Southern Africa Small-Scale Farmers’ Forum (ESAFF), participants praised the National Organic Agriculture Policy (NOAP) and further appreciated the efforts towards the development of the National Agroecology Strategy (NAS).
“The regulation of Common Market Organisation (CMO) must be the central issue in the upcoming reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The only way the CAP will be able to meet its numerous objectives is by ensuring markets function fairly and making sure all peasant-farmers can earn a decent income through fair prices”, says ECVC – the European Coordination Via Campesina.
From the global peasantry and the global movement for Food Sovereignty, we firmly believe in the need for a systemic transformation that protects our symbiotic relationship with Mother Earth, guarantees social justice, peace, and a comprehensive agrarian reform that ensures we can live with dignity, free from poverty and hunger.
In 1845, Edgar Allen Poe gave the first public reading of The Raven in his home town of Boston. Most of the audience walked out.
10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 16 October:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/10/16-october.html
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