October 2019 e-Newsletter

IN THIS ISSUE: Judge Suspends Eviction || Sustainable Organic Farming in Zambia || Gender Diversity in Food || Remembering Pandu || Charting Haiti's Future || Context in Brazil

VICTORY! Justice Suspends Eviction Order of Paulo Freire Training Center

Judge Manoel Erhardt suspended the eviction order for the Paulo Freire Training Center in the Normandia Landless Workers Movement settlement. Some 850 Grassroots International supporters mobilized to send letters to Brazilian officials to stop the eviction. In this statement, our partner the Landless Workers Movement offers thanks for the international solidarity.

What is Organic Farming If Not Sustainable?

What is organic farming? More people are avoiding pesticides and GMOs, but that doesn't mean organic foods are always sustainable for the Earth or farmers. Our partners and allies, like in southern Africa, are teaching a different model: agroecology.

Coming Out! Gender Diversity in the Food System

The struggle for the rights of LGBTTIQ persons is largely silenced in the broader human rights movement, and in the struggle for food sovereignty.

Remembering Pandu

The forest people of India lost a warrior, and we all lost a brother in struggle, when Kajuam Pandu Dora died in July.

Charting Haiti's Future

The Patriotic Forum gathered at the Lakay Center in Papaye to discuss the major problems facing Haiti and charted a vision for future organizing.

Contemporary Challenges for the Working Class & Peasantry in Brazil

João Pedro Stedile outlines the issues leading up to the Brazilian coup, life under Bolsonaro's rule, and a vision for a new agrarian program in Brazil. The problems of the Brazilian people and their way forward are bound with the world system and international political forces.