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Irish working group on Food Sovereignty
The colonized are now the colonizers - Irish companies involved in large scale land acquisitions overseas
***Groups across Ireland organize activities to mark 17th April, International Day of Peasant Struggle of Via Campesina
***Irish company involved in landgrabbing
***30,000 hectares of publicly owned land now privatized in Serbia by Irish investors
Over the last ten years foreign governments and private firms have been increasingly investing and acquiring large surfaces of fertile land in other countries - especially in Africa and Asia - but also in Latin America and in Eastern Europe, for the purpose of agricultural production and export.
TNT Second Anniversary of the assassinations of Bety Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola
Venue: LASC, 5 Merrion Row, Dublin 2
Date: Friday 27th of April 2012,
Time: 6.30pm
Friday 27th of April 2012, will mark two years since the date of the armed ambush on the caravan carrying humanitarian aid to the men, women, and children of the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca.
AMARC asks for an urgent interventation of the Freedom of expression and Indigenous peoples rapporteurs in defense of the Mapuche radios
Complete report in Spanish attached
Santiago de Chile, April 2nd, 2012. AMARC Chile realized an observer mission on Mapuche community media and radios' freedom of expression, realized in Araucania and Los Rios regions, Chile, from January 25 to 27 2012.
As a result of this mission, the network published a report asking for an urgent intervention of the Freedom of expression and Indigenous peoples rapporteurs in defense of those radios. The request is included in the results report.
Among the requests done to the UN Rapporteurs for the freedom of expression and opinion and for Indigenous peoples' rights, as well as to the Rapporteur of the Organization of American States (OAS), there is to take care of the situation in which are living the Mapuche women communicators as a result of the exercise of the right to communicate.
LAW DUBLIN Event: Tales and Crafts for Children in Spanish
Venue: Charleville Mall Library, North Strand, Dublin 1
Date: Friday, 20th April
Time: 3.00pm
Come along and take part!
ECOFONDO Food Sovereignty Campaign (Soberanía Alimentaria)
A video(in Spanish) about Food Sovereignty Campaign made by ECOFONDO Colombia, a LASC partner.
"La campaña SALSA es una iniciativa por la defensa de la soberanía, la seguridad y la autonomía alimentaria que agrupa diversas organizaciones ambientalistas, comunitarias, campesinas, de pueblos indígenas y afro descendientes en Colombia."
Books From L to Z
LAST RESORTS (cod 41)
Polly Patullo
"Based on extensive interviews,this book looks at the mega-industry of tourism - the cruise ships, all-inclusive, package holidays, and yacht charters - and the way in which it affects local people throughout the Caribbean."
Books from A to K
AFRO CUBA. AN ANTHOLOGY OF CUBAN WRITING ON RACE, POLITICS AND CULTURE (cod 02)
Pedro Perez-Sarduy and Jean Stubbes
"What is it like to be black in Cuba? Does racism exist in a revolutionary society which claims to have abolished it?..."
