The colonized are now the colonizers - Irish companies involved in large scale land acquisitions overseas

***Groups across Ireland organize activities to mark 17^th 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.

It is not a matter of being optimistic or pessimistic, knowing or not knowing elementary things, of being responsible or not for events. Those who would like to be thought of as politicians should be thrown onto the trash heap of history when, as the norm goes, they have no idea about everything or almost everything related to it in that activity.

Venue: Central Hotel, Exchequer Street

Date: Tuesday 25th October

Time: 7.00 pm

Bloom Movement for Global Justice and Friends of the Earth invite you to a meeting with Patrick Bond, a leading scholar-activist based in South Africa, to discuss local and global struggles for climate, economic and social justice.