An international peasant workshop billed “Global Landgrabbing, Genuine Land Reform and Human Rights” concluded that lands in underdeveloped countries are being grabbed, at an alarming rate, by multinational corporations to maximize profits, thereby displacing thousands of communities and denying peasants their right to the land they till.
By GERRY ALBERT CORPUZ
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Foreign activists who took part in an international peasant workshop billed “Global Landgrabbing, Genuine Land Reform and Human Rights,” held in Manila on July 19 to 21 are alarmed over the spate of government-sanctioned landgrabbing cases in the Philippines and other underdeveloped countries involving multinational corporations.
The workshop on
global landgrabbing was attended by 41 participants representing
people’s movements and international solidarity groups from 10
countries: the USA, Peru, Spain, The Netherlands, Denmark, Indonesia,
India, Canada, Tanzania, and host country the Philippines.Workshop
organizer Angie Ipong of UMA said the three speakers RahmatAjiguna,
secretary general of AGRA or the Alliance for Agrarian Reform
Movement in Indonesia (Indonesia), MoosaAzmi of Asian Bridge (India)
and Rafael Mariano, national chairperson of KMP presented cases and
the impact of global landgrabbing in their respective countries and
how this neo-liberal globalization policy has summarily denied and
violated, in sweeping and escalating fashion, the peasants’ quest
for genuine land reform, agrarian justice and human rights.
The organizers and participants to the international
workshop agreed on the following impact of global landgrabbing to
farmers and rural people:
• Wholesale denial of peasant rights to
genuine land reform, agrarian justice and social emancipation
•
Global landgrabbing and resource grab exacerbate the century old
problem of landlessness, agricultural backwardness and rural
maldevelopment in underdeveloped countries.
• It promotes red
carpet massacre of peasant and rural peoples’ livelihood and put
the resources and the environment in corporate control and mercy of
transnational exploiters in cahoots with their puppets and minions in
the government
• Global landgrabbing intensifies the export
oriented, import dependent character of the economy of underdeveloped
countries further reducing the working people into modern-day slaves
of the empire, while their resources are divided among members of the
foreign monopoly syndicate and their respective cartels and thrusts
•
Global landgrabbing destroys the people’s environment, violates the
people’s national patrimony and sovereignty
• Global land
grabbing promotes mass murder of the sovereign rights of the working
people to food and decent life
• Global landgrabbing is a global
menace arising from neo-liberal globalization and the desperate act
of the US and the rest of the ruling criminal monopolies across the
world to resolve the lingering crisis of global capitalism by passing
the burden to the people of underdeveloped economies.
• Global
landgrabbing is being met by peasants’ and people’s resistance.
The legitimate struggle for land, justice and human rights is also
met with state violence. Massive deployment of reactionary and puppet
troops are done in global landgrabbing areas.
• They (local armed
forces) act as security agents of global landgrabbers, militarizing
communities and terrorizing peasants and the people in the name of
landgrabbing and resource grab and for the sake of imperialist
plunder.
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