APC & ILPS kick off 5-mo Asia-wide Peasants' Caravan for Land & Livelihood
Published: 16 Jul 2009
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Asian Peasant Coalition | 16 July 2009

At the height of global financial crisis, state terrorism and widespread land grabbing of huge tracts of agricultural land in poor Asian and African nations, the militant Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) and International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) Commission 6 kicked-off a “Five--month Asia-wide Peasants’ Caravan for Land and Livelihood” that will commence on July 21 to November 2009 in ten countries in Asia such as Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand and Sri Lanka. The theme of the Peasants’ Caravan is “Stop Global Land Grabbing! Struggle for Genuine Agrarian Reform and Peoples’ Food Sovereignty.”

Download the 12-page brochure here

For more information, please contact:

APC Secretariat

Rm. 23, 2/F, 35 Visayas Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines

E-mail: apc_secretariat@yahoo.com and roda_g04@yahoo.com

Telephone: +632-3793083

Website: www.asianpeasant.org
Source: APC