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.”
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For more information, please contact:
APC SecretariatRm. 23, 2/F, 35 Visayas Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines
E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected]Telephone: +632-3793083
Website: www.asianpeasant.org
