The Future of Food is PEOPLE-POWER(ED): Five Key Features of Today’s Global Food Crisis
A relentless and roiling global famine amid abundance is, if anything more than monopoly capitalism preying on the working peoples and the planet, a harbinger of upheavals and, ultimately, revolutions for a better future. At a glance: The current global food crisis, the largest one in modern history, is mainly caused and prolonged by colonial […]
Peoples’ struggles and solidarity, not UNFSS, will build just, equitable, healthy, and sustainable food systems | Stand for #OurFoodSystems Unity Statement
As the UN Food Systems Summit takes stock (the “UNFSS +2“) of what they have achieved in the past two years, one thing is clear: this platform that the monopoly corporations and their allies control will never truly address the structural roots of worldwide hunger and food insecurity. What they peddle is bound to deepen […]
Long live the Palestinian Resistance in Jenin! Hold US-Israel accountable for aerial bombardments in Palestine
The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) denounces Zionist Israel in the highest terms for its two-day large-scale incursion in Jenin City and the aerial raids in Gaza, just days after the Eid festival. The brutal on-ground assault and aerial bombardments of the refugee camp in Jenin left 12 youths dead, 143 injured, and 4000 […]
Global platform to monitor, campaign vs rural bombings
Groups call for solidarity, ask support from the international community Organizations from Pakistan, Myanmar, the Philippines, West Papua, Palestine, and India recently unveiled Silenced Suffering: Stop Rural Bombings, a solidarity and monitoring platform dedicated to addressing bombings in indigenous and rural communities. Farmers, indigenous peoples, and rights advocates led an online gathering last Friday to […]
[Communique] DEFEND THE RURAL DEFENDERS: Developing a monitoring framework for rural movements and human rights defenders in conflict areas
Date and time: May 30, 2023; 4:30-7:00 PM Manila Attendees: 30 people from the Philippines, West Papua, India, Pakistan, and Burma. Location: Zoom Meeting SUMMARY Defend the Rural Defenders was successful in initiating a dialogue between frontline rural human rights defenders and communities from Burma, the Philippines, Bangsamoro, West Papua, and Palestine. Observers and […]
75 years since Nakba, 75 years of resistance: No matter what, the Palestinian people shall return!
On May 15, Day of Return, we mark 75 years of the Palestinian struggle to reclaim their land against the US-backed Zionist regime of Israel. Throughout the years, the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty has consistently expressed its support and admiration for the militancy of the Palestinian people in the face of the occupation. Injustice […]
Groups raise alarm over EDCA sites, rise of rights abuses in PH province
US bases to exacerbate already dire rights situation, land grabbing in Province of Cagayan says int’l, local groups On the 9th anniversary of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), international and Philippine organizations warn the public of a greater escalation of human rights abuses and land grabbing in the province of Cagayan amid hosting US […]
Rural peoples unite for food, land, and climate justice! | Day of the Landless 2023 unity statement
Rural peoples unite for food, land, and climate justice! Build our future without hunger, dispossession, and destruction! Through reckless plunder for profits, the world’s biggest banks, investment firms, financial speculators, and corporations from the wealthiest countries – the rulers of imperialism – conniving with national governments and the local elite of the poor nations have […]
Rural peoples in Global South to mobilize 1 million for food, land and climate justice
Rural peoples movements from Asia, Latin America and Africa today launched the Global Peoples’ Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice–an awareness-raising and mobilization campaign to demand governments to address the interconnected issues of hunger, land and resource grabs, and the climate crisis, culminating at the United Nations Summit of the Future in September 2024. […]