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Assassinat du leader syndical Pierre Alessandri en Corse : L’impunité doit cesser !

Secrétaire général de la Via Campagnola, syndicat agricole membre de la Confédération paysanne, Pierre Alessandri, a été assassiné. a été assassiné le 17 mars, au crépuscule, de deux balles mortelles dans le dos. Il n’y a pas eu de revendication.

Cet assassinat a eu lieu quelques semaines après que son syndicat soit devenu majoritaire en Corse suite aux élections aux Chambres d’Agriculture.

Pierre Alessandri dénonçait depuis des années avec force les dérives de l’agriculture corse.

Siégeant durant de nombreuses années en Safer – instance collective où se décide l’attribution du foncier – Pierre Alessandri n’a jamais cessé de dénoncer la spéculation sur les terres agricoles. « Il s’était aussi dressé courageusement contre les fraudes aux aides Pac, système corrompu qui permettait à quelques-uns de se remplir les poches. Il réclamait simplement un système juste pour tous les agriculteurs et agricultrices corses », témoigne Laurence Marandola de la Confédération paysanne.

« Cette tragédie s’inscrit dans un climat de pratiques mafieuses et corruptives qui gangrènent le territoire corse et mettent à mal l’État de droit », estime l’association française Anticorruption Anticor, qui ajoute : « Combattre pour l’intérêt général ne devrait pas coûter la vie. »

Il avait déjà fait l’objet de nombreuses menaces et, en 2019, sa distillerie avait été détruite par un incendie criminel. Il avait alors déclaré à la presse : « Nous agriculteurs, on est maintenant quasiment en première ligne sur la spéculation foncière. Et lorsqu’on se met un peu en travers, globalement y a une personnalisation systématique de la part d’un système ’’mafieux’’, d’un système “occulte”” qui est très efficace pour ce qui est de, on va employer un terme un peu fort, “terroriser” un certain nombre d’acteurs économiques. »

Ces assassinat a provoqué de nombreuses réactions de soutien, mais le gouvernement français s’est très peu manifesté, à l’exception de la Ministre de l’Agriculture. La Confédération paysanne s’indigne de l’absence de réaction d’autres membres du gouvernement. Ni Gérald Darmanin, ministre de la Justice, ni Bruno Retailleau, ministre de l’Intérieur, n’ont fait de déclaration à ce sujet.

« On est face à l’assassinat d’un responsable syndical en activité, et on n’a aucune réaction publique. Ce silence est effarant. Il n’y a eu aucune parole dans l’hémicycle », dénonce Laurence Marandola. « Son assassinat est un coup porté à la démocratie, à la parole libre, à l’engagement en faveur d’une terre que tant d’intérêts contraires cherchent à accaparer. Il faut que l’enquête avance et aboutisse. » Cet assassinat est le quatrième depuis le début de l’année en Corse.

Source : Basta! le 25 mars 2025 https://basta.media/silence-Etat-meurtre-Pierre-Alessandri-agriculteur-syndicaliste-militant-anti-mafia-en-Corse

Artisanal fishing is more profitable and sustainable than industrial fishing.

A scientific study initiated by the Bloom association confirms that industrial fishing is a direct threat to our planet and our economy. The "Changer de cap" report reminds us of this with force and rigor: it creates fewer jobs and generates less wealth than artisanal fishing, while monopolizing public subsidies and natural resources common to all mankind.

It's time to open our eyes and put an end to this aberration! Let's promote small-scale fishing, a genuine engine for job creation and sustainable economic development. Let's fight for a future where oceans and workers are not sacrificed on the altar of industrial profits!

To find out more: https: //theconversation.com/pourquoi-subventionner-la-peche-industrielle-alors-que-la-peche-artisanale-est-plus-rentable-et-plus-durable-227512?utm_source=pocket-newtab-fr-fr

The "Changing Course" report:

The CGLTE OA will organize the next World Social Forum

The Convergence Globale des Luttes pour la Terre et l'Eau Ouest Africaine (CGLTE-OA), mobilized in Nepal for the World Social Forum 2024. At the end of the meeting of the International Council of the Mondia Social Forum, it obtained the organization of the next Forum in 2026.

This next forum in Africa will be an opportunity to unite social movements from the continent and elsewhere around a variety of issues, including climate change, insecurity in the Sahel, land grabbing and the plundering of natural resources, the situation of women in the informal sector, renewable energies, the environment, agriculture, the feminist struggle, political education, migration, etc.

In addition, a World Social Forum in West Africa will help to revive national and regional social dynamics that have seen significant political success in the past, such as the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs).

This relaunch will raise the profile of the alter-globalization movement and further entrench it in West Africa, and by extension, across the continent.

For more information: https: //m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid06Yc6nMH7XCvrELvHPBHFAdvneyHgPDFjTNJ72xWE69YLe2bJyVe4kiGEZhDf6fv5l&id=100080794666936&mibextid=Nif5oz

CONFÉDÉRATION PAYSANNE BLOCKS LACTALIS HEADQUARTERS

Around 200 farmers invaded and blocked the Lactalis group's head office in Laval for several hours. This is the first time the group's head office has been occupied by a farmers' union. The Confédération Paysanne is denouncing a lacto-cide and demanding a meeting with the three sole shareholders of Lactalis, namely CEO Emmanuel Besnier, his brother and his sister, to demand :

• an immediate review of dairy contracts,
• a ban on transactions below cost price for milk.

Lactalis is France's leading food company and the world's leading cheese maker, and its CEO is France's 6th richest man. This discreet multinational exerts colossal pressure on small-scale producers. Benefiting from a virtual monopoly, farmers are forced to sell at a loss, entering a spiral of despair from which some never escape. The "ogre" Lactalis' CV: pollution of multiple rivers, health scandals, concealment of information, large-scale tax evasion, whistleblower hunting, monopolization of entire villages...

Source: Soulèvements de la Terre Facebook page

For further information:

https://www.facebook.com/100078030375280/posts/407060311904978

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Message of solidarity from ROPPA to European farmers in struggle

ROPPA has published an open letter to European farmers and decision-makers.

"Our support and deep solidarity with West African farmers in your legitimate fight to defend a fundamental right of farmers: to live with dignity from a fair and rewarding remuneration for their work".

Read the full version of the letter :

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Members of the LUSUD association killed in Madagascar

The FLT has learned of the tragic death of three people fighting against the attacks on their land and their health in Madagascar. They were members of the LUSUD association, set up in 2023 to combat the environmental and health damage caused by the RIO TINTO QMM mining company in Tolagnaro-Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar. For over 10 years, the company has been pouring its untreated wastewater into rivers and lakes whose water is used daily by the population, including for drinking. Experts report high levels of aluminum, uranium and cadmium, as well as radioactive elements. In response to this threat to their lives, local residents have staged a number of blockades and demonstrations. In January 2023, an agreement on compensation and financial indemnification was signed between the mining company and 5,511 fishermen and usufructuaries. A large number of local residents denounced the compensation as being far below the losses and damage suffered, particularly in terms of the environment and health. The company emphasizes its innocence and the fact that it directly employs 2,000 people. In March 2022, dozens of fish were found dead on the surface of the weir, and the Minister for Water denounced the company's responsibility. The fight then intensified even further.

This rejection of the agreement led to the creation of the LUSUD association, which is calling for the suspension of the company's socio-environmental permit and operating license. It has filed a petition with the government, signed by more than 15,000 local residents, listing the serious environmental and human rights violations committed by the company. As Laurent Manjary, the association's general secretary, summed up, "We cannot exchange our lives for money".

This citizens' association has been severely repressed, with over 100 demonstrators arrested in July and some given suspended prison sentences of several months, without receiving any response from the government or regional authorities. On October 20, the demonstrators identified a policeman in civilian clothes who had infiltrated the association's members gathered in a private estate on the road leading to the RIO TINTO QMM site, and refused, in the face of some of his colleagues, to let him leave without explaining his presence among the members and the lack of response to their demands. The police then fired live ammunition. Mr. DAMY and Ms. RASOLONIRINA Françia died as a result, while the association's spokesman, Mr. ANDRIAMAMONJY, was arrested and ordered to crawl on the asphalt before being taken to the military hospital in the late afternoon, where he died during the night. Several people were also injured. Five people were arrested. 

We join the Collectif TANY in calling for justice for the victims of this violence, for those responsible at various levels to be held to account, and for the demands of the demonstrators to be met. 

An FLT delegation attended the 51st session of the Committee on World Food Security in Rome.

A delegation from the Forum des Luttes pour la Terre took part in the 51st session of the FAO's Committee on World Food Security in Rome. ROPPA, Ekta Parishad, COPROFAM, CERAI and AGTER were represented to make the voice of peasant organizations heard.

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) The CFS was created in 1974 as the leading intergovernmental and international platform for working together to eliminate hunger and ensure food security and nutrition for all. It issues policy recommendations on issues affecting food security and nutrition, and provides a forum for dialogue between the actors involved (government, NGOs, private sector, research institutes, international financial institutions and United Nations organizations). The FAO Created in 1945, the FAO is the United Nations agency dedicated to the elimination of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. Today, the FAO's priorities include building more productive and sustainable agriculture, forestry and fisheries, as well as reducing rural poverty.

The FLT was co-organizer of two Side-Events, during which it defended peasant agriculture, demonstrated the importance of struggles for political power and presented the Rencontre Mondiale des Luttes pour la Terre. 

During Side-Event #30 "Just transition or green grab? Land-intensive climate action and the protection of sustainable food systems for indigenous peoples and local communities" Fanny Métrat, a farmer, member of the Confédération Paysanne and member of the FLT Steering Committee, denounced the financialization of nature and the carbon and biodiversity markets with their offsetting systems, which enable the most polluting companies to continue to pollute with a clear conscience, and reaffirmed that a sustainable solution to social and environmental challenges will necessarily involve livestock farming and peasant agriculture.

On the occasion of Side Event #33 "Land security for all: Arguments for local and global action to advance implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the context of national food security", Ramesh Sharma, National Coordinator of Ekta Parishad and member of the FLT Steering Committee, pointed to a structural and institutional failure to recognize the landless poor and small farmers, calling for a legal framework to be developed by 2028 (MDG 5) and enabling half the world to strengthen family farming, which is the key to ending inequality and hunger. He further stressed the importance of strengthening family farming, which is essential to counter the local impacts of the climate crisis, and encouraged the ministerial meeting to discuss and agree on a new framework and commitment to address the issue of generational justice for millions of landless poor and marginal farmers.

Throughout the many discussions held by its delegation at Side Events and bilateral meetings, the Forum des Luttes pour la Terre took the opportunity of its participation in the CFS to reaffirm the need to continue the fight against land grabbing, and to reiterate the urgency of explicitly favoring agro-ecology and family and peasant farming over capitalist agriculture. We need to go further than the Voluntary Guidelines, implement binding measures and resolutely favor peasant farming.

You can watch the FLT representatives' speeches here.

Fanny Metrat - Confédération paysanne - Side Event 30 :

Ramesh Sharma - Ekta Parishad - Side Event 33 :

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Launch of "LE SAIS-TU?" digital campaign

FEDIA-TOGO, SAFE and CGLTE-OA unite against violence against young girls through a hard-hitting digital campaign: "LE SAIS-TU?"

This initiative aims to raise awareness of violence, support victims and break impunity by encouraging them to denounce perpetrators and bring them to justice.

"DID YOU KNOW?" reminds the public and abusers of criminal law provisions, encourages and supports victims to break the silence and reduce this violence and abuse, which undermines human rights and is a major obstacle to development.

The campaign will feature hard-hitting messages and poignant posters to inform and mobilize the public, calling for action with the hashtag #LESAISTU? Together, let's break the silence and take action for a future without violence against girls.