Conceived originally as a means
for landless farmers to get farming, Crop Mob has grown and flourished in little over a year.
Not exact matches
For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migran
For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty
for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migran
for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent
landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.
No government has really succeeded in bringing about real agrarian reform and,
for the moment, since the neo-liberal period, the situation of the
landless peasant - farmers has become increasingly serious because the large properties are beginning to find a certain legitimacy once more.
Mario Luis Lill of Brazil's «Movement of the
Landless»: «The MST is a movement
for those without land, the small peasant - farmers of Brazil who are struggling principally
for ownership of land.
Women, men, children, unemployed people, excluded and oppressed people, workers,
landless peasants, communities suffering from racism, impoverished city dwellers, indigenous peoples, students, intellectuals, migrants, small business people, outcasts, declining middle classes - citizens - are asserting their dignity, demanding respect
for their human rights and natural heritages, and practising solidarity.
The prophets had seen the Torah, particularly in its provisions
for the poor and
landless, as instruction as to how shalom could be maintained and managed.
MST (Movement of the
Landless, from Brazil) FENOP (National Federation of the peasant - farmers organisations, from Burkina Faso) PICIS (Policy and Information Center
for International Solidarity, South Korean Trade Union)
Some outstanding efforts are being made today,
for example, the involvement of priests and nuns in the fishermen's struggle in Kerala and the participation of Christian action groups in organizing
landless laborers in Tamil Nadu.
It also sought the establishment of the commercial domination of the Italian republics and the carving out of principalities
for the feudal lords of western Europe (as it has been expressively put, it attempted the solution of the problem of the
landless younger sons); and the Crusades also provided scope
for all who desired to strike a blow
for the faith or do penance by enduring the hardships of a holy war.
They were the MST (Movimento dos sem terra / Movement of the
Landless) from Brazil, PICIS (Policy and Information Center
for International Solidarity) from South Korea, FENOP (Fédération Nationale des Organisations Paysannes / National Federation of Farmers Organisations) from Burkina Faso, the Women Movement from Quebec, the Mouvement des Chômeurs (Movement of the Unemployed) from France)
The marginalised groups in their struggle
for freedom and human dignity have discovered the close link between environmental crisis and exploitation: tribals, fishermen,
landless people and women.
As one of the coordinators of Brazil's
Landless Workers Movement told the LA Times: «When the government told us we would host the World Cup, we hoped there would be improvements
for us.
Quite right
landless peasant, because labour loat in 1983 as it wasn't left wing wnough, Tony benn said so, and when he»D suggested the policies
for 1983 ′ he shut up, and didn't continue to try to push labour to the left,
Landless peasant, Wilson won in 1974 with 11.4 m votes in 64 ′ it was 12.2 m, the tories had 13m votes n 1983 ′ and the 74 manifesto supported selling council homes, wilson campaigned on A EU referndum to stay in, on the understanding if we voted to stay in the EEC, the party must accept it, the 1959 manifesto, said sell of council homes, and in 1965 michael fot had the party whip withdrawn from him,
for the last 4 years.
In the worst incident, 19
landless people were killed when police dispersed a protest near Marabá in the northern state of Para, a region notorious
for its ruthless style of settling disputes.
The numbers were about the same
for landed and
landless individuals, indicating that wealth did not buffer the environment enough to prevent natural selection from culling or favoring individuals.
We, the Catholic Church, the
landless movement (MST) and other groups called
for a Zero Deforestation law to save the Amazon and its forest dependent people.
Her forthcoming book, Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the
Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education (Oxford University Press) examines the educational initiatives of the Brazilian
Landless Workers Movement (MST), a national social movement of rural workers struggling
for agrarian reform.
Nearly 5,000 families will become
landless due to the lack of any plans
for their resettlement or compensation (Banco Santander 1).
The title refers both to the name given to territory occupied by
landless or homeless settlers and to the sacred areas designated
for worship in Candomblé, a religion practiced mainly in Brazil, which draws its beliefs from various African traditions and is historically associated with slaves» resistance.
In contrast, centuries of extraordinary technical progress give me great confidence that diffusion of our best practices and continuing innovation can advance us much further in decarbonization,
landless agriculture, and other cardinal directions
for a prosperous, green environment.
And the remaining 50 %
for Rural
Landless Household is borne by the state government or union territory.