Sentences with phrase «of peasant land»

AA occupied Blue NG offices on Friday 17th, Via Campesina Day, in solidarity with millions of peasant land - workers demonstrating globally against agrofuels.

To make that possible the Mexican government has set aside the laws that forbade the selling of peasant land.

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After one such revolution much of the land was divided up among the peasants, and to prevent its re-concentration in the hands of the few, the government passed laws forbidding its sale.

In 1997, one of the largest walks brought together 100,000 people, peasant - farmers without land, in the Brazilian capital.

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.

In a land as frequently fought over as ancient Palestine the chance discovery of valuables hidden for safe keeping in some past emergency was by no means unusual, and every peasant ploughing his field must have had some such secret dream.

Peasants deprived of access to land and not needed in corporate agriculture contributed to the industrial labor force.

A people who have been pushed to the periphery from their farmland, as a result of the Herodian policy of city building on agricultural lands, the peasants found themselves against the arduous task of making an inhospitable land fit for cultivation.

In the 800's, before & after, they would cheat peasants out of all they could... for money, land and properties.

Even Mexico, whose major land reforms were instituted more than 30 years ago, has witnessed the re-emergence of land concentration and a recent increase in the number of landless peasants.

It is evident in his irresponsible treatment of affairs of state: his public corvee of Israel's free men; his extravagant court supported at the expense of the nation; his administrative division of the land in disregard of traditional tribal bounds; and his whole ingrown life in a court that defied the realities of Israel's basic peasant economy and spent its days in the grand style, with feasting, royal processions, and dilettante scholarship in a setting of magnificent architecture, erected by Israel's peasants, and with women enough for all and to spare.

the dalits and the peasants who live by the land, and women who are in a sense the creators and sustainers of life are protectors of ecology.

Indeed, one may speculate on the absurdity of Amos» position, as it must have seemed to his contemporaries, and most of all to the foreign lands here so boldly castigated by this peasant spokesman of a petty deity.

at the same time the parable of the talents came to mind and having grown up in Brazil, with parents who were peasants in pre-communist Russia, it was ingrained in me to become an engineer to be successful which I became after i came to the «land of milk and honney, where money grows on trees» and many foreigners aspire to do the same to come and live here, the good ol USA...

The abolition of the feudal obligations of the peasants and their lords, agricultural reforms, and the introduction of the free alienability of land led to large - scale migrations from the countryside into the cities.

In recent decades similar policies have been followed as peasants have been forced off their land for the sake of modernization and «progress».

Stories of recent martyrs could easily be multiplied: monks were murdered in Algeria in 1998; an American nun was shot defending peasants» claim to land in Brazil in 2005; Baptist missionaries from the U.S. were shot in northern Iraq last year, and so on.

He represented the rich landowning business class who did not want the distribution of land to the poor peasants.

However, he was seldom seen In Wittenberg, having taken his bride to his parish of Orlamunde, where, calling himself Brother Andrew, he cultivated the Glebe land in peasant's clothes and invited Muntzer to come to join the commune and help with the work.

AGRA is a member of the Asian Peasants Coalition who focuses on land rights and genuine agrarian reform.

In 2009, Wang Shuai posted pictures accusing local officials of tricking peasants into degrading the value of their land under the auspices of drought prevention, so the government could requisition it more cheaply.

These include the introduction of territorially autonomous regimes that can be formed without the need to have been part of other pre-existing political - administrative divisions, but on the bases of ethno - cultural features; the recognition of community justice as parallel and coexistent with ordinary justice, exercised by the «native indigenous peasant nations and peoples» authorities according to their principles, cultural values, norms and proceedings» (Art. 199); and the consolidation of a system of collective land titling following ethnicity - based criteria.

In an occasion, CPI Marxist wanted to evict some poor peasants out of their lands by pursuing a pro-Chinese (CPI Marxist is perhaps the only pro-China communist party of India) policy, trying to industrialise West Bengal fast on the cost of leaving poor farmers homeless and landless, and joining a capitalist pro-globalisation economic program.

«Especially these peasant farmers who maybe have a small plot of land, they rely almost exclusively on coffee sales to sustain themselves,» Myers said.

In 1985, for example, José Sarney became the country's first civilian president after 21 years of military rule and promised to expropriate 14 million hectares of land and settle 1.4 million peasants.

Many take the law into their own hands to combat invasions of unproductive land organised by the MST, and over the past decade hundreds of peasants have been killed.

«It is the Age of Enlightenment,» we're told in the tasteful font of «Masterpiece Theatre», and while the rest of Europe has gone through a massive philosophical and ethical shift with respect to its perception of peasants and landed gentry, Denmark has remained an outpost of the old, thanks in no small part to the conservative court that pulls the strings of mad young King Christian (Mikkel Følsgaard, Best Actor winner at Berlin).

In the end, as in most films of this type, the DEA triumphs in its land war against the peasants, and Statham can get back to his life.

Language: Italian Genre: Drama / Historical MPAA rating: NR Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Actors: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda Plot: The lives of two Italian men - one a bastard born to a peasant, the other to a land - owner from 1900 - 1945 - the rise of Fascism and Communism and how the two men are shaped by the social and political times.

Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness to his peasants, is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions in Mao's Land Reform Movement of 1948, but is cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innoceland and worldly possessions in Mao's Land Reform Movement of 1948, but is cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innoceLand Reform Movement of 1948, but is cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innocence.

Surrounded by green hills, not far from the slopes of the volcano Etna, on a marvellous hill hanging between time and space, it rises the Agriturismo... Read more Gigliotto, a fief of 300 hectares of fertile lands cultivated following the peasant tradition.

Watching cartoons as a child you must have heard about Transylvania, the land of Count Dracula, a place where medieval peasants scour in fear at the mere mention of the count's name.

FROM combines the dead dogs from the Undead Burg to strange looking werewolves and Brightstone Cove peasants to mix up the world of Yharnam, the land of the cure.

While touching on Smith's original work on Peruvian land reform and tactics of peasant rebellion, Sworn's installation focussed on the legibility of photographs and how they are narrated through collective discussion.

Yet while nearly every frame carries the memory of war, his work is marked by an overwhelming humanity and sensitivity: careful portraits of soldiers, peasants, farmers and refugees, all rendered with equal compassion, whether a muscular fighter posing with a grenade launcher or the damaged body of the victim of a land mine.

While touching on Smith's original work on Peruvian land reform and tactics of peasant rebellion, Sworn's installation focused on the legibility of photographs and how they are narrated through collective discussion.

The peasants are protesting the «taking» of their land.

Food production can be made far more fruitful and less wasteful of land and water, more respectful of peasants and indigenous people and less polluting.

However, indigenous and peasant organizations called it unconstitutional, stating that it would destroy their agricultural economy, threaten traditional systems of land tenure and drive thousands to immigrate to city slums in search of work.

TIAA - CREF's land acquisition is part of a trend leading to expropriation of land from indigenous people, Afro - Brazilian quilombolas, and other peasant farmers, and driving the destruction of the fragile Cerrado ecosystem.

By contrast agro-ecological peasant farming systems feed the remaining 70 % on only a third of available land, enriching soil fertility and with little emissions.

Instead of the land being given to the poor peasant farmers, the political elite became owners, including Robert Mugabe and influential members of ZANU - PF.