4/28: Celebrate International Peasants Day
Film screening of "Tierras Libres"
w/ peasant leaders from Venezuela, Dominican Republic & US
Celebrate International Day of Peasant's Struggle with a screening of "Tierras Libres"
special guests:
Filmmaker Edward Ellis
Dominican campesina leader Scarlet Alcantara
NYC farmer and activist Karen Washington
When: Thursday, April 28th at 6:30 PM
Where: 1199SEIU Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor Center, 310 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, NYC
This event is free and open to the public. Please bring seeds, flowers, produce, candles, images, etc. for a memorial altar for campesinos who have lost their lives in the struggle. If you are able to contribute food and/or volunteer, email cbalbertolovera@gmail.com.
About the film: Venezuela has a long and tumultuous history of struggle over land, dating back to the colonization of indigenous lands by Europeans. More recently, the Venezuelan countryside has been characterized by extreme inequalities in land ownership, with the much of the land concentrated in the hands of a few and the majority of peasant families without land. A decade ago, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez passed a radical new agrarian reform law giving peasants a legal framework to reclaim idle and underused land. This ignited a new wave of violence that has led to the widespread assassination of landless farmers. This film is about the struggle of peasants in Venezuela to defend their rights as they struggle for food sovereignty.
Sponsored by: Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of NY. Co-sponsors: Brooklyn Food Coalition, Kalabash Food Coop, WhyHunger, International Action Center, Monthly Review, Seeds for Haiti, Grassroots International, Smarll Planet Institute, Just Food, Solidarity with Iran, Friends of Brook Park and others. Add your organization's name to the list! Email cbalbertolovera@gmail.com. |
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