TOWARDS A PEOPLES UNION OF SOUTH ASIA
20 July 2008
The South Asian People’s Assembly (Colombo, 18-20 July) resolves to issue the Peoples SAARC Declaration at this gathering of representatives from SAARC countries.
We, members of social movements, labour unions, women’s groups and civil society organisations have gathered here in Colombo from 18-20 July 2008, as part of the process of Peoples SAARC, to forge a vision for a Peoples Union of South Asia.
Statements, Reports, Calls to Action
People
Asian Civil Society Groups Call For 'Climate Justice'
PRESS RELEASE
BANGKOK (July 16) – Over 170 activists who gathered in Bangkok over the weekend harshly criticised governments and corporations for their failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They called for "climate justice" and a "fundamental departure from the curent global order" to solve the climate crisis. Conference participants included fishers and farmers, forest and indigenous peoples, women, youth, workers and non-government activists from 31 countries.
BANGKOK (July 16) – Over 170 activists who gathered in Bangkok over the weekend harshly criticised governments and corporations for their failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They called for "climate justice" and a "fundamental departure from the curent global order" to solve the climate crisis. Conference participants included fishers and farmers, forest and indigenous peoples, women, youth, workers and non-government activists from 31 countries.
Denunciation regarding the attack on the MST. Brazil
Dear friends of the MST, Human Rights organizations, Parliamentarians, citizens of the world!
This is to ask your solidarity. Our movement is suffering a true offensive of the conservative forces in the Rio Grande do Sul State. Those forces not only wish to see the land distributed, as the Constitution states, but they also want too criminalize those who are struggling for the agrarian reform and stop the MST.
To do so, those political forces which in fact defend the powerful interests from transnational corporation's economic groups are establishing themselves in the state to control agriculture and large land owners are represented today in the Administration of Ms. Yeda Crusius, through it Military Brigade, in the Judiciary and in the media monopoly.
This is to ask your solidarity. Our movement is suffering a true offensive of the conservative forces in the Rio Grande do Sul State. Those forces not only wish to see the land distributed, as the Constitution states, but they also want too criminalize those who are struggling for the agrarian reform and stop the MST.
To do so, those political forces which in fact defend the powerful interests from transnational corporation's economic groups are establishing themselves in the state to control agriculture and large land owners are represented today in the Administration of Ms. Yeda Crusius, through it Military Brigade, in the Judiciary and in the media monopoly.
NAPM condemns murder of its Karnataka state convenor Mr. A. T. Babu by the Karnataka Liquor Lobby
Dear Friends,
Assuming you have heard of the murder of A.T.Babu, I am playing a secretarial role to keep you informed of several events that will take place in the next few days.
Today
The most immediate is that Babu's body will be placed for the public to express solidarity with the family and to be prompted to take concerted action against this dastardly crime. The body is at Prakashnagar and Babu's son-in-law informs us that the cremation? Burial? Will be today at Bangalore. Please contact Jagadish 9448394365 for further information.
Sign-on : The WTO
Sign-on : The WTO’s Doha Round Will Not Solve the Global Food Crisis – Time for Real Solutions
From OWINFS - Our World is Not For Sale
We request all organizations concerned about the Food crisis and which reject the hypocritical hijacking of the crisis to attempt to push through a Doha Round of WTO expansion that has yet to be able to be concluded on its own "merits", to endorse the attached letter, which is in English, Spanish, and French.
Please send endorsements to Anuradha Mittal at the Oakland Institute, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it as soon as possible.
Thank you,
Deborah James, Anuradha Mittal, and Carin Smaller, and all the contributories from the OWINFS Agriculture Working Group
From OWINFS - Our World is Not For Sale
We request all organizations concerned about the Food crisis and which reject the hypocritical hijacking of the crisis to attempt to push through a Doha Round of WTO expansion that has yet to be able to be concluded on its own "merits", to endorse the attached letter, which is in English, Spanish, and French.
Please send endorsements to Anuradha Mittal at the Oakland Institute, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it as soon as possible.
Thank you,
Deborah James, Anuradha Mittal, and Carin Smaller, and all the contributories from the OWINFS Agriculture Working Group
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