September 11, 2003
REQUEST FOR SUPPORT FOR VIA CAMPESINA'S AFFIRMATION OF THE RIGHT TO FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND REJECTION OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
At the outset, we would like to make clear that this appeal does not represent an SJC position on the WTO. It is rather an attempt to convey to you what we are ourselves learning from peasant and farmer organizations. The information contained in the appeal is based on the Via Campesina website, the CIEPAC website, the websites of the Confédération paysanne and the Union paysanne, and on reports and interviews that have appeared in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada.
As we were preparing to send out this urgent action, this morning news brought the report of the death of Lee Kyong Hae, a Korean farmer who stabbed himself in front of the security wall surrounding the WTO Ministerial Meetings in Cancún. Shortly before his death, Lee Kyong Hae spoke to reporters from the Mexican newspaper La Jornada; on his t–shirt was written "the WTO kills Farmers." The tragedy of his death brings immediately to mind a group of campesinos from the Mexican state of Veracruz, who died of thirst in the desert while attempting to cross the Mexico–United States border. Until the latest drop in world coffee prices forced them to abandon their farms, these campesinos had had small but viable coffee plantations. Lee Kyong Hae's tragedy also remind us of the plight of laid–off coffee plantation labourers, whose children have starved to death in Nicaragua.
When we speak of agriculture, we are talking about nearly half of the world's population. The neoliberal model of agriculture, based on the intensive use of agro–chemicals and centred on agro–exports, that is promoted by the international financial institutions and by the governments of the North (with the acquiescence and often the support of governments in the South) is literally destroying peasant agriculture in the South. It is a model that is being increasingly questioned in the North, where there has been a drastic decrease in the number of family farms and a consequent decline in rural communities.
You are no doubt very aware that one of the most important subjects to be taken up at the forthcoming bi–annual ministerial meetings of the WTO in Cancún will be agriculture. The existing WTO agreement on agriculture, as well as the emphasis on export agriculture that is promoted by the World Bank and the IMF, have had an extremely detrimental effect on the situation of peasants and family farmers. The current proposals being put forward at the ministerial meetings by the United States and the European Union will, if accepted, serve to worsen the situation of peasants and family farmers.
The international peasant and farmer organization Via Campesina (a coalition of national organizations that includes the National Farmers Union and the Union paysanne) is therefore calling for agriculture and all related topics to be taken out of the WTO. The purpose of this appeal is to ask for your support, as members of the Mexico/Central America Urgent Action Network, for the demands that are contained in the Cancún Declaration of the International Peasant and Indigenous Forum. The Forum was organized by Via Campesina as part of the People's Forum preceding, and in opposition to, the current WTO ministerial meetings. (If you wish to have more information on Via Campesina, please contact their website viacampesina.org)
The Via Campesina coalition, which brings together farmers and peasants from both South and North and whose head offices are in Honduras, hosted the Campesino and Indigenous Forum in Cancún attended by representatives from at least thirty–three countries. This is a short extract from their September 11th press release: "We do not want any more deaths. We demand respect for our mourning, for the grief of all peasants in all parts of the world, for the mourning of the 120 Koreans who, with a great effort, came here to Mexico, to Cancún, to protest against the WTO and to struggle for food sovereignty... It is hard for us to understand this public sacrifice ... Lee Kyong Hae's sacrifice leaves us without words and with great pain in our hearts, and with a firm commitment to continue to struggle for life"
The member organizations of Via Campesina totally repudiate the neoliberal policies that are derived from the fallacious theory according to which increases in international trade in agricultural products will bring increased prosperity and well being for everyone. For Via Campesina, the guiding principle is that of food sovereignty – a concept which it believes should be at the centre of national and international agricultural policy. In Via Campesina's own words, "food Sovereignty is every community's fundamental right. Every community should have the right to produce their own food, the right to food sovereignty. This means that communities have the right to define their own agricultural and food policies, to protect and to regulate their national agricultural and livestock production, and to shield their domestic market from the dumping of agricultural surpluses from other countries.".
Via Campesina rejects the WTO. It calls for agricultural trade to be regulated by a new institution, which would be established on the basis of a new International Covenant defining the concept of agricultural sovereignty and defending the basic rights of peasants and farmers.
It is important to remember that on an over–all basis international trade in agricultural goods only amounts to to 10% to 20% of total agricultural sales. That is to say that most food is still produced and consumed within national borders, although there are, of course, wide variations depending on the crop involved. Over 80% of coffee is exported making it one of the most traded commodities (the others being oil, illegal drugs, and arms – none of which are covered by WTO rules). The corresponding figure for wheat is a little less than 20%. However, despite these variations, in nearly all cases the terms of international trade have a determining influence on domestic prices. For instance, only 4% of world pork production is traded internationally but it is this 4% that not only determines the international price for pork but also strongly influences domestic prices.
According to Mark Ritchie of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), half of the world's population is involved in agriculture, but the great majority of peasants and farmers North and South have no voice in the decisions adopted in the WTO and very little control over agricultural prices. In almost all of the main agricultural crops, large transnational corporations control 50%–90% of the world market, and any given crop is almost always in the hands of four or five giant corporations with a common interest in low prices for farmers. According to the IATP, virtually all agro–exports are sold well below production costs. The Confédération paysanne (of France) has stated that mergers, buy–outs, and restructuring have created about a dozen huge conglomerates with interests in all branches of the agricultural economy: seed production; agro–chemicals; meat, fruit and vegetable production; food processing. (Not to mention the big grain dealers such as Cargill, one of whose executives temporarily left the company to be part of the United States government team at the negotiations leading to the setting up of the WTO in 1994.)
The WTO is strongly opposed to subsidies on agricultural products. Although subsidies based on the volume of production have been largely eliminated by the European Union, EU producers continue to receive billions of dollars in subsidies that are calculated on a per hectare basis (regardless of the quantity produced on that hectare). Under its latest Farm Bill, the United States will increase its already huge subsidies. By enabling producers to sell at a price that is lower than their cost of production, the subsidies accorded by the United States and the European Union have facilitated the decrease in world prices. Because of subsidies in the rich countries, corn can be exported at prices 20% lower than the cost of production; the corresponding figure for wheat is 50%. This deliberate driving down of prices has caused a disaster for peasants in the South who cannot compete with artificially lowered prices and whose livelihood is being destroyed by food imports. Small farmers in the North are also suffering from such policies. For instance, each year since 1992 has seen the disappearance of 200,000 family farms in the European Union. It is above all the larger farmers and agro–businesses that are favoured by the United States and European Union subsidies. In the United States, 25% of large corporations receive 75% of farm subsidies and in Europe 20% of the farms receive 80% of the subsidies.
Not only does the WTO call for continued reductions in import duties but its rules oblige member countries to import (at favourable tariff rates) a quantity of food products corresponding to a certain percentage (5% in the case of "developed" countries and 4%, by the year 2004, in the case of "developing" countries) of domestic food consumption. That is to say that a WTO member such as Japan producing rice for its domestic market is obliged to import 5% of the rice that it consumes regardless of whether or not there is a shortfall in domestic production. There is good reason to believe that there will be continued pressure within the WTO to increase the above percentages.
The member organizations of Via Campesina believe that food is much more than a commodity. They believe that food is a basic human right and that food and farming are essential elements of national culture. Furthermore, they are adamantly opposed to the intellectual ownership and patenting of life forms that is part of the WTO agreement on intellectual property rights. It therefore follows that they are strongly against the cultivation of genetically–modified organisms.
Via Campesina has also expressed its opposition to the WTO agreement of goods and services and, in particular, to the privatization of public services such as health care and education.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Please write to the Canadian government to express your support for the demands that are incorporated in the Cancún Declaration of the International Peasant and Indigenous Forum organized by Via Campesina on the occasion of the WTO Ministerial Conference. (You may wish to point out that increasing numbers of Canadians are questioning the current international and national models of food production and distribution and that some Canadian organizations are members of Via Campesina.) As you will see, the Declaration is rather lengthy. When writing to the government, you will almost certainly wish to select and emphasize the points which you feel are most important.
The following version of the Declaration has been abridged and translated by the SJC. We expect that in due course the full text will appear on Via Campesina's web–site in Spanish, English, and French.
Hon. Pierre Pettigrew
Minister for International Trade
House of Commons
Parliament Buildings
Ottawa (ON) K1A 0A6
Email: Pettigrew.P@parl.gc.ca
Fax: (613) 995-9926
Hon. Sergio March
Canadian Ambassador to the World Trade Organization
sergiomarchi@dfait-maeci.gc.ca
Via Campesina
viacam@gbm.hn Fax: 011 504 235 9915
REQUEST FOR SUPPORT FOR VIA CAMPESINA'S AFFIRMATION OF THE RIGHT TO FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND REJECTION OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
At the outset, we would like to make clear that this appeal does not represent an SJC position on the WTO. It is rather an attempt to convey to you what we are ourselves learning from peasant and farmer organizations. The information contained in the appeal is based on the Via Campesina website, the CIEPAC website, the websites of the Confédération paysanne and the Union paysanne, and on reports and interviews that have appeared in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada.
As we were preparing to send out this urgent action, this morning news brought the report of the death of Lee Kyong Hae, a Korean farmer who stabbed himself in front of the security wall surrounding the WTO Ministerial Meetings in Cancún. Shortly before his death, Lee Kyong Hae spoke to reporters from the Mexican newspaper La Jornada; on his t–shirt was written "the WTO kills Farmers." The tragedy of his death brings immediately to mind a group of campesinos from the Mexican state of Veracruz, who died of thirst in the desert while attempting to cross the Mexico–United States border. Until the latest drop in world coffee prices forced them to abandon their farms, these campesinos had had small but viable coffee plantations. Lee Kyong Hae's tragedy also remind us of the plight of laid–off coffee plantation labourers, whose children have starved to death in Nicaragua.
When we speak of agriculture, we are talking about nearly half of the world's population. The neoliberal model of agriculture, based on the intensive use of agro–chemicals and centred on agro–exports, that is promoted by the international financial institutions and by the governments of the North (with the acquiescence and often the support of governments in the South) is literally destroying peasant agriculture in the South. It is a model that is being increasingly questioned in the North, where there has been a drastic decrease in the number of family farms and a consequent decline in rural communities.
You are no doubt very aware that one of the most important subjects to be taken up at the forthcoming bi–annual ministerial meetings of the WTO in Cancún will be agriculture. The existing WTO agreement on agriculture, as well as the emphasis on export agriculture that is promoted by the World Bank and the IMF, have had an extremely detrimental effect on the situation of peasants and family farmers. The current proposals being put forward at the ministerial meetings by the United States and the European Union will, if accepted, serve to worsen the situation of peasants and family farmers.
The international peasant and farmer organization Via Campesina (a coalition of national organizations that includes the National Farmers Union and the Union paysanne) is therefore calling for agriculture and all related topics to be taken out of the WTO. The purpose of this appeal is to ask for your support, as members of the Mexico/Central America Urgent Action Network, for the demands that are contained in the Cancún Declaration of the International Peasant and Indigenous Forum. The Forum was organized by Via Campesina as part of the People's Forum preceding, and in opposition to, the current WTO ministerial meetings. (If you wish to have more information on Via Campesina, please contact their website viacampesina.org)
The Via Campesina coalition, which brings together farmers and peasants from both South and North and whose head offices are in Honduras, hosted the Campesino and Indigenous Forum in Cancún attended by representatives from at least thirty–three countries. This is a short extract from their September 11th press release: "We do not want any more deaths. We demand respect for our mourning, for the grief of all peasants in all parts of the world, for the mourning of the 120 Koreans who, with a great effort, came here to Mexico, to Cancún, to protest against the WTO and to struggle for food sovereignty... It is hard for us to understand this public sacrifice ... Lee Kyong Hae's sacrifice leaves us without words and with great pain in our hearts, and with a firm commitment to continue to struggle for life"
The member organizations of Via Campesina totally repudiate the neoliberal policies that are derived from the fallacious theory according to which increases in international trade in agricultural products will bring increased prosperity and well being for everyone. For Via Campesina, the guiding principle is that of food sovereignty – a concept which it believes should be at the centre of national and international agricultural policy. In Via Campesina's own words, "food Sovereignty is every community's fundamental right. Every community should have the right to produce their own food, the right to food sovereignty. This means that communities have the right to define their own agricultural and food policies, to protect and to regulate their national agricultural and livestock production, and to shield their domestic market from the dumping of agricultural surpluses from other countries.".
Via Campesina rejects the WTO. It calls for agricultural trade to be regulated by a new institution, which would be established on the basis of a new International Covenant defining the concept of agricultural sovereignty and defending the basic rights of peasants and farmers.
It is important to remember that on an over–all basis international trade in agricultural goods only amounts to to 10% to 20% of total agricultural sales. That is to say that most food is still produced and consumed within national borders, although there are, of course, wide variations depending on the crop involved. Over 80% of coffee is exported making it one of the most traded commodities (the others being oil, illegal drugs, and arms – none of which are covered by WTO rules). The corresponding figure for wheat is a little less than 20%. However, despite these variations, in nearly all cases the terms of international trade have a determining influence on domestic prices. For instance, only 4% of world pork production is traded internationally but it is this 4% that not only determines the international price for pork but also strongly influences domestic prices.
According to Mark Ritchie of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), half of the world's population is involved in agriculture, but the great majority of peasants and farmers North and South have no voice in the decisions adopted in the WTO and very little control over agricultural prices. In almost all of the main agricultural crops, large transnational corporations control 50%–90% of the world market, and any given crop is almost always in the hands of four or five giant corporations with a common interest in low prices for farmers. According to the IATP, virtually all agro–exports are sold well below production costs. The Confédération paysanne (of France) has stated that mergers, buy–outs, and restructuring have created about a dozen huge conglomerates with interests in all branches of the agricultural economy: seed production; agro–chemicals; meat, fruit and vegetable production; food processing. (Not to mention the big grain dealers such as Cargill, one of whose executives temporarily left the company to be part of the United States government team at the negotiations leading to the setting up of the WTO in 1994.)
The WTO is strongly opposed to subsidies on agricultural products. Although subsidies based on the volume of production have been largely eliminated by the European Union, EU producers continue to receive billions of dollars in subsidies that are calculated on a per hectare basis (regardless of the quantity produced on that hectare). Under its latest Farm Bill, the United States will increase its already huge subsidies. By enabling producers to sell at a price that is lower than their cost of production, the subsidies accorded by the United States and the European Union have facilitated the decrease in world prices. Because of subsidies in the rich countries, corn can be exported at prices 20% lower than the cost of production; the corresponding figure for wheat is 50%. This deliberate driving down of prices has caused a disaster for peasants in the South who cannot compete with artificially lowered prices and whose livelihood is being destroyed by food imports. Small farmers in the North are also suffering from such policies. For instance, each year since 1992 has seen the disappearance of 200,000 family farms in the European Union. It is above all the larger farmers and agro–businesses that are favoured by the United States and European Union subsidies. In the United States, 25% of large corporations receive 75% of farm subsidies and in Europe 20% of the farms receive 80% of the subsidies.
Not only does the WTO call for continued reductions in import duties but its rules oblige member countries to import (at favourable tariff rates) a quantity of food products corresponding to a certain percentage (5% in the case of "developed" countries and 4%, by the year 2004, in the case of "developing" countries) of domestic food consumption. That is to say that a WTO member such as Japan producing rice for its domestic market is obliged to import 5% of the rice that it consumes regardless of whether or not there is a shortfall in domestic production. There is good reason to believe that there will be continued pressure within the WTO to increase the above percentages.
The member organizations of Via Campesina believe that food is much more than a commodity. They believe that food is a basic human right and that food and farming are essential elements of national culture. Furthermore, they are adamantly opposed to the intellectual ownership and patenting of life forms that is part of the WTO agreement on intellectual property rights. It therefore follows that they are strongly against the cultivation of genetically–modified organisms.
Via Campesina has also expressed its opposition to the WTO agreement of goods and services and, in particular, to the privatization of public services such as health care and education.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Please write to the Canadian government to express your support for the demands that are incorporated in the Cancún Declaration of the International Peasant and Indigenous Forum organized by Via Campesina on the occasion of the WTO Ministerial Conference. (You may wish to point out that increasing numbers of Canadians are questioning the current international and national models of food production and distribution and that some Canadian organizations are members of Via Campesina.) As you will see, the Declaration is rather lengthy. When writing to the government, you will almost certainly wish to select and emphasize the points which you feel are most important.
The following version of the Declaration has been abridged and translated by the SJC. We expect that in due course the full text will appear on Via Campesina's web–site in Spanish, English, and French.
- The World Trade Organization should leave the domain of agriculture. Food, as well as health care and education, should not be the subject of commercial accords that are of benefit only to a few transnational corporations and that are destroying the local economies, the life, and the future of the indigenous peoples, of peasants, and of family farmers. Trade liberalization in agricultural products has led to an increase in poverty and hunger in the world.
- Food sovereignty for nations and regions (de los pueblos) should be the guiding principle of international policy. It should be based on the right of all peoples to produce their own food in a way that is sustainable and in accordance with their traditions, and that is in harmony with the defence of biodiversity and of their natural resources.
- There is an urgent need for policies and programmes to support small and medium farmers in order to protect them from the onslaught of the transnational corporations. There should be new agricultural marketing policies, at national and international levels, to bring about a proper balance in the production and distribution of food, and to guarantee to indigenous peoples and peasants secure access to their lands and territories so that they can live in dignity.
- There should be a halt to the importing and production of genetically–modified food products and seeds that put health at risk, change ecosystems, endanger our native seeds, and cause economic and technological dependence. Contrary to what is said by the transnational companies, such as Monsanto, which are involved in GMO production, genetically–modified products do not solve the problems of hunger. They do, however, lead to a monopoly of the seed market.
- Peasants and indigenous peoples reject all engagements or international agreements, such as the WTO agreement on intellectual property, which seek to appropriate their knowledge, genetic resources, seeds, traditions, and technology. They are opposed to any type of patent on life forms, because seeds are part of the heritage of humankind.
- Peasants and indigenous peoples are opposed to the WTO Agreement on Goods and Services which seeks to privatize all public goods and services and to put them into foreign hands. They have announced their intention of defending their rights, their communities and nations and territories, their soil and water, their forests and natural resources. They will continue their struggle for the extension and improvement of public health and education services in rural areas.
Hon. Pierre Pettigrew
Minister for International Trade
House of Commons
Parliament Buildings
Ottawa (ON) K1A 0A6
Email: Pettigrew.P@parl.gc.ca
Fax: (613) 995-9926
Hon. Sergio March
Canadian Ambassador to the World Trade Organization
sergiomarchi@dfait-maeci.gc.ca
Via Campesina
viacam@gbm.hn Fax: 011 504 235 9915
Pour se renseigner plus:
Sur le mouvement paysan international www.viacampesina.org
Sur l'agriculture paysanne www.unionpaysanne.org
Sur les droits humains des paysans www.s-j-c.net et pour le texte intégral de la déclaration
APPUYER LA LUTTE DES PAYSANS CONTRE L'ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU COMMERCE
Les organisations en provenance de toutes les régions du monde ayant participé au Forum international paysan et autochtone célébré à Cancún, Mexique, du 8 au 10 septembre, 2003, annoncent leur position devant la 5ième Réunion ministérielle de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC):
Nous demandons que l'Organisation mondiale du commerce sorte de l'agriculture et que la nourriture aussi bien que la santé et l'éducation ne fassent pas partie d'accords commerciaux dont les bénéficiaires ne sont que quelques enterprises transnationales qui détruisent les systèmes économiques, la vie et l'avenir des peuples autochtones, des paysans et des agriculteurs moyens. La libéralisation du commerce des produits agricoles a engendré un accroissement de la pauvreté et de la faim dans le monde.
Le principe de base de la politique internationale devrait être la souveraineté alimentaire, fondée sur le droit des peuples à produire leur propre nourriture d'une façon qui soit durable et respectueuse de leurs traditions tout en s'accordant avec la défense de la biodiversité et de nos ressources naturelles.
Nous demandons que soient établis des politiques et programmes d'appui aux petits et moyens agriculteurs, afin qu'ils ne soient pas écrasés par les enterprises transnationales. Une nouvelle réglementation des marchés agricoles, aux niveaux national et international, devrait équilibrer la production et la distribution des produits agricoles. Pour que les peuples autochtones et les paysans puissent vivre d'une manière digne, il faut que soit garanti leur accès á la terre et aux territoires.
Nous nous opposons à l'importation et á la production de la nourriture génétiquement modifiée et des semences génétiquement modifiés, qui mettent en danger notre santé, altèrent les écosystèmes, nuirent à nos semences indigènes et provoquent la dépendance économique et technologique. Contrairement aux affirmations des entreprises qui en tirent des bénéfices, telles que Monsanto, plutôt que de resoudre le problème de la faim ces produits créent un monopole sur les semences.
Nous rejettons tout engagement ou accord international, tel que l'Accord sur la propriété intellectuelle de l'OMC, qui cherche à s'approprier des connaissances, des ressources génétiques, des semences, des traditions et de la technologie des peuples autochtones et des paysans. Nous nous opposons à toute forme de brevet sur la vie, parce que les semences font partie du patrimoine des peuples pour le bien–être de l'humanité.
Nous invitons toutes les forces sociales de la campagne et de la ville,ainsi que les gouvernements et les député–e–s, à participer à l'édification d'un autre monde plus juste et plus humain fondé sur la construction d'un nouvel ordre alimentaire mondial.
Veuillez faire savoir au Ministre Pettigrew votre appui à la lutte de Via Campesina:
Hon. Pierre.Pettigrew
Ministre du Commerce International
Chambre des Communs
Ottawa (ON) K1A 0A6
Email: Pettigrew.P@parl.gc.ca
Fax: (613) 995–9926
Svp. Envoyer une copie de votre message au courriel du Comité pour la justice sociale sjc@web.ca
Sur le mouvement paysan international www.viacampesina.org
Sur l'agriculture paysanne www.unionpaysanne.org
Sur les droits humains des paysans www.s-j-c.net et pour le texte intégral de la déclaration
APPUYER LA LUTTE DES PAYSANS CONTRE L'ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU COMMERCE
DECLARATION DE CANCUN
Les organisations en provenance de toutes les régions du monde ayant participé au Forum international paysan et autochtone célébré à Cancún, Mexique, du 8 au 10 septembre, 2003, annoncent leur position devant la 5ième Réunion ministérielle de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC):
Nous demandons que l'Organisation mondiale du commerce sorte de l'agriculture et que la nourriture aussi bien que la santé et l'éducation ne fassent pas partie d'accords commerciaux dont les bénéficiaires ne sont que quelques enterprises transnationales qui détruisent les systèmes économiques, la vie et l'avenir des peuples autochtones, des paysans et des agriculteurs moyens. La libéralisation du commerce des produits agricoles a engendré un accroissement de la pauvreté et de la faim dans le monde.
Le principe de base de la politique internationale devrait être la souveraineté alimentaire, fondée sur le droit des peuples à produire leur propre nourriture d'une façon qui soit durable et respectueuse de leurs traditions tout en s'accordant avec la défense de la biodiversité et de nos ressources naturelles.
Nous demandons que soient établis des politiques et programmes d'appui aux petits et moyens agriculteurs, afin qu'ils ne soient pas écrasés par les enterprises transnationales. Une nouvelle réglementation des marchés agricoles, aux niveaux national et international, devrait équilibrer la production et la distribution des produits agricoles. Pour que les peuples autochtones et les paysans puissent vivre d'une manière digne, il faut que soit garanti leur accès á la terre et aux territoires.
Nous nous opposons à l'importation et á la production de la nourriture génétiquement modifiée et des semences génétiquement modifiés, qui mettent en danger notre santé, altèrent les écosystèmes, nuirent à nos semences indigènes et provoquent la dépendance économique et technologique. Contrairement aux affirmations des entreprises qui en tirent des bénéfices, telles que Monsanto, plutôt que de resoudre le problème de la faim ces produits créent un monopole sur les semences.
Nous rejettons tout engagement ou accord international, tel que l'Accord sur la propriété intellectuelle de l'OMC, qui cherche à s'approprier des connaissances, des ressources génétiques, des semences, des traditions et de la technologie des peuples autochtones et des paysans. Nous nous opposons à toute forme de brevet sur la vie, parce que les semences font partie du patrimoine des peuples pour le bien–être de l'humanité.
Nous invitons toutes les forces sociales de la campagne et de la ville,ainsi que les gouvernements et les député–e–s, à participer à l'édification d'un autre monde plus juste et plus humain fondé sur la construction d'un nouvel ordre alimentaire mondial.
Veuillez faire savoir au Ministre Pettigrew votre appui à la lutte de Via Campesina:
Hon. Pierre.Pettigrew
Ministre du Commerce International
Chambre des Communs
Ottawa (ON) K1A 0A6
Email: Pettigrew.P@parl.gc.ca
Fax: (613) 995–9926
Svp. Envoyer une copie de votre message au courriel du Comité pour la justice sociale sjc@web.ca