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[Info EN] U.S. Farmworkers and Palestinian Farmers share 2014
Food Sovereignty Prize
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Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:56:26 +0200
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U.S. Farmworkers and Palestinian Farmers share 2014 Food
Sovereignty Prize
Honorees Represent Communities Defending Their Human
Rights to Food in the Face of Policies of Land and Water Grabbing,
Migration, and Militarization
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 9, 2014
Des Moines, IA — The US
Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) is honored to name the Union of
Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) of Palestine, based in Gaza and the
West Bank, and Community to Community Development /Comunidad a
Comunidad (C2C) of Bellingham, Washington, as co-recipients of the 2014
Food Sovereignty Prize.
Their stories of continuous struggle to defend the rights of their
communities – farmers and fishers in the occupied Palestinian
territories and migrant Mexican farm workers in Washington State, both
seeking to produce their own food, on their own land, in their home
communities – stand in stark contrast to the storylines coming from
agribusiness: that technological changes to crops can meet human needs
and resolve hunger.
Palestine has been under Israeli occupation for decades and this
summer faced heightened pressure, including thousands killed and many
more injured from bombings, destruction of homes, schools, hospitals,
farms, and fishing boats, and hundreds of arrests without due process,
and the continued building of settlements on Palestinian farmland. UAWC
builds farmers cooperatives and seed banks, and supports women’s
leadership, while continuing to seek its members’ human rights to food,
land, and water.
“This important prize inspires UAWC to carry on its work in
defending Palestinian farmers' rights against the brutal Israeli
violations, both through supporting small-scale farmers and fishermen
toward their food sovereignty and rights to land and water, and also
through coordination with local and international movements for social
justice and human rights," said Khaled Hidan, General Director of the
Union of Agricultural Work Committees in Palestine.
In Washington State, amid failed immigration policies that
criminalize working families, Community to Community Development has
supported and worked with immigrant farm workers to develop farm
worker-owned cooperatives, organize a successful nutrition education
project called Cocinas Sanas, and promote domestic fair trade in
regional assemblies and meetings. Most recently, C2C has supported an
emerging farm worker union, Familias Unidas por la Justicia, and
organized a national boycott of Sakuma Farms, their employer, who
withheld pay, provided poor housing, and has since retaliated against
the workers. Familias Unidas por la Justicia recently won a settlement
for wage theft and had a Superior Court Judge rule uphold their right
to organize – but their fight is not over.
“In honoring Community to Community, the USFSA honors indigenous
farmworkers in the U.S. Displaced by NAFTA, these peasant farmers from
Mexico are practicing a tradition of struggle for justice. Together,
C2C and Familias Unidas are promoting food sovereignty in rural
Washington State and challenging the corporate agricultural interests
that are controlling our food system,” said Rosalinda Guillen,
Executive Director of Community to Community Development.
The Food Sovereignty Prize will be awarded on the evening of October
15in Des Moines, IA, at the Historical Building. The Food Sovereignty
Prize challenges the view that simply producing more through industrial
agriculture and aquaculture will end hunger or reduce suffering. The
world currently produces more than enough food, but unbalanced access
to wealth means the inadequate access to food. Real solutions protect
the rights to land, seeds and water of family farmers and indigenous
communities worldwide and promote sustainable agriculture through
agroecology. The communities around the world who struggle to grow
their food and take care of their land have long known that destructive
political, economic, and social policies, as well as militarization,
deprive communities of their rights. These are the root causes of
want, hunger and poverty.
The USFSA represents a network of food producers and labor,
environmental, faith-based, social justice and anti-hunger advocacy
organizations. Additional supporters of the 2014 Food Sovereignty Prize
include Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, the Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom – Des Moines, and Occupy the
World Food Prize, along with media sponsor EcoWatch.
For event updates and background on food sovereignty and the prize
winners, visit
www.foodsovereigntyprize.org. Also, visit the Food
Sovereignty Prize on Facebook (facebook.com/FoodSovereigntyPrize) and
join the conversation on Twitter (#foodsovprize)
CONTACT:
Adam Mason, State Policy
Organizing Director
Iowa Citizens for Community
Improvement
(515) 282-0484, adam@???
Lisa Griffith, National
Family Farm Coalition
US Food Sovereignty Alliance
(773) 319-5838, lisa@???
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