[Sust-mar] International Peasant Day! Celebrate Local Food! Halifax Commons, April 17

[Peter Watson]

Start Time: Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 11:00am
End Time: 4:00pm
Location: Halifax Farmer's Market - Halifax Commons

Say "No!" to Corporate Control of Agriculture! Celebrate Local Food!

April 17th on the Commons

International Peasant's Day in support of Via Campesina
and Food Sovereignty
Also in solidarity with G8 protests in Halifax

11:00am- March starting at the Farmer's Market (Lower Water St.)
Bring instruments, banners, placards, friends & family!

12:00pm- Celebration on the North Commons
Free Food, Speakers, Information, entertainment, drum circle, puppets, face 
painting, guerrilla gardening & goats!

Speakers include: Gerard Choplin - Via Campesina European Coordination
Members of the National Farmers Union
Local Food Activists


International peasant day is a day to celebrate local, sustainable food and 
oppose a world food system run by agri-business. This day was founded by La 
Via Camesina; a group representing small and medium sized producers, 
landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural 
workers. They are a proponent of food sovereignty, and of peoples' right to 
self-determination of their food systems.

Current food systems oppress peasants, farmers and consumers locally as much 
as they do globally. Local farmers struggle to make a living while poor 
families can't afford to eat healthy. Canadian and Nova Scotian governments 
have prioritized corporate profits and GMO mono-crops over sustainability 
and local well-being. These policies are rooted in the broader policy 
prescriptions of the G8, of which Canada is a member state. The G8 
development ministers are meeting in Halifax, April 26th to 28th. April 17th 
is an opportunity to support small-scale farmers worldwide, protest an 
unsustainable world food system, and celebrate local alternatives.

Join us in this celebration!

For more information please visit: viacampesina.org/en/


halifaxpeasantday at gmail.com

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