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Despair and resistance in Greece, Yannis Almpanis (member of the Network for Political and
Social Rights).

The meaning of the Greek crisis, Pascal Franchet (CADTM, France)

Ouf, les Islandais ont dit non !, Olivier Bonfond, Jérôme Duval et Damien Millet, membres du CADTM (available in French only)

Algeria : On the social situation in Algeria, EExcerpt from the report of the
EuroMaghreb Trade Union delegation, Alger 6^th - 11^th March 2010.

Russia : Russia: « A Day of Anger », Carine Clément

France: France: Strike at the TOTAL refinery in Dunkirk, SUD–Total.

Turkey : Turkey: A Brief History of TEKEL Struggle, Eyup Ozer

Campains

Farmers and civil
society groups
denounce World Bank
proposal for win-win
land grabbing

Via Campesina, FIAN, Land Research Action
Network and GRAIN, together with over 100
allies, are issuing a loud appeal to stop the
current wave of land grabbing that is taking
millions of hectares of farmland away from
rural communities across Africa, Asia and
Latin America. Their appeal coincides with
the release of a new World Bank report that
confirms the massive extent of of the current
land grab assault and puts forward seven
“principles” to make these land deals socially
acceptable. The Bank’s strategy will be presented
in Washington DC at a Roundtable on
April 25, co-hosted by Japan, the United States
and the African Union, and at the World
Bank’s Annual Land Conference on April 26.
In a statement, the movements and organisations
denounce the Bank’s proposals as an
attempt to “reduce the risk of social backlash”
while pushing ahead with the take-over of
agricultural land by corporate investors. “The
World Bank’s principles,” the groups argue,
“aim to distract from the fact that today’s
global food crisis will not be solved by large
scale industrial agriculture, which is what all
of these land acquisitions are about.”
A breakfast media briefing will be held on
Monday, April 26 at 7:45am at the Bread
Line Restaurant (1751 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20006). Representatives of
the National Family Farm Coalition/Via Campesina
and GRAIN will be present to explain
why win-win landgrabbing, as proposed by
the Bank, is impossible and what steps are
required to solve the global food crisis.
On Sunday April 25, from 2:00pm to 3:00pm,
groups will be in front of the Millennium
Challenge Corporation offices at 875 15^th
St. NW, where the official Roundtable event
will be held, to inform delegates of the position
of social movements.

Japan : 90,000 protesters in Okinawa, Yoko Akimoto, ATTAC Japan

Climate : Bolivia: `People’s Agreement’ adopted by the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth

Europe-Latin America : Call to the Peoples’ Alternative Summit, Enlazando Alternativas 4 - Madrid, 14^th - 18^th May 2010

Tanzania : Sustainable local development and traditions: the Parakuiyo Maasai challenge, Judith Hitchman.

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