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  • From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: international small farmer solidarity
  • Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 14:45:24 -0500

Title: international small farmer solidarity
Along those lines, people may want to contact their Senators about the FTAA - which is NAFTA on steroids - thus, more of the same - protection of multinational corporations "investment rights" at the cost of the common person's basic needs - clean air, clean water, food, a livelihood.  It is slated to come up in the US Senate in the weeks ahead.  I hope people will take the time to call - this is a place where we could at least halt the tide, as we attempt to turn it.  Should it pass the Senate, we have another chance when it becomes reconciled in the house. 
 
                                            Jill
Leigh wrote:
My wife and I were just down in Brazil.  She was meeting with various groups in the fight to stop large multinationals (mostly French) from privatizing the water supply.  Some of the groups she met with represented small farmers.  What is happening in Brazil is that large corporations are moving in and kicking the small farmers off the land, sometimes using laws they are instrumental in writing, sometimes with the local police, sometime with the use of death squads.



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