Landlord, police avenge freedom for bonded families

A protest rally was organized against the excesses of a local landlord and police highhandedness in the Pakistan town of Hyderabad in southeastern Sindh province. Acitivists of local non-profits walked on the street s chanting slogans against landlord Choudhry Nazir Thakur and  …

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Members of Akbayan party list group condemned the killing in Davao City on Saturday of a leader of one of their affiliated peasant group in [Philippines'] Mindanao.

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ON OCTOBER 13--516 years to the day that First Nation originarios discovered Christopher Columbus--some 12,000 indigenous Colombians marched onto the Pan-American Highway in Cauca and refused to lift their blockade until their demands for land, liberty and life were met by the st …

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Getting back to basic truths. Family farming is good for the economy, the land, and for feeding people!

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When family rights advocate John De Graff started doing some historical research, he came across a shocking discovery - that medieval European peasants had more vacation time than modern American office workers.

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The Guardian article makes it fairly clear that these are (US-backed) right wing paramilitary groups working for big business interests.

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They are doll-like young women who drive sporty red Toyotas, stride through shopping plazas in high heels and go home to smart flats. They are also pretty women who stay at home, put the baby to bed and don delicate lingerie. This is not the modern Chinese wife.

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The man was almost too scared to talk. "I am just a farmer," he whispered, shortly after the police had descended on his village of Panlong in China's restive Guangdong province. "I know I don't matter." But what he had witnessed does.

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China has spelled out an ambitious plan to improve farmers' lives and productivity in response to rising fears about the gulf between the country's growing cities and struggling villages.

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