Viacampesina TV coming to your screen starting today!
The mirror of our struggles
March 8, 2013
Viacampesina TV is a mirror of our daily lives, ourdreams and our struggles. La ViaCampesina took the opportunity of its 20th anniversary to launch a new website, fullof voices,faces, people and music. It gathers both audio-visual and cultural creations of the peasant organizations, whether members of La Via Campesina or not, with material produced by friends, allies, or occasionally by mainstream media.
Women farmers of the world facing the lens from a different perspective
VIACAMPESINA TV will take a crucial step that differentiates us from other mediain terms of gender. Globally, only24% of the people mentioned or giving their opinions in the news arewomen, while more thanthree quarters of people in the news aremale. Women continue to be consulted onlyin the category of "ordinary" people; men predominate as specialists.
In thatsense, as VIACAMPESINA TV we will have a firm commitment to make visible therole of women in building the movement, in theirstruggles for food sovereignty, violence against womenin the private andpublic sectors, and the construction of a new economic modelof production and consumption. That's why we considered the International Women Day, this day of mobilization and demands to officially launch our VIACAMPESINA TV because in order tobeabletosay"our word", we will have to build it together.
We all--women andmen--have the challenge of communicating in a wayin which we makewomen visible as protagonists of the struggle, of political education, and of transformation. Besides this,we will be working withnon-sexist language and language thatdoes not objectify women, in a way thatdoes not reproduce thepatriarchal vices that themass media often uses.
Watch videos on the women struggle!
How to do you send audiovisual material to us?
Upload it to Vimeo, YouTube, or another system.
And sendthe link to us at the following address: lvc-communication@viacampesina.org
All material willbe "Creative Commons" (can be used freely for non-commercial purposes).
You do not have to be a professional filmmaker, but must be willing to change our food system.
Contribute to the creation of different videos about struggle in the world!
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http://tv.viacampesina.orgThe material found on this site is not the official voice of La Via Campesina, but a more open space composed of sounds and images of the broader movement for food sovereignty. The position papers, press releases and other articles of La Via Campesina can be found at www.viacampesina.org
La Via Campesina
Via Campesina is an international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers. We are an autonomous, pluralist and multicultural movement, independent of any political, economic, or other type of affiliation. Born in 1993, La Via Campesina now gathers about 150 organisations in 70 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
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