La Via Campesina
From Anarchy In Action
Established in 1993, La Via Campesina, meaning The Peasant's Way, is a network of an estimated 200 million small farmers in 81 countries. Their direct action-oriented strategy and horizontal organizational structure have much in common with the horizontal unionist strategy of Green Syndicalism. Member organizations include Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement which has seized land where 150,000 families currently reside.
La Via Campesina has 9 regions.[1] Each region has a face-to-face decision-making assembly that nominates 3 delegates to meet at the International Conference every 3 to 4 years. That conference forms the Internal Coordinating Commission with 2 representatives, one man and one woman, form each region.[2]
- ↑ https://www.jpic-jp.org/t/3-la-via-campesina-international-peasants-mouvement.
- ↑ Michael Mesner, "Transnational Participatory Democracy in Action: The Case of La Via Campesina," Journal of Social Philosophy 39, no. 1 (2008): 20-41.
