Reclaim the Fields

Today, 26th of April in the morning hours the fruitful and multifaceted land occupation in Vienna was raided by a private security company, in the name of the agricultural university - the University of life as they call themselves.8 days of vivid planting, collective life and constructive work were torn to shreds.

The Land, that was already full of plants and seeds as well as containers and huts, glasshouses etc were destroyed by excavators, tractors and caterpillars.

We are raided but we continue our struggle for land!!!

 The Community Food Growers Network invites you to a day of public events exploring why Genetically Modified (GM) crops pose a threat to sustainable food production, what the GM industry is doing here in Britain, and how we as ordinary people can support alternative, sustainable and socially just food systems.

Nehmen wir den 17. April, den Tag des kleinbäuerlichen Widerstands zum Anlass, um unsere Vorstellungen einer zukunftsfähigen und sozialen Stadt-Landwirtschaft in die Praxis umzusetzen.
Wir wollen auch in Wien diesen Tag nutzen um die Thematik Zugang zu Land hier und global zu diskutieren und uns konkret Zugang zu Land verschaffen und dieses dauerhaft beleben.
Wir sind gekommen um zu bleiben!

So sind wir Teil der globalen und lokalen Kämpfe um Land und den Landnahmen und vielfältigen Aktionen, die jedes Jahr am 17. April stattfinden.

Yesterday, the 2nd of March, another sign against TAV was planted in the city of Turin. Around 60 activists from Reclaim the Fields occupied a piece of land between Corso Marche and Corso Francia. In a few hours the letters NO TAV were carved from the earth and seeded with a variety of grains and peach trees. The action took place on common land that will be privatised and demolished if the highspeed train line between Lyon and Turin (TAV) is built.

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Just one day after the violent eviction of the motorway blockade on Wednesday 80 RTF activists joined the No-TAV movement to re-occupying the motorway in Susa valley. While about 2000 people blocked the motorway close to the exit of Chianocco another blockade was set up in the higher Susa Valley. At the same time the central station in Turin was occupied and solidarity actions happened in more then 40 other cities all over Italy.

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The Reclaim the Fields bulletins aims at facilitating the information transmission between the stars of the constellation, sharing the latest news and the current state of the process amongst the people or collectives already involved and allowing new people to catch up and join us, having at disposition the necessary background texts and a history of the debates.

Bulletin nº5, February 2012

• Who are we?

Outcomes of the camp in Rosia Montana

Here is an Italian version of the first 4 editions of the RtF bulletin:

• light version to be read on a screen
• high-quality version to be printed

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• 24th to 28th February, 2012 (Reclaim the Seeds gathering)
• 29th February to 4th March, 2012 (Reclaim the Fields)

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This is a call out for support.

On the 6th January the Forest of Dean Eco village reclaimed an environmental education centre closed by the cuts, we intend to reopen it and run it as a free education space for the local community and beyond.

Transnationaler Aktionstag für Save Roşia Montană

Am 1. Dezember fanden in verschiedenen Städten Europas Aktionen in Solidarität mit der „Save Rosia Montana“-Kampagne in Rumänien statt.