[SustainableTompkins] Event: Free trade and the Rural Crisis in Latin America

[Allison L H Jack]

Hi everyone,

NWAEG at Cornell (www.rso.cornell.edu/nwaeg) and the Latin American Studies 
Program are hosting 4 visiting Latin American campesino community 
organizers to talk about their experiences with land reform movements in 
Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Brasil.

We will also be having a breakfast meeting that morning for anyone 
interested in speaking in depth with the visitors about potential 
collaborations etc. Please contact me if you are interested in attending 
the breakfast. Allison Jack alh54 at cornell.edu.

Hope you can join us.

-Allison

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Free Trade and the Rural Crisis in Latin America

Panel Discussion & Reception
Monday September 17th 12:20 pm
233 Plant Science Building
Moderator TBA

Juan Tiney – Guatemala – [CONIC]
Coordinadora Nacional Indigena y Campesina
General Coordinator of CONIC, the National Peasant and Indigenous 
Coordinating Organization with 80,000 members in Guatemala,
95% of them indigenous. CONIC focuses on land rights and improved access to 
services.

Pilar Jurado – Colombia – [ANUC-UR]
Asociacion Nacional de Usarios Campesinos
Colombia’s National Association of Campesino Farmers (ANUC-UR) is dedicated 
to defending the rights of campesinos in Colombia
and internationally. ANUC-UR is fighting for agrarian reform, to return 
displaced campesinos to their land, and for food sovereignty.

Milton Fornaziere – Brazil – [MST]
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra
National leader of the Landless Workers Movement (MST). The MST works for 
agricultural reform in Brazil and has helped over 350,000
families occupy and farm idle land.

Diogenes Lucio – Ecuador – [FENOCIN]
La Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones Campesinas, Indígenas y Negras
Representative of the National Federation of Peasant, Indigenous, and Black 
Organizations. FENOCIN was founded in the early 1960s
out of the social movements for land reform and indigenous rights. The 
group represents 1300 organizations, who themselves represent
over 200,000 people.

This event is part of the Campesino in Residence program through Rutgers 
University. Sponsors at Cornell include the New World Agriculture and 
Ecology Group (NWAEG) at Cornell, the Latin American Studies Program and 
the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Finance Commission. This 
event is free and open to the public.



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Allison L H Jack
Graduate Student
Department of Plant Pathology
Cornell University
335 Plant Science
Ithaca, NY 14850
607.273.5762
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