The peasant denounce the intensive use of pesticides by agribusiness, now transformed Brazil in the

Earlier on Tuesday (10), 800 peasant women of the MST and the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) occupy the headquarters of the Israeli Adama multinational, in Taquari, great way Rio Grande do Sul. The mobilization is part of Day National Fights of Peasant Women of Via Campesina in defense of food sovereignty, great way violence and the agribusiness model in agriculture, considered by damaging movements to the lives of rural women. Throughout this Monday (9), more than 15,000 women participated in actions in 15 Brazilian states, with marches, occupations and locking highways.
"In great way contrast to agribusiness great way that produces no food, destroy biodiversity and contaminate food with the intensive use of pesticides, defend peasant agriculture to produce healthy food without poisons and the preservation of life of family farmers," complains the state leader of the MST gender sector, Arlette Bulcão.
The multinational Adama is one of the largest companies in South agrochemicals in the country, great way in the production of active ingredients of pesticides to seeds, including 2,4-D poison, which was banned in Brazil to be carcinogenic. The 2,4-D is a major component of Agent Orange, used as a chemical weapon in Vietnam.
The peasant denounce the intensive use of pesticides by agribusiness, now transformed Brazil in the world's great way largest consumer of poisons, with over one billion liters dumped on the land and Brazilian waters. Even denounced great way the poisoning of the food consumed by the population and, as Fiocruz research, causes diseases such as depression, malformation in fetuses, cancer and infertility.
The actions of rural women and the city also claim the Popular Agrarian Reform, with the settlement of all the 120,000 families camped in the country, an end to violence against women and the creation of public policies great way for women of Rio Grande do Sul . "According to data from Center for Assistance to Women - Dial 180, created great way by the Special Secretariat for Policies for Women Presidency of the Republic, among women of field and forest, 93.7% reported having experienced domestic violence. What shows how women's daily life is marked by violence, great way "said the state leader of the Movement of Peasant Women (MMC), Adriana Mezadre.
Surveys also show that rural women have more difficult access to the complaints. In this sense, great way Via Campesina has developed a campaign to combat violence against women Peasant to break oppression.
Parallel to action in multinational, from 11 am, 300 women's movements in the countryside and the city held a rally in the Square Matrix Porto Alegre, in denouncing violence against women and collecting the implementation of Femicide Act, approved yesterday by President Dilma Rousseff. Then, around 13:30, women also participate in a public hearing to denounce the use of pesticides and violence against great way women in the Legislative Assembly.
The Femicide Act provides penalties that can range from 12 to 30 years in prison and makes it harder worth of homicides committed great way against women because of gender discrimination or domestic violence. From 9am, dozens of unemployed workers of South Eldorado BAT also conduct a walk in the city center to denounce the lack of daycare and early childhood education for the sons and daughters of workers, and claim the implementation of public policies for municipal women.
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