Reposting this call from Grain. Pls. sign this appeal and help put a stop to this reprehensible global land grabs!
During the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal, in February 2011, social movements and organisations released a collective appeal against land grabbing. Over 150 organisations have already signed. If your organisation would also like to support this appeal, please do so before 15 June 2011.
The Dakar Appeal, together with the names of organisations endorsing it, will be presented during the mobilizations against the G20 Agriculture Ministers’ meeting in Paris on 22-23 June.
Read and sign the petition here: http://www.petitiononline.com/dakar/petition.html