The worsening food crisis is generating greater resistance to defending the right to land. Rural people across the world are resisting imperialism – the world’s biggest landgrabber.
Neoliberal policies enabling landgrabs, such as those promoted by the upcoming WB Land Conference in May, are facing backlash worldwide. Imperialist wars and state repression are also defied, as we have seen in the continuing Palestinian resistance and the growing global solidarity against the US-Israel genocidal war. The landless are standing their ground to challenge unjust land laws and urge for genuine agrarian reform through land occupations.
Asserting our right to land is exercising our right to resist, and we do so in all its forms to break the chains of imperialism – including its neoliberal reforms and aggression – that bleed our land and food systems dry of profit and blood.
As such, we are marking this year’s Day of the Landless with the call “Assert our right to land, exercise our right to resist!”
The Day of the Landless was originally coined by the Asian Peasant Coalition in 2015, marking its founding anniversary. The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty has adopted DOTL in 2018 as an annual global action to give spotlight on the issue of global landlessness and highlight the land struggles of rural peoples in the Global South.
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This year’s DOTL campaign is designed to extend until May, in time for the World Bank Land Conference (13-17 May 2024) and Palestine’s Day of Return (15 May). May is also the ILPS Global Month of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Hold community-level/local buildup actions particularly in the week leading to the global days of action.
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JOIN THE GLOBAL DAYS OF ACTION. Express our assertion for people’s right to 
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REGISTER YOUR EVENT. Share with us your local activities and actions in contribution to this year’s DOTL commemoration. Please email the details to secretariat@pcfs.global to be included in the lineup of the 2024 DOTL activities.
SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY. Amplify the calls of rural people’s movements and show support for each other’s campaigns. Post them on social media with the hashtag #DayOfTheLandless and #OurLandOurResistance so that we could also share.his year’s DOTL is organized by the Asian Peasant Coalition, People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty, Int’l Indigenous People’s Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation, and PAN Asia Pacific. The campaign is also part of the Global People’s Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice and the Silenced Suffering.
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