[Iyf-ct] FW: : Free screening of a powerful documentary about a progressive small scale farmer social movement in South Africa

[Andreas Spath]

Sorry I'm posting a lot, but thought people might be interested in this...

Andreas

--- On Wed, 7/21/10, Tennille <tennille at spp.org.za> wrote:

From: Tennille <tennille at spp.org.za>
Subject: FW: : Free screening of a powerful documentary about a progressive small scale farmer social movement in South Africa
To: Andreas_Spath at yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 10:25 AM




 
 







   

   

Agrarian Reform for Food Sovereignty
Campaign is a
short (37min), but powerful documentary film by Kurt Orderson a 28-year old
filmmaker from Cape Town. 

  

In 1652 the arrival of the
Dutch in the Cape signaled the beginning of a violent and destructive process,
which placed their greed for land and possessions before the rights of the
original inhabitants of the land. Suddenly, throughout the Cape, and indeed
throughout Africa, following the arrival of other European colonizers, Land,
which belonged to Africans, was marked as the private property of Europeans who
enslaved Africans. 

  

Today, The Right to
Agrarian Reform for Food Sovereignty Campaign is asking critical questions
about the lack of transformation and land reform in South Africa, post
apartheid, and through popular education have mobilized people to recognize
their ancestral rights and reclaim land for the purpose of black, emerging,
small scale, agro ecological farming . 

  

It is clear that despite an
oppressive history, Africans are no longer willing to be figured as oppressed
and exploited and are actively fighting this legacy ideologically, politically
and physically. There must be constant renewal of the struggle to fight new enemies
including a capitalist system which sees a black democratic government
undermine its own people and support white commercial farmers for the sake of
profit before people. The agrarian revolution is calling to all who want their
basic human rights to be met: recognition of an honorable past, the past which
came before the arrival of the colonizer in Africa, and economic and food
security, indeed prosperity for future generations must be fought for, by any
means necessary. 

  

This event
is presented at the Labia by Surplus People Project 

  

Contact 

  

Surplus
People Project 

Tel:021 448 5605 

Email: spp at spp.org.za 

  

The Labia 

Tel: 021
424 5927 

   

   


 
  
   
  
  
  TENNILLE RODE

  Cape Town Administrator/RIA Support 
  CAPE TOWN

  45 Collingwood Road, OBSERVATORY 7925

  Tel: 021 448 5605

  Fax: 021 448 0105

  Email: tennille at spp.org.za

  www.spp.org.za
   
  
 
 
  
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