speech from gentil from mst brasil (english - portuguès)

speech from gentil of the brasilian landless workers' movement during the ceremony of the giving back of the seeds, bonn, May 19th 2008. He talks about the seeds, and also about the murderous behavior of syngenta in brasil.

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[GimlieGirl16]

Part 3

An example of this, in the southern states of Brasil, we still have very very few, almost not remaining, non genetically modified soya(?) seeds.

In defense of our natural resources in Brasil, a collegue of ours, a collegue of mine, was killed by the Syngenta.

But our collegue is still alive, and he is still alive, because we will make so that the seeds are the property of all the poeple. The seeds will be the property of the people. Globalize the struggle! Globalize the hope!

[GimlieGirl16]

We are very happy with the research the institute has conducted, and they try to rescue the farmer seed, the indigenous seeds, the creolia seeds.

The big corporations in Brasil, such as Syngenta and Monsanto, in the name of profit, are invading some of the territories.

And they exploit not only the natural resources, they exploit the workers and they take ownership of their lands.

[GimlieGirl16]

A (rough) transcript of the video: Part 1

Good afternoon our collegues, our friends

I would like to welcome here a representative of the women farmers in Brazil, Noami, to give her back the seeds, for in the story, the women were the ones were the ones who kept the seeds, so this is why we are giving them back the seeds. We make so that she keeps the seeds, because we know the women will take care of them.

[GimlieGirl16]

Globalize the struggle! Globalize the hope!

Noone has the right to privatize life itself, and that means our seeds, our lands, our water, the air all belongs to all of us, and it's up to all of us to protect it.