pcsc annual report 2015 (1)
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No matter if we are fewer today, perhaps our cause of defending agroecology, promoting food sovereignty & challenging peasants rights violations is so much bigger, we have to learn and support each other & march ahead amidst of all the challenges
- Briefing with peasants
while organizing rally
and protest at Press
Club Sukkur against
“Seed Act(amendment) Bill, 2014
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Since the start of our PCSC initiative from
January, 2014, based on volunteer actions,
we have tried every possible effort to maximize
our program at gross root level as well as
strengthen relations with likeminded for the
support of our initiatives of engaging with
peasant communities, disseminating issue
based information through popular and
understandable publications and networking
with allies for the cause of agrarian justice.
In 2015, with the support of XminY,
Solidarity Fund, Netherland, we have
started the program of mass mobilization
against Seed Act (amendment) Bill – 2014
through our campaign Promote Food
Sovereignty – Resist Seed Piracy in five
districts of North Sindh as well as organized
the events of peasants’ protests, rallies and
demonstrations against Seed Act Law.
In addition to this, we also had carried out
research based position paper against Seed
Act Law with a couple of wall poster and flyer
material for the understanding of peasant
communities, the other position paper was
published on corporate land grab with the
support of GRAIN. Moreover, campaigning
against Climate Crisis, PCSC also joined the
CSOs network against Global Alliance for
Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA).
Believing in power of unity, since our start we
have used to write our membership request to
various likeminded networks and movements,
and obviously this would take time because of
procedural restrictions, in spite of this, the
support of various local and international
individuals, friends as well as GRIAN and
XminY, Netherland was quite encouraging in
2015.
Dear Friend, among us everyone knows very
well that resisting neoliberals’ corporate
globalization in an environment of pushing their
vibrant funding for the promotion of false
solutions such as, CLIMATE SMART
AGRICULTRE, their counterfeiting strategies
during COP21 at Paris, TiSA or TTIP is highly
challenging for organizations like PCSC in terms
of meager resources and limited opportunities of
capacity building as well as lesser consideration
of providing space in networking/ alliance
platforms.
Like previous year again we stress that there is
dire need of involvement of anti corporate
support in Pakistan, & should be maximum
support of building peoples movements and
encouragements of new initiators working
towards this end. Your involvement in Pakistan
by strengthen people’s movement to keep
masses more informed about the changes in
policies at local, regional and international level
would enable people for resistance that could
pressurize governments to come-up with pro-
people policies.
Irshad Soomro Executive Director
Dear Friend
there is dire
need of
involvement of
anti corporate
support in
Pakistan, &
should be
maximum
support of
building peoples
movements
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Build the capacity of masses to become politically aware & active for the
attainment of equitable & sustainable development & climate justice
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-Briefing with peasants
while campaign
“Promote food sovereignty – Resist
Seed Piracy at Ghotki
Founded on January, 2014 as small nonprofit research and advocacy organization,
registered under Societies Act 1860 at Sukkur (Sindh) Pakistan by a group of
progressive social activists, Peoples Common Struggle Center (PCSC) PCSC
envisions to support small peasantry & working class societies and movements in
order to address the root causes of social, economic, political & agroecolgical issues
driven by WTO, Corporate- Globalization & Neo-liberal policies.
PCSC strives to strengthen the capacity of small and landless peasantries, fisher folks,
informal and formal laborers, women, children, youth, differently able persons,
minorities and indigenous groups of society and work around the areas of: a) Land,
Water & Food Sovereignty, b) Climate Justice & Corporate
Accountability c) Universal Human Rights, Social Protections & Gender Justice.
We also promote local, regional, and international peace, cooperation and solidarity
for the attainment of peaceful progress rejecting all the neo-liberal tactics
of (privatization, militarization, deregulization & trade liberalizations) & stand for the
reinforcement of laws and polices backed by maximum resources based on just, fair
and equitable distribution for less advantaged groups of society, without any
discrimination of race & religion.
Document and disseminate progressive research & analysis in
a popular and understandable manner, focusing on social
injustices, economic disparities, ecological degradations & climate
change
Build the capacity of people to hold power
accumulators accountable about their socio-economic & political rights, enabling them to actively participate in a process of decision &
policy making for achieving and exercising those rights
Organize, network & collaborate with peoples & movements for the better
understanding of the impacts of WTO,
Globalization, Corporate Control and Neoliberal policies at the cost of
people’s peace & sustainable development at
local, national and international level
Indeed PCSC do not have
any remarkable success in
the year of 2015, because of
its limited sources & initial
engagements process
perhaps we have quite tried
to follow our line of
objectives through out
the process
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Right to Land, water and food is one of the core program of PCSC interventions and this was as important as critical to highlight the issues of corporate as well feudal control over the land water and food resources. Towards this end, PCSC has carried out its research based position paper “Corporate Land Grab: A neoliberal menace in Pakistan” this should be worth mentioning that this position papers is published on GRAINs’ sister site farmlandgrab.org and could be found at http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/24485-corporate-land-grab-a-neoliberal-menace-in-pakistan or https://pcsc4org.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/corporate-land-grab-a-neoliberal-menace-in-pakistan/
Beside this, the other position paper written by PCSC was to expose the
“Corporate Conspiracies to Control over the Seed the Seed Heritage” through the amendment in country “Seed Act law”. The paper aims to critique on “Seed Act amendment Bill – 2014”, its impacts on small and landless farmers, the international political context of WTOs TRIPS, CBD, UPOV and the level of resistance in Pakistan against such bill. We are thankful to XminY Netherland Solidarity Fund for the financial support of this study as well as GRAIN for writing forward for this paper. The publication can be found at https://pcsc4org.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/corporate-conspiracy-to-control-over-seed-heritage.pdf
For the purpose of community
mobilization and developing
peasants basic understanding
towards the immediate policy
issues, Peoples Common
Struggle Center (PCSC) also
published the IEC material
highlighting the impacts of
Seed Act (amendment) Bill –
2014. The material was
disseminated during the
peasants mobilization
campaigns “Promote food sovereignty – Resist Seed
Piracy” The IEC material was based on pictorial & narrative
information on presentation,
wall posters and flyers.
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To know more about this campaign visit here
https://pcsc4org.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/promote-food-
sovereignty-resist-seed-piracy/
Exposing off the conspiracies of
corporate greed in Pakistan
through “Seed Act Bill – 2014” passed by the National Assembly
of Pakistan, PCSC through its
campaign “Promote Food Sovereignty - Resist Seed Piracy”
engaged small and land less
farmers in five districts of North
Sindh.
The purposes of this campaign was
to aware, educate and familiarize
the peasantry societies about the
conspiracies of dirty profiteering
seed companies as well as sensitize
them to resist for the cause of
Food Sovereignty at local, national
and international level.
Defending the cause of Food Sovereignty
Small and land less peasantries from
various districts of Northern Sindh as a
result of PCSC campaign “Promote Food Sovereignty – Resist Seed Piracy” came forward in streets to protest against “Seed Act (amendment) Bill 2014” & denounced the law as a tool of exacerbating the food
dependency.
Peoples Common Struggle Center (PCSC)
accompanied with small and landless
farmers organized rallies & protests &
condemned the proposed legislation and
spread the word that “they will not allow the corporate seed conspirators to control
over their seed heritage”.
To know more about this campaign visit here
https://pcsc4org.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/farmers
-denounce-seed-act-law-as-a-tool-of-food-dependency/
Fostering the demand of agriculture laborer as
formal laborer, Peoples Common Struggle Center
(PCSC) accompanied with civil society members and
farmers exchanged the grim conditions of small and
landless agriculture labor force of Pakistan which is
exacerbating day by day through maneuvering of
local laws with the collusion transnational agriculture
corporations.
On this occasion, participants in the event were also
briefed about the role of WTO, IFIs and their
neoliberal policies to control over the agriculture of
Third World Countries under the protection laws of
Intellectual Property Rights & Agreement on
Agriculture etc.
On the occasion of May Day (Labor Day) Peoples Common Struggle Center (PCSC)
organized “Civil Society Dialogue on Seed Act (amendment) Bill – 2014 & Agriculture Labor
Force of Pakistan” objective of the event was to strengthen the struggle of agriculture labor
force of Pakistan for reclaiming their rights on natural resources i.e., land, seed, water and
forests.
Defending the cause of peoples
Climate Justice, with local and
international like minded
organizations Peoples Common
Struggle Center (PCSC) jointed the
World CSOs struggle against Global
Alliance for Climate Smart
Agriculture (GACSA). Being a CSO
member of StopGACSA network,
PCSC accompanied with other
member organizations from Pakistan
had organized a demonstration
against CLIMAT – SMART
AGRTICULURE and denounced
this illusionized agenda as the
corporate conspiracy to impose the
false solutions of climate change on
small and landless peasantries of the
world.
To know more about this news visit
here https://pcsc4org.wordpress.com
/2015/09/21/climate-smart-agriculture-
must-not-be-confused-with-agroecology-
civil-society-from-pakistan-says-no-to-gacsa/
Beside this, PCSC through its webpage, mailing and twitter
account has widely circulate and propagate the campaigns,
struggles, success stories and publications of the peasant
rights organizations, movements & networks of the world
such as La ViaCampsina, Asian Peasant Coalition (APC),
GRAIN, farmlandgrab.org, billetralls.org, Rainforest
Movement, STOP Land Grabbing, Development Justice
and many others.
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Drawing print and
electronic media coverage
towards the issues of
peasants’ socio-economic
conditions through our
campaigns is one of the
core source of spreading
rapid information to rural
communities and societies
from other walks of life.
During the year 2015,
PCSC have had draw a
reasonable coverage of its
campaign Promote food
sovereignty – Resist seed
piracy in local print and
electronic media.
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PCSC in Action
Program Cost
(275000)
54% Operational
Cost (85000)
16%
Organizational
Development
(40000)
8%
Publication
(65000)
13%
Personal Cost
(45000)
9%
Total Expenses Rs. 510000
Assets Funding Philanthropy Income
(Rs)
Consultancy Income
(Rs) Total (Rs)
Balance as on 31-12-2014 - 10,900 10,900
Income During 2015 115, 000 180,000 225,000 520,000
Expenditure During-2015 115,000 180,000 215,000 510,000
Balance as on 31-12-2015 - 10,000 20,900
XminY, Fund,
(115000)
22%
Philinthiropy
(180000)
35%
Consultancy
225000
43%
Total Income Rs. 520000
This should be worth mentioning that since the start of our PCSC initiative form January,
2014, we have team-up with some handful local activists, but due to our work dedication we
are now multiplying by collaborating & support with different local & regional
individuals, organizations, networks and peoples movements for our work of campaigning,
research, advocacy & capacity building; among which during the year of 2015, following have
collaborate with us in terms membership, capacity building & financial support of our current
and past interventions.
supports & encourage PCSC in carrying out research and publication material
for education, awareness and mobilization of the individuals, farmers and
landless communities at local and regional level. We also engage with GRAIN through
regular exchange of information sharing for the cause of building agrarian justice
movement
Supported financial donation for PCSC campaign “Promote food sovereignty, Resist Seed Piracy” in five districts of North Sindh
(Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Kandhkot @ Kashmore, Sukkur, & Ghotki)
PARLR is a network of local communities, civil society organizations & political parties that
works to hold corporations accountable to ensure the rights of local communities on their
resource. Beside, being a member of organization of PARLR, PCSC also
holds a consultative status with PARLR.
Bashirabad Colony, North
West Canal, Military Road
(Sukkur) Sindh PH # + 92- 312–8092822 pcsc.org@gmail.com pcsc4org.wordpress.com
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