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The declaration demands of the independent farmers union

The Land Center for Human Rights held a meeting on Thursday, 24/2/2011 at its residence in Cairo with a group of farmers and lawyers. It was about a lot of the problems of farmers with the State and all its bodies of those problems brought about by the former regime remained peasants suffer from it for many years trying to distress all the official authorities which they can reach it without any hope for change, they were crying out to those who wronged them victory!!!
But after the revolution of January 25th after the end of the previous regime in all its horror and grievances opened the gates of light and hope to learn from everyone and did not know the meaning of the dream do not dream of learning how to take the right to dream and to have a hope of a decent life better tomorrow.
The meeting lasted from eleven o'clock am to five o'clock pm, in the presence of a number (95) participants between the farmers affected and lawyers from Cairo and from different provinces of Upper and Lower Egypt, it is Upper Egypt participated peasants from the governorates: Fayoum, Beni Suef, Qena, Sohag, and Lower Egypt Share peasants from the provinces: Kafr El-Sheikh, Gharbia, Qaliubiya, and Behira.
An open discussion about some of the problems that took place during the past and present perceptions about the development of solutions to those problems The meeting was headed by professor Mahmoud Fouad and Mr. Karam Saber, who opened the meeting by welcoming the attendees and spoke about the important lesson, which gave us Revolution January 25 is the importance of teamwork and goal setting to reach the desired, and then asked everyone to observe a minute of mourning for the souls of the martyrs who paid with their lives for the homeland Egypt and to change for the better then introduced Mr. Mahmoud Mortada head of the Center for Alternative Development of talk.
Some issues were discussed like: - The low standard of living and the absence of the right of people to earn a decent living and the availability of a minimum income and that the peasants have the land they live on and cultivate.
- Political bloc into a single party has shrunk in his hand all the authorities represented in the National Party - The continued state of emergency, including emergency laws during the last thirty years is the era of President Mubarak, the law has been renewed periodically by the Council of the People
- Corruption which had gone beyond all the levels and degrees of community not only to some officials, but also spread from the top of the pyramid to its base and there was a lot of hints at the involvement of the president himself in some.
The Land Centre address the issue of sectarianism in Egypt and the political use of religion before the events directly and how deep was the fear controls all of Egypt's entry in the sectarian conflict and how we emphasized that we are all Muslims and Christians, must agree on our common interests. Then the revolution came and emphasized that we are all one and we saw pictures of a Christian woman pours water for a Muslim to wash for prayers also Christians set up in parallel with their fellow Muslims on Friday mass in Tahrir Square, the first time in the history of the Egyptian Church, which held a Mass outside the church was the Muslims, Christians and veiled women and veiled women as well as non-veiled He also pointed to the failure to monitor any case of harassment or even an attempt to contention between the protesters, a great spectacle and a supervisor before the world was wonderful that the most important logos, O Egypt Lift your head up
The previous regime has made corruption prevail in Egypt after it was the pride of the earth for thousands of years and created the culture 4000 years before its existence. He emphasized the role of the peasantry in the revolution and how they have played a role in the last minute through social protest, not protests Class as it was called the former regime, we find Assiut, for example a country with privacy, where half the families, Muslims and half Christians the day following the delegation of authority went out half of the country more than half million people as well as in Damanhur Damietta, and other must be complete because this is our country, not lackeys of the country.
It was assured that all houses in Egypt were harmed by the former regime in a way or another; that was included in the meeting agenda to discuss the special problems of the land of the peasants they grow and they live and their right to own different circumstances and titles and then asked the audience viewed their problems and demands in the coming period.
The main problems that we talked about are:
• Agricultural land reform and the eligibility of farmers in the ownership in dispute with prosecutors property
• Housing and ranches inhabited by peasants and the land they cultivate and the extent of their right to ownership
• Tenants who are evicted from their land in 1997 because of the application of the law in 1996 to 92
• Agricultural land reclamation its problems multi- • affected by the law of landlord and tenant and who have become victims of the 1994 Act
• Law of the relationship between landlord and tenant of agricultural land
• Law of agricultural cooperation so as to allow farmers to form ties and associations freely and independently from state agencies to enable them to rural development. • Debt and Development Bank, agricultural credit and multiple problems and the absence of the role that established the role of
And they had a number of demands, including:
- Ownership of land to the peasants who cultivate or inhabit
- Treatment of their problems with the Bank for Development and Agricultural Credit and cancel their debts, which has doubled in terrible than the original amount several times
- Drop the provisions that were in the right Almtbeefin them about the payment and the release of prisoners
- Abolition of property taxes due on the lands of farmers and other
Hence, they were asked by Mr. Karam, "How will we make our demands reach the officials in the coming period?" There were numerous suggestions and varied between recourse to the Attorney General where he is acting on behalf of the Egyptian people and other suggestions and was wondering who was to stop him delivered with Muhammad in the simplicity of where he said: How will I make my voice reach them? Will we stand up in the street and sing? Who speaks for us?
Hence, all the attendants stressed on the core of the problem and the solution is to have the farmers are represented by independent trade union for farmers who meet a set of conditions was agreed to do so and has been writing the agreement in the form of a constituent meeting of the union was agreed that the next meeting at the Journalists Syndicate and be announced on the union in Tahrir Square on Friday and the annex to the agreement that was built in the Declaration of the Association.