This statement has come out of the US Social Forum process, specifically the People’s Movement Assembly on Food Sovereignty. It’s my understanding that these statements represent the collective positions of the community of organizations participating in the Social Forum process, but that there is not necessarily consensus behind each part of each statement among every participating organization.

In other words, the declaration in the first part of the statement reflects a vision that is commonly shared among participants in this process. Some of those participants have declared that they will pursue various actions and objectives in line with those stated principles. But that doesn’t mean that every organization that promotes food sovereignty as part of this process has to subscribe to (or even have any position whatsoever on) any of the specific items in that bulleted list. This is a movement, and it can be messy, but there appears to be room for all kinds of perspectives and ideologies within it. At least, I sure hope there is