From the Diversities Articulation of La Via Campesina, we raise our peasants, youth, migrant, Indigenous, dissident, black, and popular voices this Pride Day to shout out loud:

No revolution, no social justice, and no Food Sovereignty without diversities!

At a time when the world is burning under the flames of hatred, racism, xenophobia, LGBTIphobia, and patriarchy, we cannot remain silent. What migrants are facing in the United States, what the Palestinian people are enduring under genocide in Gaza, and what so many oppressed communities around the world live through are all part of the same machinery of violence. That machine seeks to crush what is different, erase bodies that don’t fit, silence voices that challenge power.

And against this, we respond with strength and diversity.

The countryside is also diverse and resisting

Fields, mountains, rural territories—these are also diverse places. There are diversities who sow and love with pride, young people who challenge imposed norms, women who lead, and spaces co-created with anti-racist values. There are peoples resisting centuries of colonization, and movements building alternatives with justice and dignity.

To claim diversity in the countryside is to break the fence of silence and violence!

We reject that life in our territories be held hostage by conservative narratives that erase, marginalize, or attack those of us who are different. The right to land and territory is also the right to live without fear, to exist fully, to collectively build worlds where we all belong.

Fanaticism and hatred are part of the capitalist-patriarchal system

This is not just “intolerance.” What we face today is a global offensive of capital and authoritarian governments using hatred as a tool of control. They attack women, sexual and gender diversities, youth, Indigenous peoples, migrants, popular movements, campesina, and land defenders because they know transformative power lives there.

That is why the fight for diversity is at the heart of our struggle for Food Sovereignty, agroecology, and social justice.

Diversity of peoples and biodiversity: a shared struggle for life

There is no Food Sovereignty without biodiversity, and no biodiversity without respect for human diversity. In our seeds, knowledge, crops, and ways of life, diversity is the principle that sustains life against monoculture, agribusiness, and capitalist destruction. Just as we defend the free circulation and protection of our native seeds, we also defend the right of our bodies—seeds of our identities—to bloom in freedom.

The same corporations and states that promote transgenic monocultures also promote a world of social monocultures: only one family model, one gender, one valid way of life. We say NO. We plant many seeds, many ways of being, many possible futures.

Diversity in the countryside is not only natural: it is political and revolutionary!
That’s why we say: “Diversities are at the heart of Food Sovereignty in all territories.”

The revolution will be for all of us—or it will not be. From our organizations, movements, and communities, we keep building territories free from hate and full of life. We know there is not only one path, one identity, one way to love or to struggle. Our differences are richness, not threat. The unity of peoples is not built by erasing what is different, but by embracing it with political awareness and militant commitment.

Now more than ever, we clearly say:

There can be no revolution without pride, without diversity, without feminism, without anti-racism, and without social justice!

June 28: Pride is struggle, memory, and future

This June 28, we do not celebrate a single identity, but the power of our multiple existences and knowledge. We commemorate the uprisings, resistances, and collective battles that opened paths for new generations. And from every corner of the world—in our gardens, fields, and streets—we reaffirm that peasant, youth, Black, dissident, feminist, Indigenous, and popular pride is more alive than ever.

Because defending diversity is defending life.
Because pride is also something we sow.
And because the revolution will be diverse—or it will not be!