Tierra, aceite y vida en libertad

Finished 25 / 11 / 2017
Funded!
Received
$ 9,134
Minimum
$ 4,168
Optimum
$ 11,115
213 Co-financiers
Channel
  • Contributing $ 5

    Garrafita de 0,25L de aceite de primera prensa

    Pequeña garrafa de aceite de primera prensa de la aceituna del Cerro Libertad. De 0,25 litros. (GASTOS DE ENVÍO NO INCLUIDOS)

    > 08 Co-financiers
  • Contributing $ 11

    Garrafita de 0,5L de aceite de primera prensa

    Pequeña garrafa de aceite de primera prensa del Cerro Libertad. 0,5L. (GASTOS DE ENVÍO NO INCLUIDOS)

    > 32 Co-financiers
  • Contributing $ 21

    Botella de 1 litro de aceite de primera prensa

    Botella de 1 litro de aceite de primera prensa de la aceituna del Cerro Libertad. (GASTOS DE ENVÍO NO INCLUIDOS)

    > 31 Co-financiers
  • Contributing $ 32

    Botella de 2 litros de aceite de primera prensa

    Botella de 2 litros de aceite de primera prensa de la aceituna del Cerro Libertad. (GASTOS DE ENVÍO NO INCLUIDOS)

    > 29 Co-financiers
  • Contributing $ 53

    Botella de 3 litros de aceite de primera prensa

    Botella de 3 litros de aceite de primera prensa de la aceituna del Cerro Libertad. (Pago de gastos de envío dentro del Estado español)

    > 39 Co-financiers
  • Contributing $ 105

    Garrafa de 8 litros de aceite de primera prensa

    Garrafa de 8 litros de aceite de primera prensa de la aceituna del Cerro Libertad. (Pago de gastos de envío dentro del Estado español)

    > 18 Co-financiers

About this project

On April the 1st, when SAT trade unionist Andrés Bódalo was completing a year in prison, the SAT occupied a 75 hectares olive farm abandoned for five years by BBVA bank. Since then it is being recovered and worked.

Needs Material Minimum Optimum
Recogida de aceituna
Se hacen necesarias las herramientas para varear los olivos y recoger la aceituna (varas, varas mecánicas, lienzos, sacos, etc), también el medio de transporte para llevar la aceituna desde el campo hasta el molino (coche o tractor) y también las herramientas para la posterior limpieza y poda de los olivos (sopladoras, motosierras). Comisiones campaña (10% comisiones Goteo y Hacienda)
$ 3,789
Needs Infrastructure Minimum Optimum
Comisiones de la campaña (mínimo)
Comisiones campaña (Goteo y hacienda, en torno al 10%)
$ 379
Mini almazara
Para completar el ciclo económico es necesario un molino que permita obtener el aceite de la aceituna que se recoja. La mini-almazara constaría de un molino (800€), una batidora térmica (2600€), una prensa (800€) y 2 depósitos decantadores de 1000L (1800€)
$ 6,316
Comisiones de la campaña
Comisiones campaña (Goteo y hacienda, en torno al 10%)
$ 632
Total $ 4,168 $ 11,115
Necessary
Supplemental

General information

In Andalusia, 6% of landowners own 66% of the land, while there are still more than half a million peasant laborers landless. The unequal distribution of land is one of the bases of the great inequality, social injustice and impoverishment existing in Andalusia, which put it at the top of all the negative rankings of poverty, precariousness and unemployment at European level.

Of the 8 provinces that compose Andalusia, Jaén is the one that has the most unemployment, 31% at the moment. It is a province dependent on agriculture, especially monoculture of the olive grove. The economic crisis of 2007 made the banks to repossess large fams to construction companies that have invested in land, either to diversify activities or to speculate with the land in urban operations.

One of these farms was the farm of the Cortijo del Aguardentero and the hillside of the Cerro de San Cristóbal. A farm of 75H, 65 of them of olive grove in the municipal term of the city of Jaén. In 2012 the bank BBVA seized the property to its owners for defaults of a debt of about 3 million euros. Since then the farm has been abandoned to its fate: the olive was not collected, it was not created a single job or a liter of oil, the cortijo (typical house of the Andalusian countryside) was deprived, doors, windows, cables .. all. The absolute abandonment.

On March the 30th 2016, the SAT trade unionist Andrés Bódalo, a native of a town in Jaén, Jódar, was imprisoned in a lawsuit on the occasion of an action claiming work and land for his people, the village with more landless of Andalusia, 3500 of a population on 2012.

On April the 1st, 2017 after an intense year of struggle for Andres freedom, from SAT we decided that the best way to remember that he had been in prison for a year was to do what he did when he was free: to occupy land and recover it for the people. So we did, and that's how we spent half a year giving life to what before the greed and speculation of the bank had only brought abandonment and ruin.

It would not have been possible to face this half a year without the solidarity of so many people who have contributed materially, economically and humanely to Cerro Libertá project. Now we face the campaign of the olive and it takes another tide of solidarity to help us equip ourselves with all the tools and means necessary to collect the fruits that will give the precious liquid gold.
That is the reason for this crowfounding, make possible to produce oil, in a free land, lived in freedom.

Main features and goals of the crowdfunding campaign

This crowfounding helps a part of what would be the general project of Cerro Libertad: the collection of olives. But the project goes further since it deals with the agroecological integral management of the farm, and this means diversifying the crop (other tree crops such as fruit trees, almonds or pistachios, orchards, etc.) and adding other activities such as beekeeping or livestock. But at the present time the main source of wealth is the olive grove. A very deteriorated olive grove for 5 years of abandonment, but with capacity to produce.

The main strength and difference at the same time is to be the largest land recovery in Europe against bank speculation, it must therefore be a project that can not be ignored by those who believe that the common good must rule the world and not the logic of profit for a few and poverty for many .

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Why this is important

The motivation is to build an Andalusia and a fair world with the common goods in the hands of the workers and the people and not in the hands of the bank. The project is aimed at anyone who shares this ideal of justice and freedom. To those who also think that the production of something as basic as food must be in the hands of peasants and not of banks and transnationals that only seek their own benefit, although that is a cost of hunger and the health of humanity

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Goals of the crowdfunding campaign

Obtain the necessary resources to be able to acquire the tools that are required to collect the olive and produce the oil of the 7052 olive trees that are in Cerro Libertad

Team and experience

Cerro Libertad has rural workers, and people who have also worked in other sectors. It coincides in the same people activists and unionists of the SAT. Some of them participate in other campaigns of collective financing like the Historical File of Peasants Struggles, realized in 2015.

Social commitment

Sustainable Development Goals

  • Decent Work and Economic Growth

    Sustainable economic growth will require societies to create the conditions that allow people to have quality jobs.

  • Reduced Inequalities

    To reduce inequalities, policies should be universal in principle, paying attention to the needs of disadvantaged and marginalized populations.

  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

    There needs to be a future in which cities provide opportunities for all, with access to basic services, energy, housing, transportation and more.

  • Responsible Production and Consumption

    Responsible Production and Consumption

  • Life On Land

    Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss