FRUGA
Galician Rural Federation
Federación Rural Galega
Founded2009
HeadquartersSantiago de Compostela[1]
Location
Key people
Xurxo Álvarez
Websitefruga.org

The Galician Rural Federation (FRUGA, Federación Rural Galega in Galician language) is a Galician farmers and breeders union centered on family farms and small peasants. The organization has its origins in a split of the Sindicato Labrego Galego-Comisións Labregas (SLG) in 2009. The splitters, that later founded FRUGA, wanted the SLG to take a closer political line to the Galician Nationalist Bloc and the Galician People's Union.[2][3] FRUGA is particularly strong among milk cows small farmers.[4]

Ideology

FRUAG has a Galician nationalist and left-wing ideology. The union has very strong links with the Galician Nationalist Bloc, the Confederación Intersindical Galega and the Galician People's Union. The union also supports cooperativism, food sovereignty, feminism, Galician independence[5] and ecologism. FRUGA is a member of the Galician Rural Alliance, an organization whose main objective is to fight against mining projects in Galicia.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ "FederaciĂłn Rural Galega " Locais". Fruga-galiza.org. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  2. ^ "Vieiros: Galiza Hoxe - Constitúese a Federación Rural Galega baixo a presidencia de Xurxo Álvarez". Archived from the original on January 5, 2015. Retrieved January 5, 2015.
  3. ^ "El ex sindicalista del SLG Xurxo Álvarez preside desde ayer la Federación Rural Galega". Lavozdegalicia.es. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  4. ^ "La Fruga apoya la huelga de los productores lácteos – Faro de Vigo". Farodevigo.es. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  5. ^ "Día da Patria: 12 forzas asinan un manifesto a prol da soberanía e a independencia – Social – Sermos Galiza – A Información precisa". Sermosgaliza.gal. July 21, 2013. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  6. ^ Xesus Manuel Piñeiro (March 13, 2013). "Impulsan o xérmolo para crear unha gran plataforma social contra a minaría contaminante – Social – Sermos Galiza – A Información precisa". Sermosgaliza.gal. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  7. ^ "FederaciĂłn Rural Galega " Alianza Rural Galega presenta manifesto contra a minaria contaminante". Fruga-galiza.org. Retrieved March 5, 2015.


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