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March on Brazilian Embassy - April 9, 2012
On April 17, 1996, the Brazilian Military Police opened fire on a march of the landless in the State of Pará. Nineteen landless were 
killed and dozens wounded, many seriously (two more subsequently died). Since that time, no police or government official has served any time in prison. While two officers were convicted of crimes, they remain free pending interminable appeals.
Not long after, in commemoration of this tragic event, the MST and La Via Campesina inaugurated April 17th as the International Day of Peasant Struggle. Throughout the world events will be held to honor the dead and wounded, to call for justice and to uphold the principles of food sovereignty.
To struggle is not a crime!
In the United States, events will be held in various locations:
Chicago will be having two days of events on April 17 and 18 to commemorate the struggle. Click here for more information.
The San Francisco Bay Area chapter will be holding events in conjunction with Earth Day, April 22. Click HERE for more information on these events.
In the Washington DC-Maryland area in conjunction with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a demonstration against Giant Food. Click HERE for more information.
Washington DC held a march and demonstration on April 9th. For information and articles on the this action in commemoration of April 17, click HERE for an article from Carta Capital and HERE for more photos and information.
By Felipe Milanez in Washington
The Embassy of Brazil in Washington, a modernist building that contrasts with the classical properties of the beautiful Embassy Row, the sector of embassies of the U.S. capital, hosted on Monday April 9th a march that brought together about one hundred people, including students, activists and Brazilians living in the region, who demonstrated during...
The rural social movements, which held a meeting earlier this week in Brasilia, launched a manifesto in defense of agrarian reform, rural development with the end of inequality, production and access to healthy foods, for agro-ecology and ensuring expansion of social rights for rural workers.
The most representative...
By Luiz Zarref
After the vote on the rural manifesto, the text, written by Congressman Aldo Rebelo in the House of Representatives in June 2010 that details the deconstruction of the Forestry Code, was forwarded to the Senate.
Last December, a new text was approved in the Senate, which had been prepared by Luiz Henrique (PMBD, former governor of Santa Catarina during the creation of the...
By Vanessa Ramos
It was just after 5:30 am when Francisco Pereira, his hands showing signs of years of hard labor in construction, was getting ready for another day's work when he was surprised by five police officers (MPs). His wife and three children were violently torn from their beds without explanation. The police pushed his daughter, who was a few months pregnant, nearly causing her to fall to the ground. Still Francisco resisted and took on the five PMs....
During the reoccupation of the Rio dos Santos estate in Bom Jesus das Selves in Maranhão last Saturday (25), a pregnant woman of six months was knocked down by estate owner and land thief, José Osvaldo Damião. She ended up losing her baby.
An elderly man of 72 years was among other workers assaulted by the landowner and his gunmen.
Fagnea was taken to the municipal hospital in Bom Jesus das Selves where the seriousness of the injuries incurred during the assault caused her...
