Mst Informe
April 17, 2003
MST

NEWS BRIEFS

MST Intensifies the National March Campaign

The NAtional March Against Latifundios and in favor of Agrarian Reform has developed awareness-raising activities around the importance of agrarian reform for the social and economic growth of Brazil. Acts, marches and occupations of large unproductive land estates or latifundios are happening throughout the country, mobilizing nearly 25,000 people in 23 states. The Campaign will be extended throughout the entire year.

International Day of Peasant Struggle

Since 1996, when the massacre at Eldorado dos Carajas occurred, the international movement of peasant farmers Via Campesina declared April 17th as the International Day of Peasant Struggle. The world commemorates the day through marches, debates, meetings and mobilizations, in activities that are being held in 17 countries in the Americas, Europe and Oceania. Next year, mobilizations will be against the WTO and the liberalization of agrarian commerce.