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Occupy Brazil: The Landless Dig In
MST's Proposal for a "People's Agrarian Reform"
July 8, 2009
THE NECESSITY FOR AGRARIAN REFORM: A PEOPLE’S PROJECT FOR BRAZILIAN AGRICULTURE
I - OBJECTIVES
This proposal is part of land reform as part of the Brazilian working class aspirations to build a new society: egalitarian, compassionate, humane and ecologically sustainable. Thus, the proposed measures are part of a broad process of change in society, and fundamentally changing the current organizational structure of production and the relationship of humans and nature. The goal is to do this in ways that the whole process of organization and production development in the countryside results in the elimination of exploitation, domination of politics and ideological alienation and destruction of nature. We seek to enhance and guarantee work for all persons as a condition for human emancipation and the construction of dignity and equality between people and the restoration of harmonious relations between human beings and nature.
Platform of Via Campesina for Agriculture
May 26, 2010
The Brazilian people and the popular rural organizations and the city
The current agricultural model imposed on Brazil by the forces of capital and big business is detrimental to the interests of the people. It transforms everything into commodities: food, goods of nature (such as water, land, biodiversity and seeds.) and it is organized for the sole purpose of increasing the profits of big business, transnational corporations and banks.
We must urgently build a new agricultural model based on constant search for a more just and egalitarian society, which produces their needs in balance with the environment.
Political Lines Reaffirmed at the Fifth National Congress of the MST - 2007
July 8, 2009
LETTER FROM THE 5TH CONGRESS OF THE MST
We, 17,500 workers and landless rural workers from 24 states of Brazil, 181 international delegates representing 21 peasant organizations from 31 countries and friends of several movements and organizations, met in Brasilia from 11 to 15 June 2007 the 5th National Congress of the MST, to discuss and analyze the problems in our society and find alternative solutions.
We pledge to continue helping in organizing the people, to fight for their rights and against inequality and social injustice. Therefore, we assumed the following commitments: