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Occupy Brazil: The Landless Dig In
Women against Industrial Poisons Paralyze the Coast Highway in São Paulo [3-3-11]
Info Source:
Pagina do MST
Original Publish Date:
Mar 3 2011 (All day) By Maria Aparecida 
Earlier on Thursday (March 3), about 600 women from Via Campesina and other social movements have closed part of Highway Cônego Domênico Rangoni, also known as Piaçaguera-Guaruja, which gives access to the industrial complex of Cubatão on the coast of São Paulo.
More Than a Thousand Women March Against Pesticides in Ceará [3-2-11]
Info Source:
Pagina do MST
Original Publish Date:
Mar 2 2011 (All day) Over 1,000 women from the social movements of Ceará, the MST, the Movement of People's Councils and the Center of Popular Movements, made two marches to denounce the negative impacts to human health and the environment with excessive use of pesticides in Brazil and impact.
In Fortaleza, more than 600 women marched towards the Palace of the Abolition of the State Government. In Santa Quitéria, 500 women protest against the installation of mine Itataia1.
Rural Women Protest Use of Toxic Agrochemicals [3-3-11]
Info Source:
IPS News Agency Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 3 (IPS) - Thousands of women farmers in Brazil demonstrated this week against the use of toxic weedkillers and 
pesticides on crops and in favour of agricultural techniques that protect their families' health.
Peasant Protests in Six States [3-2-11]
Info Source:
Pagina do MST
Original Publish Date:
Mar 2 2011 (All day) Throughout Brazil, the women of Via Campesina triggered the Day of Struggles of Women to condemn the excessive use of pesticides by Brazilian cultivation, the responsibility of the agribusiness production model.
To date, six states are mobilized to denounce the harmful effects on health and the environment of the annual use of over a billion liters of poisons, according to data from the National Association of Industrial Products for Agricultural Defense.
Brazil ranks first in the list of countries consuming pesticides since 2009.
Peasant Women in Protest at Braskem [3-1-11]
Info Source:
Pagina MST
Original Publish Date:
Mar 1 2011 (All day) Women workers from the countryside and the city this year again are carrying out national days of struggle around the 8th of March – International Women’s Day.
Earlier on Tuesday (March 1), about 800 women occupied the courtyard of Braskem, Odebrecht Group1 in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre.
The action is organized by the women of Via Campesina, Movement of Unemployed Workers (MTD), the Youth and Inter-Union Mobilization and integrates the national day of women's struggles.
MST Farm Workers Occupy Plantation of Veracel in Eunápolis [2-28-11]
Info Source:
Teixeira News
Original Publish Date:
Feb 28 2011 (All day) Written by Ronildo Brito