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Occupy Brazil: The Landless Dig In
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| Land Reform, Land Bank Project, etc. |
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| Links to Brazilian Websites: MST, Workers Party (PT), dataTerra |
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Links to Brazilian Websites: MST, Workers Party (PT), dataTerra |
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| MST Bibliography |
Bibliography: The MST and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil Adriance, Madeleine R. Terra Prometida: As Comunidades Eclesiais de Base e os Conflitos Rurais. São Paulo: Edições Paulinas, 1996. Berger, Christa. Campos em Confronto: A Terra e o Texto. Porto Alegre: Editora da... |
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| Landless Voices Cultural Resources website |
The Landless Voices website with its "Sights and Voices of Dispossession: The Fight for the Land and the Emerging Culture of the MST" is an archive that projects the images, voices and forces of the MST. It gathers resources on the emerging culture... |
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| MST Audio feature by the National Radio Project |
The National Radio Project ran a feature on its program "Making Contact" on March 23, 2005. The interview is titled "Land for Those Who Work It." Brazil has the second most unequal distribution of land in the world. Inside... |
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| [INTERVIEW] Informative Interview with MST's Geraldo Fontes |
Two part Interview with Geraldo Fontes of the MST “Without depending on power or having to take power‿ Geraldo Fontes is a member of the national... |
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| Constitutional Authority: Legality of Land Occupations |
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landless_Workers%27_Movement#Constitutional... Brazil has one of... |
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| [12/13/2005] PBS Frontline/World Presents: Cutting the Wire - Witnessing a Land Occupation |
PBS Frontline/World presents "Cutting the Wire", a film documenting the occupation of a ranch outside of Sao Paulo by more than one thousand landless and poor activists organized by the Landless Workers' Movement (MST). Rough Cut: Brazil: Cutting the Wire |
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| "On the Front Line - Human Rights Defenders in Brazil, 2002 to 2005" |
"On the Front Line: Human Rights Defenders in Brazil" documents and denounces the Brazilian government's slowness, incompetence, and inefficiency in dealing with the issue. The 51 cases presented in the report are, unfortunately, only a handful of the many that threaten the defense of human... |
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| Via Campesina Issue Paper #5: Agrarian Reform in the Context of Food Sovereignty, the Right to Food and Cultural Diversity |
CONFERENCE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRARIAN REFORM AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT ISSUE PAPER FIVE |
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| [RADIO SPECIAL] Workers & Farmers vs. Free Trade & Global Agribusiness |
[RADIO SPECIAL] Workers on the Food Chain - Workers & Farmers vs. Free Trade & Global Agribusiness Excerpts from the Cornell Global Labor Institute Forum with |
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| [INTERVIEW] Informative Interview with MST's Joao Pedro Stedile |
New Left Review 15, May-June 2002 A leader of Brazil’s Sem Terra explains the history and geography of the world’s largest movement of the rural poor. How to occupy land, mobilize support, resist the... |
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| [FoodFirst Backgrounder] Now It Is Time: The MST and Grassroots Land Reform in Brazil, Spring 2003 |
Now It Is Time: The MST and Grassroots Land Reform in Brazil "Since the late 1970s, more than one million people in Brazil have transformed their lives. They have done so by organizing peaceful protests that have forced the Brazilian government to... |
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| [REPORT] Landless Workers Movement: The Difficult Construction of a New World |
Landless Workers Movement: The Difficult Construction of a New World Translated from: Movimiento de los trabajadores sin tierra: la difícil construcción de un mundo nuevo. |
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| [INTERVIEW] Without a Plan No President Can Rescue Brazil, Says Landless Leader |
João Pedro Stédile is an economist and a national leader of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement and is known for his acid criticism of the national elite. Together with other leaders of the social movement, he wrote the Letter to the Brazilian People, in which they demand changes in the... |
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| [RADIO SPECIAL] Radio Program, Unamos Nuestras Voces, Hosts Conversation on MST |
[RADIO SPECIAL] Radio Program, Unamos Nuestras Voces, Hosts Conversation on MST Unamos Nuestras Voces, a program of 93.3 FM Campus and Community Radio, recently hosted a conversation on the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) and the struggle for land in Brazil. Providing historical and... |
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| [MST ANALYSIS] The Neoliberal Agrarian Model in Brazil. by João Pedro Stedile |
The Neoliberal Agrarian Model in Brazil |
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| [REPORT] Human Rights in Brazil 2006: A Report by the Social Network for Justice and Human Rights **AVAILABLE ONLINE** |
[REPORT] Human Rights in Brazil 2006: A Report by the Social Network for Justice and Human Rights **AVAILABLE ONLINE** To access the full report, go to: http://www.social.org.br/relatorio2006ingles.htm ... |
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| [REPORT] GRAIN Report: Seedling - Agrofuels Special Issue |
New from GRAIN No to the agrofuels craze! GRAIN has just published a special issue of Seedling which focuses on biofuels, or as we like to call them, agrofuels - over 30,000 words of in-depth analysis from around the world. In the process of gathering material... |
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| [REPORT] Transnational Institute (TNI) Report: Agrofuels - Towards a Reality Check in Nine Key Areas |
Agrofuels - Towards a reality check in nine key areas The rush for ‘biofuels’ is already causing serious damage. Far from being sustainable, the spread of what are more accurately called ‘agrofuels’ – liquid fuels produced from biomass... |
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| [INTERVIEW] In-Depth Interview with MST's Joao Pedro Stedile: The MST Wants a New Model of Agrarian Reform, 2007. |
In an interview with the online newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa, João Pedro Stedile, of the national MST leadership, speaks about the need to build a development model that prioritizes democratization of the land, the distribution of income, and an agriculture based on small and medium-size... |
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| THE LANDLESS RURAL WORKERS MOVEMENT AND DEMOCRACY IN BRAZIL |
New article authored by Miguel Carter, professor at American University, Washington D.C. Dr. Carter is a long time supporter of the MST and an expert on Latin American Land... |
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| Leadership Development and Formação in Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement |
Doctoral thesis of Dawn Plummer on the formation and development of leadership in the MST. |