MST Bulletin #7
January 11, 2002

On January 9th, representatives of the MST, CMP, CUT, the Lawyers Union, the Migrants Pastoral, PT, PC do B and parliament members such as Senator Eduardo Suplicy and the Federal Deputy Luiz Eduardo Greenhalg delivered a document expressing their concerns with the crisis and their solidaity with the Argentine people. The document was delivered in an audience with the consul of the neighboring country, Mirian Chavez, and was addressed to the new President of Argentina, Eduardo Duhalde.

In the letter, the organizations asked that the people should not be sacrificed, the repression should end and that those responsible for the murders of 30 Argentinian protesters should be punished. They also asked for a rupture with the IMF and a rejection of the FTAA, suggesting a plebiscite that would allow the people to take a stand in the subject of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), as the one that will happen in Brazil in September of this year.

MST releases 2002 daily planners.

In 2002, the MST daily planners pay homage to the artist that dared to challenge the bourgeois art in 1922. In each month there are poems and drawings of the modernist artists, such as Mário de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira, Tarsila do Amaral, and others. The planner also displays photographs of the main activites of the MST and other people's movements throughout 2001. This is the only publication that gathers data, maps and charts about the agrarian and agricultural issues in Brazil. You will also find testimonies about the MST and the struggle for land, historic dates and statements of people's leaders from Brazil and the world. (320 pages, hard cover (14 x 21 cm) ÊR$10,00)

You can view our cover and buy the 2002 planner and help support the struggle for Agrarian reform at our website: www.mst.org.br/interar/produtos/produ2002.html