News and Updates: Agrarian Reform
MST's Valmir Mota de Oliveira, aka "Keno"...
PRESS RELEASE from VIA CAMPESINA Armed Militia Attacks Via Campesina Encampment and Kills Activist There were no hostages at the site, to the contrary of reports by the Globo News Network. Yesterday (October 21), at 1:30 p.m., a Via Campesina encampment located at Syngenta’s experimental GMO farm in Santa Tereza do Oeste (Paraná), was...
BRASILIA, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Brazil's militant landless peasants invaded tree plantations of Votorantim and Stora Enso paper companies on Tuesday, destroying saplings as part of a protest against multinational agricultural firms. About 100 protesters belonging to the Landless Rural Workers Movement, or MST, raided a plantation belonging to the...
Dear friends of the MST,
Today is the 40th anniversary of the death of the revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara. In countries around the world and especially in Latin America, activists from the left and social movements are carrying out events to commemorate the man who has been transformed into one of the greatest symbols of struggle for...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A group of Brazilian landless peasants threatened on Monday to block a railroad run by mining giant CVRD and halt iron ore shipments from Carajas area in a protest to demand the company's renationalization. The radical leftist Landless Workers' Movement also said 3.6 million people voted for the return of CVRD...
Dear Friends of the MST,
This week we in the MST are again embarking on a campaign for Agrarian Reform. We are carrying out occupations and marches in various states that are aimed at pressuring the state governments and the federal government to immediately carry out agrarian reform, which for some time has been bogged down in our...
Since 1985, Brazilian families have in large numbers taken to the MST’s call for “bottom-up” agrarian reform. What started as a coalition of 400 families has swelled into a 1.5 million-member force that desires to shift the policy of individual land ownership to a more equitable system “based on cooperative relations among direct workers.” ......
Dear Friends of the MST,
We have below the text of Silvia Ribeiro, researcher from the Mexican ETC group, who studies the impact of the introduction of transgenic seeds into rural cultures and the dominion of the world seed market.
World Bank Against Biosecurity
By Silvia Ribeiro
The basic role of...
We live in a dominant economic system that for centuries has engaged in the unlimited exploitation of all ecosystems and their natural resources. This strategy has generated economic growth and, for some countries, what has been called "development," and has privileged the consumption and well-being of a small fraction of humanity. And,...