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BRASILIA, April 16 (Reuters) - Hundreds of rural workers occupied the Brazilian government's land-reform headquarters in the capital Brasilia on Monday, demanding faster settlement of small farmers and peasants.
The protesters stormed the building of the National Agrarian Reform Institute at dawn. After shutting the doors to staff, they...
SAO PAULO, Brazil: Thousands of landless workers invaded government property in Brazil's arid northeast to try to stop a controversial river-diversion project critics claim will hinder agrarian reform and lavish benefits on agribusiness, a spokeswoman for the workers said Sunday.
About 7,500 people invaded plots of government-owned land...
[04/11/2007] Reuters Reports: Thousands of Brazilian Peasants Occupy Farms
By Todd Benson
SAO PAULO, April 10 (Reuters) - Thousands of peasants have occupied four farms and demonstrated in six states as part of a wave of protests to push for land reform in Latin America's largest country, a spokesman for the group said on Tuesday...
Selling Biofuel to the Rich Is Just a New Phase of Brazil Colony
Written by Edivan Pinto
Recent research on the impact of fossil fuels has contributed to making the subject of biofuels the order of the day. The acceleration of global warming is a fact that places the life of the planet at risk. However, it is necessary to...
[04/09/2007] Shootout leaves landless worker dead in Tocantins
On Wednesday, April 4th, Landless Workers tied to the Landless Workers Movement (MST) found themselves caught in a hail of gunfire while fishing in a stream off of the Araguaia River, in Brazil’s northern state of Tocantins (TO). As the Landless attempted to escape the...
Food security, poor farmers, and environmental impact are not often discussed when talking about bio-fuels.
By Daniel Cassol
The discussion around clean, renewable energy production is not new, but now it has become more urgent, especially after the beginning of February when the Intergovernmental Panel of Climatic Changes...
[03/29/2007] Call for April 17: International Day of Peasant’s Struggle
The 17th of April is the International Day of Peasant’s Struggle, established after the massacre of 19 landless peasants belonging to the Landless Movement (MST) in Brazil on the 17th of April 1996 during the second conference of La Via Campesina in Tlaxcala Mexico...
Dear Friends of the MST,
Today, April the 3rd, the judge responsible for the 2nd judicial district in Recife, Pernambuco (PE), accepted the request for the provisional release of Landless Rural Worker, Iroilton Pereira de Morais.
The MST militant had been imprisoned since March the 8th, the day he was detained by military police...
Dear Friends of the MST,
The MST recently returned from the African country of Mali. We went as part of a delegation of 12 representatives from Brazilian rural movements and environmentalist groups, joining more than 600 leaders from every continent on Earth. There we met with scientists, environmentalists, women’s movement activists,...
BRAZIL:
No Consensus on Success of Land Reform
Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 22 (IPS) - Brazil's land reform programme has settled nearly one million families on small farms of their own in the last 20 years. But there is no consensus on the effort, which the government touts as a success, the landless movement sees as...