By Joana Tavares
Portal Minas Free
It was in November of 2004. Armed gunmen invaded the Promised Land Camp (Terra Prometida), in Felisburgo, in Jequitinhonha Valley, and killed five workers. Another twenty were seriously injured, and huts and crops burned. Nearly nine years later, accused of being the...
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Occupy Brazil: The Landless Dig In
Brazilian Government | Food Sovereignty and Sustainability | General | MST Occupations and Demonstrations | Worldwide Peasant Struggles | Agrarian Reform | MST Campaigns | MST News and Events | MST Informas
Seventeen years have passed since that fateful April 17. On that day in 1996, a march of rural workers organized by the MST was blockaded and attacked by military police in the city of Eldorado dos Carajás, Pará state. 19 people were killed on the spot and 2 others died days afterwards. The day of the Eldorado dos...
By Luiz Zarref
After the vote on the rural manifesto, the text, written by Congressman Aldo Rebelo in the House of Representatives in June 2010 that details the deconstruction of the Forestry Code, was forwarded to the Senate.
Last December, a new text was approved in the Senate, which had...
Agribusiness | Agritoxins | Brazilian Government | General | MST Occupations and Demonstrations | MST Victories | Plans and Theories | Agrarian Reform | MST Campaigns | MST Informas
The year is ending and again we have the feeling of accomplishment for all the struggles, activities, and alliances that we’ve built and engaged in with all the various sectors of the working class. In another difficult year we had to carry out great struggles against agribusiness that continues its offensive against our lands,...
Day of action calls for government promises made in August, such as the updating of indices and the settlement of dispossessed workers The MST occupied the INCRA (Agency for Land Reform) headquarters in Brasília as well as its offices in São Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Pará, Piauí and Paraíba this Monday, on the National Day of Struggle for Land Reform. The movement has also kept up its occupation of INCRA's Pernambuco office since Saturday. The actions call for the government to house the 90...
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Join the International Day of Peasant Struggle: Say ‘No!’ to Corporate Control of Agriculture and Food!
To commemorate the International Day of Peasant Struggle on April 17th 2010, the international peasant movement La Via Campesina calls upon member organisations, allies and supporters to unite against transnational corporations (TNCs), which seek complete control over food and agriculture systems around the world. On April 17th 1996, nineteen landless Brazilian peasants...
By Diego González | June 11, 2009 Along with the United States and Argentina, Brazil is now one of the strongest bastions of agribusiness on a global level. The world’s tenth largest economy, Brazil is now the nation which suffers the greatest inequality, on a subcontinent which, in its turn, experiences the greatest wealth gap. Just 1.6% of Brazilian landholders control 46.78% of the nation’s privately owned land. According to the NGO Council of Information on Biotechnologies, Brazil was...
We are mobilized all over Brazil to defend the education of the countryside, an achievement of the social movements that fight for Land Reform in our country. Our challenge is big. We learn through the struggle that Land Reform goes beyond the simple conquest of the land/earth, and necessarily becomes a serious educational policy. Our country figures among the worst in the world in this sense. Statistics from the Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education show that there are 35...
by Michelle Amaral da Silva - last modified 2009-04-16 11:50 Mobilizations throughout Brazil in memory of the 19 landless workers killed 13 years ago in the Massacre of Eldorado de Carajás are planned for the coming weeks. The National Day of Struggle, held in memory of 19 landless workers killed 13 years ago in the massacre of Eldorado de Carajás (PA), has mobilized farmers in 8 states and the Federal District since the beginning of the month, to force implementation of agrarian reform...
Esteemed Friends of the MST,
The year 2007 is coming to an end and we would therefore like to communicate to you a political assessment of our struggle. We would like to provide accounts of what we are doing in our trenches, which is the struggle for Agrarian Reform. We would like to share with our companions who are active in other trenches what we accomplished in this period, and at the same time reaffirm our commitment to the struggle for the transformation of this society.
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