News and Updates: MST Occupations and Demonstrations
Last Thursday (April 7, 2016) afternoon, families of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) organized in the Dom Tomás Balduino Camp, were victims of an ambush by the State Military Police and private security forces of the logging company Araupel.
...
There are about 500 activists from the MST, FUP (Single Federation of Petroleum Workers, CUT (Unified Workers’ Central), UNE (National Union of Students), UBES (Union of Brazilian Secondary...
They denounce the idle land use, separation of small milk producers in the region and the influence of the former owners to acquire the area.
Several students from the Levante Popular da...
On Tuesday about 500 families set up the Princesa do Vale encampment in the Vale do Jequitinhonha, in the northeast of Minas Gerais.
Beyond the immediate settlement of more than six...
In São Paulo, the largest demonstration in the country, at least 100,000 joined against fiscal adjustment and in defense of democracy.
Hundreds of thousands of people take to the...
By Luiz Felipe Albuquerque
On Monday August 3, many offices of the Ministries of Finance were occupied by thousands of landless across the country. They included the offices of the Ministries of Finance of...
Located in Greater Sao Paulo, the Dom Helder Camara Urban Commune was the first MST 
experiment in an urban area.
In the town of Jandira, an MST flag has been planted as a symbol of unification between the...
In Brasília (Federal District) at around 3:00pm, the police engaged thousands of people demonstrating in front of the National Congress -- at times with violent force.
...
To Beth Rocha, transvestite and acampada*, building mechanisms to ensure an egalitarian society imbues respect for different identities.
The men...
The actions are part of the National Day of Struggle of Peasant Women in denouncing the agribusiness model
...