MST performs National Week of Peasant Struggle in Pará

April 7, 2011

By João Márcio
Marabá, Pará

Da Página do MST

Between 10-17 April, the MST holds the National Week Peasant Struggle and Agrarian Reform in Pará, with a series of activities marking the 15th anniversary of the April 17th  settlement, but also recalling the massacre at Eldorado de Carajás, known worldwide, where 19 lives were lost and 69 people maimed with the guilty still unpunished today.

Political and cultural acts will also be held in the April 17th Settlement and within the monument in the "S curve", in Eldorado dos Carajás, in addition to the permanent Youth Camp of Political  Educational Policy of the MST, which will feature about 1,000 young people, coming from all the encampments and settlements.

Theater workshops, dance, poetry, musical instruments, agitation and propaganda, music, art and issues related to landless children, as well as Cine Terra, occurring in the afternoons, throughout the week at the school in the settlement, Oziel Alves Pereira .

Among the actions of the week, we highlight the cultural evening and northeastern Amazon, the inauguration of José Saramago Library and Rádio Camponesa in the community.

As for the concerts will be attended by singer/songwriter Socorro Lira, with rap music of São Paulo,  The Family, and Zeca Tocantins and Clauber Martins, bringing his compositions that refer to regionalal culture, the presentation of Beto Dy Maya and the Band Nó de Aroeira, excluding the participation of Zé Geraldo, on April 15.