SF Bay Area Commemorates International Day of Peasant Struggle

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEASANT RESISTANCE -REPORT BACK FROM BRAZIL & BENEFIT CONCERT

APRIL 17TH, 7-10:30PMCutting the Wire

@ La Peña Cultural Center

3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA

 

A celebration and inquiry into the international struggle for land, food and our own labor:

Who is Movimento Sem Terra?

In February a delegation of 15 representatives from U.S. social movements traveled to Brazil to attend the National Congress of the Landless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra, or MST). The Congress was a celebration of the MST’s thirty-years of struggle, and a debate about its future. This event is a report-back to the Bay Area community at large, with insights into the MST's structure and strategy, and examples of how they're changing relations to land and labor.  

 

Followed by a concert by local artists:

Cradle Duende, Diana Gameros, & The Black Riders Liberation Party!

Report back by Bay Area Delegates:

Occupy the FarmEffie Rawlings of Occupy the Farm

 

 

Black RidersShango Abiola of The Black Riders Liberation Party 

 

 

 

 

FMST LogoRebecca Tarlau of Friends of the MST

 

This event is in solidarity with The International Day of Peasant Resistance which commemorates the massacre of 19 MST activists at the hands of state military police on April 17th, 1996.

Tickets are $10-20, sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.  


All proceeds benefit ongoing political organizing between the Bay Area and the MST.

Purchase tickets at http://tinyurl.com/n6t6cb5

Get updates online at http://tinyurl.com/pj7afjt

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