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Protests and Toughest Security Scheme Ever Await Bush in Brazil
Written by Elma Lia Nascimento
Tuesday, 06 March 2007
@ http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/7988/54/
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Brazilian social movements and workers unions are vowing to bring thousands of...
Porto Alegre, March 6th 2007
Via Campesina Brazil occupy large green desert land holdings in Rio Grande do Sul
Approximately 1,300 women from Via Campesina, who are mostly organized by the Landless Movement - MST, held four land occupations in Rio Grande do Sul this morning. Those actions are part of a series of National Struggles...
We of the movements that make up La Via Campesina are joining the groups allied with the indigenous struggles to gather signatures in a petition for the Demarcation of Tupinikim and Guarani indigenous lands that are owned by the Aracruz Cellulose company in Espírito Santo. The goal of the MST is to collect 100,000 signatures of workers...
February 23-27, 2007
DECLARATION OF NYÉLÉNI
Nyéléni Village, Selingue, Mali
Available @ http://www.nyeleni2007.org/spip.php?article290
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We, more than 500 representatives from more than 80 countries, of organizations of peasants/family farmers,...
Nyéléni 2007
Brazil: Social Movements Change Strategy for Lula’s Second Term
Originally Posted @ http://www.nyeleni2007.org/spip.php?article242
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The most important social movements in Brazil will conduct in 2007 a strategic change in their relationship...
The Uneasy Calm Continues
Now that Carnival has passed, we are beginning another political year. But looking at the horizon, what follows is a disturbing calm in the Brazilian political sitution, in which nothing appears to change the routes of the ship and the hegemony of the political and economic command of the country.
The...
[02/28/07] Landless Workers Released!
Dear Friends of the MST,
We are pleased to inform you that Judge Francisco Milton Araújo Jr., of Aguas Belas, Pernambuco, has decided in favor of the provisional release of landless rural workers Almir Silva Xavier and Everaldo Miguel de Oliveira. The two MST activists had been imprisoned in...
The gunmen hired to murder the leader of the MST have been imprisoned in
Pernambuco.
On Wednesday the 14th of February, the Municipal Police of Aliança of
Pernambuco's Northern Zona da Mata arrested the gunmen José Edson
Leonardo (38 years old), otherwise known as Lóia, and Francisco Assis
Silva (44 years old...
Lula Government Inflates Agrarian Reform Numbers
Rubens Valente, for the Folha de São Paulo
At the end of January, the federal government announced that it had achieved a “record for agrarian reform: 381,000 rural workers without land have been settled during Lula’s first presidential term (2003-2006).
However, an...
The State and Economy in Brazil: An Introduction
by Rosa Maria Marques and Paulo Nakatani
MONTHLY REVIEW
Volume 58, Number 8
February 2007
These articles were written five months before the first round of presidential elections in Brazil, on October 1, 2006. The second round, on October 29, saw Lula reelected...