In times of pandemics, peasants are united to feed the people!
COVID-19 paralyzed the world and exposes the vulnerability of the current globalized agribusiness food system and the dangers it poses to all forms of life.
COVID-19 paralyzed the world and exposes the vulnerability of the current globalized agribusiness food system and the dangers it poses to all forms of life.
International delegates pointed out that they were impressed with the level of organization of the MST, the cohesion among the activists and the capacity to unite the struggle with art and poetry
By Florence Poznanski
The former President participated in the political event of the First National Meeting of Landless Women in Brasília on March 7.
On the morning of Monday March 9, the women of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) occupied the Ministry of Agriculture in the capital Brasilia. 3,500 workers from 24 states in Brazil are participating in the action, which is part of the National Days of Struggle of the Landless Women.
With the motto, “Women in the Struggle: Sowing Resistance”, over 3,500 women have been occupying Brasilia, between the 5th and 9th of march, during the 1st National Landless Women’s Meeting.
The Movement signed commitments in the struggle for Agrarian Reform, against the withdrawal of rights of the Brazilian people, in defense of the environment and national sovereignty
By the National Coordination of the MST
By the MST’s Gender Sector
We are able to build the year of 2020 with struggles, achievements and hopes, since 35 years ago we sowed resistance!
by Fernanda Alcântara
Over the past 35 years, the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) has been known worldwide for organizing thousands of landless workers to occupy large estates in order to earn the right to land, health, education and to develop production practices for healthy and agroecological food.
Evictions occur simultaneously in the following MST settlements: Abril Vermelho, Dorothy, and Irany.
At dawn on Monday (25), approximately 700 landless families from the settlements of Abril Vermelho, Dorothy, and Irany (in the cities of Casa Nova and Juazeiro) have been violently evicted by men from the Federal Police, Military Police, and armed militias in the region.
Lawyer Ney Strozake states that "there is nothing on the horizon that could justify a new arrest of Lula"