“The Solution Comes from the People!” say the Landless Workers' Movement ahead of COP30
1,300 MST activists will meet with leaders, movements, and popular organizations from around the world at the People's Summit and COP30 in Belém, Pará

1,300 MST activists will meet with leaders, movements, and popular organizations from around the world at the People's Summit and COP30 in Belém, Pará

"For the martyrs of Eldorado", says Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement leader, "we are willing to face this new time"

This year's April Campaign denounces hunger and slavery and reaffirms the struggle for land, democracy and in defense of the environment. Photo: MST/BA Communication Collective and Jonas Souza

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.
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
The clear waters of the Paraopeba River in São Joaquim de Bicas (MG), metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte (MG), were filled with mud and changed their color. What once was crystalline now has texture and coloring similar to an oil paint: dense, viscous, brownish. The desolate scenery is aggravated by the odor of decaying fish.
Agricultural fairs, a fertile space for the landless
by Giovanna Costanti — published 05/19/2018
The interim president participated in the Global Agribusiness Forum and received a pledge of support from sectors of the Brazilian elite.
The acting president, Michel Temer, said on Monday July 4th that he is not afraid to propose unpopular measures "if they are to better the country."
“The sugar cane, beef and soy of Mato Grosso are stained with the blood of the indigenous”, declares one passage of the statement.

Last Friday the MST released a statement vehemently condemning the massacre committed against the Guarani and Kaiowa community in the interior of South Mato Grosso in which 20 people suffered gunshot wounds and an indigenous man, Clodiodi Aquileu Rodrigues, was brutally murdered.
By Benjamin Dangl, UK Guardian
Just days after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was inaugurated on new year's day, thousands of activists from the Landless Farmers Movement (MST) took over three expanses of land and various government buildings, demanding the new president speed up the rate of xland redistribution to the country's landless farmers.