Brazil’s natural resources are targets for a capitalism in crisis, says MST leader
In the opening of seminar that debates agrarian and environmental issues, Stedile analyses global economic landscape
Unions and movements take to the streets in Brazil against attacks on pension system
Protests in at least 126 cities show that organizations are not happy about changes that will hurt social rights
On the end of the public retirement and rural workers
They want to create the idea that there is a gap in foresight and that rural workers are the main culprits.
We need to fight against the destruction of the Public Pension System. PEC 06/2019 proposed by the Bolsonaro government to the legislature is an affront to social rights and affects mainly women, teachers and rural workers.
“I do not sleep without a gun,” says Secretary of Land Affairs
Responsible for land reform, Nabhan Garcia defends weapons in the field, promises to close MST schools and says he will not negotiate with the movement.
Brazilian state of Ceará bans aerial crop dusting
Movements celebrated measure and will now fight for agroecological farming to replace current fruit production system
The governor of Ceará, Camilo Santana, signed a bill into law this week banning crop dusting in the northern Brazilian state. The measure was welcomed by people’s movements that have been exposing the problems of pesticide abuse in the area.
Bolsonaro Government indefinitely suspends agrarian reform
Documents distributed to INCRA's managers provide for the interruption in the purchase and demarcation of land for the creation of [agrarian reform] settlements. The agency says measure is temporary, but does not say how long it will last.
Private interests threaten Brazil’s Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Territory
President-elect Bolsonaro and a general in his security team want to allow niobium mining in protected area
If elected, Bolsonaro will bar the expropriations of lands accused of slave labor
The proposal goes against Constitutional Amendment 81, which became known as the "PEC [Proposed Constitutional Amendment] of slave labor"
Lula to MST leader: “We’re going to change Brazil starting in January”
Brazil’s ex-president spoke about current events with MST leader and Workers’ Party former chair
Brazil’s ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has been held at the Federal Police headquarters since April 7th, received the visit of Rui Falcão, former chair of the Workers’ Party, and João Pedro Stedile, from the National Coordination of Brazil’s Landless Workers' Movement (MST).
Popular culture and the construction of agroecology in the countryside
Popular culture represents resistance, confrontation with the hegemonic model of capital and struggle continues in defense of another cultural and political project for the country.
