[09-24-08] MST Informa #153: Brazil’s Oil Should Belong to Us!
Brazil’s civil society needs to start having a major discussion: a discussion about the exploration, production, and use of oil found in the pre-salt layer.
[06/10/08] Activists launch protests against corporations in 8 Brazil states
The Associated Press Tuesday, June 10, 2008 SAO PAULO, Brazil: Thousands of landless rural workers invaded dams, railways, plantations and corporate headquarters in a wave of protests across eight Brazilian states on Tuesday. Rogerio Homm, a coordinator with the Via Campesina activist group, said the protests are aimed at large corporations that benefit from Brazilian policies favoring agribusiness over small farmers.
[04/19/08] International Day of Peasant Struggle - Rural Landless Step up Campaign in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) — Rural landless workers in Brazil stepped up their campaign for agricultural reform Thursday by holding several demonstrations and occupying a hydroelectric plant and freeway toll stations, their organization said. The protests were part of the Landless Farmworkers Movement's "Red April" operation to force the government to give them land grants and easier access to public loans for some 150,000 dispossessed families living in shantytowns around the country. Demonstrations took place in the states of Ceara, Pernambuco, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul, Parana, Sao Paulo, Sergipe, Paraiba and Para.
[01/27/08] Interview with Joao Pedro Stédile: ‘The WSF Has to Agree On Common Actions Against Common Enemies’
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 24 (IPS) - Joao Pedro Stédile thinks that the World Social Forum (WSF) should remain a debating arena for civil society, because with all its breadth and variety, to attempt to agree on resolutions is "an illusion." The Brazilian landless movement activist is also in favour of holding the WSF every three years, instead of annually, he said in an interview with IPS correspondent Mario Osava. A member of the group that founded the WSF in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre in 2001, Stédile is regarded as one of the main theorists of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), and he belongs to the local chapter of Vía Campesina, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO).
[URGENT ACTION NEEDED] Stop the São Francisco River Project, Support Bishop Luiz Flavio Cappio's Hunger Strike. **ACT NOW**
Dear Friends of the MST, As we conveyed in the most recent MST Informa, many NGOs and social movements in Brazil are against government's plan to redirect water from the São Francisco river.
[12/07/07] MST Informa #146: Our Solidarity with the Struggle to Defend "Old Chico"
Dear Friends of the MST,
[10/09/07] MST Informa #143: Che Lives!
Dear friends of the MST,
[09/19/2007] IPS Reports: Amazon Logging Means Short-Lived Prosperity. By Roberto Villar Belmonte
BELEM, Brazil, Sep 19 (IPS/IFEJ) - Devastation, violent land conflicts and rapid -- but short-lived -- economic growth are the traces left by deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon over the last 30
The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement and the Political Situation in Brazil
Conjunctural analysis shows that the slow pace of Agrarian Reform and the prioritization of agribusiness deepen rural inequalities and worsen the food crisis in Brazil
MST publishes Letter on the fight for Agrarian Reform in the next period, at a Meeting in Belém
Document reaffirms the need for People’s Agrarian Reform in the country to overcome environmental destruction, concentration of wealth and social inequality
