The MST awards the “Struggle for Land” Prize to 22 fighters
More than 600 people attended the award ceremony, which on significant dates is conferred on people who stood out in defense of peasant struggles, agrarian reform, and a socialist society. The “Struggle for Land” Prize was awarded on January 24, 2015 at the Florestan Fernandes National School in Guararema (SP). The award was last given in 2009, in celebration of the MST's 25th anniversary. Now the landless share the award again to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Movement, completed in 2014.
In a meeting with Julian Assange, the MST establishes a partnership with Wikileaks
by Maíra Kubík Mano
Every day in front of the Embassy of Ecuador in London, a group of five people meet for a protest. With some posters and a hand-sewn banner, they are demanding the release of Wikileaks found Julian Assange who is confined in the building. "We are organizing a big action on June 19, can you participate?" they ask passersby. The Embassy is located in a tourist area of the city, right next to a large department store and the protest draws lots of attention.
Sem Terrinhas (Children of the MST) begin an action in Alagoas
Seventeen years after the massacre, the attack on land reform continues
Seventeen years have passed since that fateful April 17. On that day in 1996, a march of rural workers organized by the MST was blockaded and attacked by military police in the city of Eldorado dos Carajás, Pará state. 19 people were killed on the spot and 2 others died days afterwards. The day of the Eldorado dos Carajás massacre has officially become the National Day of Struggle for Land Reform.
Niemeyer, the MST is Immensely Proud to Have Been Your Friend and Comrade

The ‘Brazil alongside Chavez’ campaign has begun
The MST Donates Truckloads of Food for the People of Pinheirinho
By Vanessa Ramos
What We Want from the Dilma Government
La Via Campesina (a sister organization of MST) presents a political platform to the federal government of Brazil which includes emergency measures, medium term measures, and strategies for the development and strengthening of family-based and peasant agriculture. The proposals are listed below.
Emergency Measures
MST hosts the second annual Fair of Family Agriculture in Itaetê in the interior of Bahia
By Raumi Souza
25th Anniversary of the murder of Father Josimo
by Mariana Duque
On 10 May 1986, another fighter of the people fell. Josimo Morais Tavares, known as Father Josimo, was murdered by regional landowners in Imperatriz, Maranhão.
Born to a humble family in Marabá, Pará, Josimo was the son of a washerwoman, who gave birth to him at the bank of the river Araguaias in 1953.
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