MST Occupations and Demonstrations

Protests in over 200 cities and towns in Brazil sparked by president’s handling of the Covid pandemic

Tens of thousands of protesters have poured on to the streets of Brazil’s largest cities to demand the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro over his catastrophic response to a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed nearly half a million Brazilian lives.

After 25 years of the emblematic episode, more than 200 thousand peasant families live under the black canvas

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Follow this Saturday, April 17, the date that marks the 25th anniversary of the Eldorado do Carajás Massacre, a great International Cultural Political Act that rescues the memory of the 21 Landless workers victims of one of the biggest massacres ever carried out in Brazil's countriside and denounce their impunity.

In 24 states and the Federal District, MST Women also denounced the increase in hunger, the destruction of Agrarian Reform policies, the increase in violence and promoted the “Out with Bolsonaro” campaign

"Solidarity is the tenderness of peoples"

From the history of peoples' struggle, we learn the priceless value of solidarity that identifies and strengthens us as a class that knows no boundaries. It was thanks to the exercise of solidarity that many battles were won, and that we survived to fight future battles.

“A Movement made up of family, of the people, of life, of dreams and of courage”