100 years of Florestan Fernandes, a theoretician who served the working class
The sociologist who took his class origins to the books and study, saw revolution as essential for the transformation of Brazil
Aid for family farmers approved by the Chamber of Deputies
Proposal provides aid of R$ 3,000 [approximately US$ 575], aid for cisterns and postponement of debts; farmers receive R $ 6 thousand
On Monday (July 20) the Chamber of Deputies approved the bill to help family farmers while the Covid-19 crisis persists.
Donations, acts and live broadcasts marked the launch of the Emergency Plan for People’s Agrarian Reform
MST proposal points to way out of crises
This Friday (June 5), World Environment Day, the MST launched the Emergency Plan for People’s Agrarian Reform, proposed by the Movement for Brazil with the aim of creating jobs, producing food, moving trade and guaranteeing income and decent living conditions for the people in the midst of the pandemic.
MST launches Emergency Plan with donation of 10 tons of food this Friday (June 5th) in Paraná
Action will mark the launch of the Emergency Plan for Agrarian Reform, proposed by the Movement at the national level to face hunger and the economic crisis during the pandemic of the new coronavirus.
Activist farmers in Brazil feed the hungry and aid the sick as president downplays coronavirus crisis
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For months, President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has insisted the coronavirus is not a serious threat. Beyond instituting a national lockdown in mid-March, his government has left 209 million Brazilians largely without federal help during the pandemic.
Solidarity: food from settlements for poor neighborhoods and homeless people
Food delivered to underserved areas comes from MST encampments and settlements
A task force took food produced in settlements and encampments to the outskirts of Goiânia. This has occurred in other regions of the country, such as Recife, where since March 24, homeless people have been given lunch boxes.
MST offers Centro Paulo Freire as a field hospital for patients with COVID-19
In addition, the movement's state directorate has guided solidarity campaigns in Recife, Caruaru and Petrolina
In PE, MST families donate 1,500 kilos of organic food to a social project
Free of transgenics and pesticides, the vegetables will be used to prepare lunch boxes for the needy population
Since the end of March, the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in partnership with other popular movements, non-governmental organizations, unions and other entities linked to the Brazil Popular Front have been distributing lunch boxes to the homeless in Recife (PE).
MST cooperative donates 70% alcohol to hospital in Paraná
In addition to the solidarity actions that spread throughout Brazil, the president of Copavi emphasizes the decisive role of the state: "Many families are deprived of work, and will have no alternative but this urgent help from the state"
Florestan Fernandes National School celebrates 15th anniversary
The MST school that was inaugurated on January 23, 2005 works with Marxist classics and popular education methods
A space built by the working class, brick by brick, in order to make political education possible for peoples’ organizations across the world. This was the proposal with which the Florestan Fernandes National School (ENFF), located in Guararema, in the rural area of São Paulo state, was founded on 15 years ago.
