What is the MST's People’s Agrarian Reform Program?
The agrarian program of the Landless Rural Workers Movement seeks a structural change in the relationship with access to land, natural goods, modes of production and peasant community organization
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Tens of thousands of Brazilians march to demand Bolsonaro’s impeachment
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.
Eldorado do Carajás, 25 years of impunity: interview with Ayala Ferreira
Ayala Ferreira, of the national leadership of the MST, by the National Human Rights Collective, recalls the brutality of the massacre in Pará and speaks of the actions for Abril Vermelho
Vale’s mining activities help spread covid-19 in Brazil's countryside
Canaã dos Carajás, where Vale operates, has more cases than many large cities, though with only 36,000 residents
MST keeps solidarity initiatives in Africa and Latin America during the pandemic
Learn more about the work done by Brazilians in Haiti, Venezuela, and Zambia
The dangers of legalizing public land theft in Brazil: agribusiness, deforestation, and the melting pot of future pandemics
Experts are highlighting two main factors behind the intensification of disease outbreaks and humans' increased vulnerability to them:
Researcher: each trespasser on indigenous land can lead to 1,600 covid-19 cases
Reports and data show land invasions heighten the risk of a “new genocide”
The comings and goings of land invaders on indigenous lands has exposed tribes to the novel coronavirus, creating a wave of infections and deaths according to data from the Free Land Settlement (ATL) gathering.
To fight the crisis, entities defend taxing the rich foreseeing R$270 billion
Changes in the national system focused on taxing income and patrimony; cities and states would get R$100 billion
“Agribusiness is calling the shots in Brazil,” says Chico Mendes’ daughter
Environmentalist Angela Mendes spoke with Brasil de Fato about alliance against Bolsonaro administration’s setbacks
Bolsonaro issues decree, experts warn that it encourages Amazon deforestation
Provisional decree could lead to escalation of land conflicts in the world’s biggest rain forest
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, signed on Tuesday, December 10 a provisional decree (MP) that aims to formalize the land titles of around 600,000 rural estates by 2022.