*PRESS RELEASE from VIA CAMPESINA*
*Armed Militia Attacks Via Campesina Encampment and Kills Activist*
*There were no hostages at the site, to the contrary of reports by the Globo News Network.*
Yesterday (October 21), at 1:30 p.m., a Via Campesina encampment located at Syngenta’s experimental GMO farm in Santa Tereza...
PRESS RELEASE from VIA CAMPESINA Armed Militia Attacks Via Campesina Encampment and Kills Activist There were no hostages at the site, to the contrary of reports by the Globo News Network. Yesterday (October 21), at 1:30 p.m., a Via Campesina encampment located at Syngenta’s experimental GMO farm in Santa Tereza do Oeste (Paraná), was...
BRASILIA, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Brazil's militant landless peasants invaded tree plantations of Votorantim and Stora Enso paper companies on Tuesday, destroying saplings as part of a protest against multinational agricultural firms. About 100 protesters belonging to the Landless Rural Workers Movement, or MST, raided a plantation belonging to the...
Dear friends of the MST,
Today is the 40th anniversary of the death of the revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara. In countries around the world and especially in Latin America, activists from the left and social movements are carrying out events to commemorate the man who has been transformed into one of the greatest symbols of struggle for...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A group of Brazilian landless peasants threatened on Monday to block a railroad run by mining giant CVRD and halt iron ore shipments from Carajas area in a protest to demand the company's renationalization. The radical leftist Landless Workers' Movement also said 3.6 million people voted for the return of CVRD...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A group of Brazilian landless peasants threatened on Monday to block a railroad run by mining giant CVRD and halt iron ore shipments from Carajas area in a protest to demand the company's renationalization.
The radical leftist Landless Workers' Movement also said 3.6 million people voted for the return...
CHARLIE ROSE: What do you say to those critics on the left who say you have not been as -- you have not accomplished their agenda, you have not been forceful on their side? LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA (through translator): For example, just for you to understand, for almost 30 years in my life, I did the following speech. I will go and undertake...
Dear Friends of the MST,
This week we in the MST are again embarking on a campaign for Agrarian Reform. We are carrying out occupations and marches in various states that are aimed at pressuring the state governments and the federal government to immediately carry out agrarian reform, which for some time has been bogged down in our...
Since 1985, Brazilian families have in large numbers taken to the MST’s call for “bottom-up” agrarian reform. What started as a coalition of 400 families has swelled into a 1.5 million-member force that desires to shift the policy of individual land ownership to a more equitable system “based on cooperative relations among direct workers.” ......
Latin American farmers speak on rights issues
Pablo Albilal / Contributing Writer
Issue date: 9/14/07
Farmers from Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala and others spoke Wednesday at the River Lounge in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus [of Rutgers University]. The panel...
