June 14, 2007
Agriculture-Brazil: David, Goliath and land reform
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - The largest movement fighting for the distribution of unproductive rural property to landless peasant farmers in Brazil complains that the "euphoria" over the production of biofuels from sugar cane and other crops is...
Fidel Castro Sends Message to 5th Congress of Landless Movement
Posted: 2007/06/16
From: Mathaba
Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz sent a letter to the rural workers that make up Brazil's Landless Movement, on the occasion of the 5th Congress of their organization, which the Cuban Revolution leader described as very active and...
Brazilian Landless Support ALBA Integration Effort
BRASILIA .— The Landless Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) closed their Fifth National Congress this Friday, with marked support for the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), the integration group formed so far by Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua.
The ALBA...
Landless rural workers confront Brazil’s Lula
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Brazil’s workers vow to continue struggle for land and against agribusiness interests
By Isabella Kenfield*
19 June 2007
Last week the Brazilian Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST...
Good Evening Friends,
In the name of the national directorship and of the families of the MST, I salute the representatives of the entities that are here tonight, at the same time that we recognize the importance of the presence of each one of you and your organizations for the struggle of the workers in Brazil.
I compliment all...
Dear friends of the MST,
We are publishing this special edition of MST Informa in order to communicate with our comrades who are active in different peoples’ organizations. We want to speak to you all about the situation of Agrarian Reform in Brazil and also about the realization of the 5th National Congress of the Landless Workers...
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's call for Brazil to become a “green Saudi Arabia” over the next few years has investors giddy and environmental and workers organizations panicked...The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST)...warns that the expansion of sugar cane plantations is both concentrating land ownership and creating slave labor...
Catholic Church Denounces Brazil's Agribusiness and Slavery
Written by Newsroom
Wednesday, 23 May 2007
Brazil's Pastoral Land Commission, linked to the Brazilian Catholic Church, has just released its 2006 report on violence in the Brazilian countryside. The document blames the concentration of land in the hands of a few and...
BRAZIL:
Homeless Take Fate into Their Own Hands
Mario Osava
SAO PAULO, May 31 (IPS) - The occupation of the huge empty lot was carried out at night, by some 300 families. Just a few days later, there were nearly 5,000 families living in a sea of black tents in Valo Velho, a poor, sparsely populated neighbourhood in...
IPS Reports -
BRAZIL: Dorothy Stang Sentence - More Than Symbolic?
Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 16 (IPS) - Forty percent of the 1,237 murders linked to land disputes in Brazil between 1985 and 2001 took place in the northern state of Pará. But things could begin to change there if the sentence handed down to the...
