Brazil's homeless and landless unite
By Gary Duffy
BBC News, Sao Paulo
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Brazil's landless and homeless movements have been on the march in April, bringing renewed attention to their demands in a month of protests.
In the countryside, protest action is led by the controversial and better known organisation of...
[04/17/2007] MST Update #131: Why We Mobilized Across All of Brazil
The agrarian reform must be a public and governmental program that should apply the principles of the constitution to fight the concentration of land property. Through the expropriation and indemnification of the owners it organizes settlements, distribute land to the...
Dear Friends of the MST,
As you know, our movement is mobilizing throughout Brazil for another campaign demanding Agrarian Reform in our country.
As you also know, April 17th is the International Day of Peasant Struggle as called for by La Via Campesina International and for that reason in many countries of the world, similar...
BRASILIA, April 16 (Reuters) - Hundreds of rural workers occupied the Brazilian government's land-reform headquarters in the capital Brasilia on Monday, demanding faster settlement of small farmers and peasants.
The protesters stormed the building of the National Agrarian Reform Institute at dawn. After shutting the doors to staff, they...
SAO PAULO, Brazil: Thousands of landless workers invaded government property in Brazil's arid northeast to try to stop a controversial river-diversion project critics claim will hinder agrarian reform and lavish benefits on agribusiness, a spokeswoman for the workers said Sunday.
About 7,500 people invaded plots of government-owned land...
[04/11/2007] Reuters Reports: Thousands of Brazilian Peasants Occupy Farms
By Todd Benson
SAO PAULO, April 10 (Reuters) - Thousands of peasants have occupied four farms and demonstrated in six states as part of a wave of protests to push for land reform in Latin America's largest country, a spokesman for the group said on Tuesday...
Selling Biofuel to the Rich Is Just a New Phase of Brazil Colony
Written by Edivan Pinto
Recent research on the impact of fossil fuels has contributed to making the subject of biofuels the order of the day. The acceleration of global warming is a fact that places the life of the planet at risk. However, it is necessary to...
[04/09/2007] Shootout leaves landless worker dead in Tocantins
On Wednesday, April 4th, Landless Workers tied to the Landless Workers Movement (MST) found themselves caught in a hail of gunfire while fishing in a stream off of the Araguaia River, in Brazil’s northern state of Tocantins (TO). As the Landless attempted to escape the...
Food security, poor farmers, and environmental impact are not often discussed when talking about bio-fuels.
By Daniel Cassol
The discussion around clean, renewable energy production is not new, but now it has become more urgent, especially after the beginning of February when the...
[03/29/2007] Call for April 17: International Day of Peasant’s Struggle
The 17th of April is the International Day of Peasant’s Struggle, established after the massacre of 19 landless peasants belonging to the Landless Movement (MST) in Brazil on the 17th of April 1996 during the second conference of La Via Campesina in Tlaxcala Mexico...
