[08/16/06] "Monoculture is a prison, it always was". Eduardo Galeano writes to MST, Via Campesina
ALAI AMLATNA 16/08/2006, Montevideo.
-Our countries are modernizing.
Now the official discourse demands honoring the debt (though it was dishonorable), attracting investments (though these are beneath our dignity), and enter the...
Dear Friends of the MST,
We want to ask for your solidarity. On August 20, the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) will deliver the final report about the 18,000 hectares of indigenous lands in the north of Espirito Santo, today owned by Aracruz Cellulose. The area originally belonged to the Tupiniquim and Guarani peoples but in 1967,...
[08/16/06] The Right to Land: MST inaugurates settlement in Cajamar, São Paulo
By: Ana Maria Straube
Over the past four years, 40 families of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) have fought and struggled for the expropriation of 120 hectares of land in the region of Cajamar, state of São Paulo. The land, which belonged to the...
RE: Support the MST & Via Campesina’s Campaign to Turn an Illegal Test Site
of Syngenta Seeds Corporation into a Center for Agroecological Research
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Dear Friends,
Terra de Direitos, a Brazilian civil society organization, calls upon
you to take action...
Dear friends of the MST,
We are choosing to send another “MST Informa
Dear Friends of the MST,
We have below the text of Silvia Ribeiro, researcher from the Mexican ETC group, who studies the impact of the introduction of transgenic seeds into rural cultures and the dominion of the world seed market.
World Bank Against Biosecurity
By Silvia Ribeiro
The basic role of...
By Fabio Murakawa
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva enjoys a big lead in opinion polls ahead of the country's presidential election on October 1, despite opposition from the powerful farming and food industry...
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SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Authorities are evicting thousands of peasants who have been ordered off ranches in northern Brazil by a court ruling obtained by the land owners, officials said Thursday.
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La Vía Campesina will form an agro-ecological contingent in Latin America
Fausto Torrez
ATC, CLOC-Vía Campesina
An agreement of technical agrarian cooperation was signed by La Via Campesina -MST and the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela on September 26, 2005, in Sabaneta, which is in Alberto Arvelo Torrealba...
[07/17/2006] MST and others hold rally in support of the Arab People, against Free Trade Agreement with Israel
Social movements in Brazil held a rally today in front of the Israeli embassy in Brasília, denouncing the Free Trade Agreement between Mercosul and Israel signed on December 8th, 2005 by representatives of Argentina, Brazil,...
