Throughout Brazil, the women of Via Campesina triggered the Day of Struggles of Women to condemn the excessive use of pesticides by Brazilian cultivation, the responsibility of the agribusiness production model.
To date, six states are mobilized to denounce the harmful effects on health and the environment of the annual use of over a...
Women workers from the countryside and the city this year again are carrying out national days of struggle around the 8th of March – International Women’s Day.
Earlier on Tuesday (March 1), about 800 women occupied the courtyard of Braskem, Odebrecht Group1 in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre.
The action is...
Written by Ronildo Brito
The regional coordination of the Movement of Landless Workers (MST), said in remembrance of Roseli Nunes1, some 1,200 landless women, occupied on the morning of...
Farmers call for the immediate expropriation of the old power plant Ariadnópolis, who has for years blocked the process in INCRA and the...
The MST is demanding justice and is calling for the killers of farmers Vanderlei das Neves and José Alves dos Santos to be punished. Both were brutally murdered in ambush on the farm Pinhal Ralo, 16 January 1997, in the city of Rio Bonito do Iguaçu (PR).
“The MST regards the case as one among many which, in more than a decade, have left...
By Benjamin Dangl, UK Guardian
Just days after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was inaugurated on new year's day, thousands of activists from the Landless Farmers Movement (MST) took over three expanses of land and various government buildings, demanding the...
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Natalia Viana, 22 December 2010, 14.00 GMT
New cables published by Wikileaks reveal that the U.S. embassy and consulates in Brazil are deeply concerned about the Landless People’s Movement (...
When the confetti was still falling after her victory at the polls on October 31, Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's first female president-elect, said, "I want to state my first...
By Vanessa Ramos MST Dilma Rousseff promises not to criminalize social movements, but in fact what should we expect from the president-elect? Will Agrarian Reform be able to move forward during the new government? These and other policy issues have left many people worried. However, asserting the necessity of making a “revolution in the field...
