Murders in the countryside are at the highest level since 2003
Today the Pastoral Commission on Land (Comissão Pastoral da Terra, CPT ) is publishing data about rural conflicts in Brazil in the year 2017.
"Data on Agrarian Reform in the Temer government shows it is more than failing. It is a project of annihilation."
According to Keli Mafort, of the national coordination of the MST, the agrarian counter-reform by the coup government must be defeated in the struggle.
MST Folia occupies the streets of Prado in a great celebration for democracy
With joy and irreverence, the MST Folia bloc has drawn important guidelines around the struggle for democracy
MST reoccupies area in Xanxerê, Santa Catarina
The place is the same where the encampment Marcelino Chiarello was violently evicted in November 2017.
On Saturday morning, February 17, 2018, 400 families of the MST of Santa Catarina reoccupied the area where the encampment Marcelino Chiarello suffered a violent eviction in November 2017.
Slave Labor, Deforestation and Greed Create Crisis in Brazilian Countryside
Many believe agribusiness pulled Brazil out of the worst recession in its history. Estimates for 2017 register a scant 0.4% growth after four years of crisis, according to the Boletim Focus from the National Central Bank. Agribusiness represents almost 23% of Brazil’s GDP.
The 10 worst events of 2017 that affected the life of Brazilian people
The continuity of the coup government of Michel Temer and of his parliamentarians in the Congress is one of the negatives points of this year.
The question that prevails is: What to expect of 2018?
Every new year there is a balance of the advances and setbacks in the life of the people. But in this 2017, filled with memorable events, it is difficult to chose.
MST land activists to win prestigious agroecology award
The Landless Worker’s Movement (MST) will be awarded the Juliana Santilli prize for conservation and agro-ecology.
Members of Brazil’s largest social movement the Landless Worker’s Movement (MST) will be awarded the Juliana Santilli prize for conservation and sustainable use of agro-biodiversity.
Landless Culture: struggle, organization, production and poetry
The revolutionary culture we envision in our militant practice is action for liberation, on all fronts.
REPORT: Human Rights Committee attributes increased violence in the countryside to state neglect
Open letter of the Brazilian Committee of Human Rights Defenders affirms that the public power stopped acting to prevent deaths and murders previously announced
Cry repudiates withdrawal of working class rights by coup government
Among the central demands of the Cry of the Excluded were the defense of social security, the annulment of the Labor Reform and the fight against the privatizations of Eletrobras and Petrobras.
