Women’s Protest at Aracruz Celebrates 5 Years [3-4-11]
By Bianca Costa
On the morning of March 8, 2006, 1,800 women from Via Campesina carried out a major action against the monoculture of eucalyptus in Rio Grande do Sul.
Women against Industrial Poisons Paralyze the Coast Highway in São Paulo [3-3-11]
By Maria Aparecida 
Earlier on Thursday (March 3), about 600 women from Via Campesina and other social movements have closed part of Highway Cônego Domênico Rangoni, also known as Piaçaguera-Guaruja, which gives access to the industrial complex of Cubatão on the coast of São Paulo.
More Than a Thousand Women March Against Pesticides in Ceará [3-2-11]
Over 1,000 women from the social movements of Ceará, the MST, the Movement of People's Councils and the Center of Popular Movements, made two marches to denounce the negative impacts to human health and the environment with excessive use of pesticides in Brazil and impact.
In Fortaleza, more than 600 women marched towards the Palace of the Abolition of the State Government. In Santa Quitéria, 500 women protest against the installation of mine Itataia1.
Rural Women Protest Use of Toxic Agrochemicals [3-3-11]
Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 3 (IPS) - Thousands of women farmers in Brazil demonstrated this week against the use of toxic weedkillers and 
pesticides on crops and in favour of agricultural techniques that protect their families' health.
Peasant Protests in Six States [3-2-11]
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 billion liters of poisons, according to data from the National Association of Industrial Products for Agricultural Defense.
Brazil ranks first in the list of countries consuming pesticides since 2009.
Peasant Women in Protest at Braskem [3-1-11]
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 organized by the women of Via Campesina, Movement of Unemployed Workers (MTD), the Youth and Inter-Union Mobilization and integrates the national day of women's struggles.
MST Farm Workers Occupy Plantation of Veracel in Eunápolis [2-28-11]
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 Monday (February 28), a farm in Eunápolis, a distance about 08 KM from the city center.
This occupation is part of the calendar to commemorate the International Women's Day (March 8) that will be remembered throughout Brazil by the MST.
MST occupies plantation in Minas Gerais [2/21/11]
Farmers call for the immediate expropriation of the old power plant Ariadnópolis, who has for years blocked the process in INCRA and the
judiciary.
About 600 landless peasants occupied, on Monday (February 21), the headquarters of Ariadnópolis plant, in southern Minas Gerais.
