Worldwide Peasant Struggles

The day of struggle will denounce foreign capital in Brazilian agriculture through transnational corporations, drawing the attention of society to the destructive model of agribusiness

Against the Reform of Social Security, the Labor Reform and the model of development of the capital in the countryside, the MST starts on Monday (March 6) the National Day of Struggles of the Landless Women in denouncing the loss of rights and the setbacks promoted by the coup and illegitimate government of Michel Temer (PMDB).

The company's debt is R$ 276 million [$87 million].

On Tuesday (March 7) morning, about 1,500 landless rural workers occupied Vale's fertilizer unit in Cubatão, on the edge of the Cônego Domênico Rangoni Highway, 40 km from the state capital of São Paulo.

The action sought to draw the attention of state parliamentarians to vote against reform.
 

Around 100 women from the Via Campesina, the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) and the Popular Levante de Juventude [Popular Youth Rising] held a protest against the Social Security Reform of the government of Michel Temer (PMDB) at dawn on Tuesday, March 7. Salgado Filho International Airport, in Porto Alegre (RS).
 

The headquarters of Social Security in Belém was also occupied to denounce the pension reform and the coup government of Michel Temer.

On the morning of this Wednesday (March 8), about 1,000 MST women, unions, black movement, left wing parties, students, Fetagri, MAB [Movement of People Affectd by the Dams], neighborhood movements, Popular Consultation and Popular Youth Rising held Women's March in Belém.

"Our occupation here, adds to the acts in the whole country against any posture that threatens our conquests"
 

During the march, an act was also carried out in front of the Federal Public Ministry to demand from this institution an action aimed at defending the collective rights of society.

Focus of the actions is the fight against the proposal of reform of the Social Security, of the coup government of Michel Temer.

Finally came the 8th of March, a date so expected by all popular movements, and this year has assumed a character of confrontation with the agenda of the coup government, which seeks to deepen the gender inequalities already so entrenched in our society.
 

In the municipality of Chapecó, about 5,000 protesters marched through the city's streets in order to dialogue with the population and add strength to the mobilizations taking place across the country on March 8, 2017, International Women’s Day.

"We Landless Women fight against the criminalization of popular movements and against the arrest and political persecution of members of the MST"
 

March arrives and brings with it the incomparable energy of the days of confrontation against patriarchy and the Capital that so oppresses women.