Soil, Struggle and Justice:
Agroecology in the Landless Workers Movement
(English subtitles)
You've bee
n following all these years our activities in the struggle for agrarian reform and a Brazilian society with more equality and social justice.
The political-ideological training and the educational process are as important to the MST as conquering the land in order to work and produce food.
Therefore, we are sending a proposal (click here) for you to engage in our movement, helping in the training processes and maintenance of Florestan Fernandes National School.
We are asking for your participation and solidarity. We count on you!
Sincerely, on behalf of all the MST militants and Brazilian popular movements:
Joao Pedro Stedile, MST National Coordination and Via Campesina, and Erivan Hilario administrative collective of ENFF.
For a video on ENFF, click here.
Agro-ecological space was built by the collective work of landless activists
By Riquieli Capitani
Frida Kahlo. This was the name given to the House of Arts, part of the Florestan Fernandes National School, (for MST political education) in the municipality of Guararema in São Paulo. The inauguration took place on the evening of January 21.
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo, known as Frida Kahlo, communist and...
by Mayrá Lima
On January 21, former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva visited the National School Florestan Fernandes (ENFF), accompanied by journalist and former minister Franklin Martins.
During the visit...
On Friday January 16 in the middle of thousands of hectares used for the monoculture of sugar cane , landless workers occupied the Tabapuã Farm, in Centenário Sul belonging to the Atalla Group, owner of the Central Sugar Cane Mill of Paraná.
Currently, more than 1500 families organized by the MST are living in encampments in the region, producing food where before only there was only sugar cane and poverty.
In addition to food production, land occupations have been transformed into rural communities that restore and recognize aspects of life such as education,...
Around 220 people from encampments from 20 classes of Youth and Adult Education (EJA) met on Saturday (January 10) to start along the road to literacy.
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The class...
Whoever thinks
of agribusiness and imagines large estates producing food for Brazil’s refrigerators is gravely mistaken. What the television doesn’t tell us is that agribusiness is a form of agricultural production in which food isn’t actually produced. It doesn’t tell us that agribusiness depends on large amounts of agritoxins, and that what is produced is, in the end, exported abroad – even if public resources are used. Even worse, most land is...
