On March 14, 2018, Marielle Franco and Anderson Gomes were gunned down on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. On April 14, 2018, a determined group of landless workers began an occupation of unproductive...
This documentary includes the first indepth interview with Lula since his incarceration over one year ago.
The series of four reports presents three experiences of countryside schools in MST settlements that are exemplary in teaching: Piauí, Pará and Paraná. These schools are among the two thousand that resist the difficulties faced in rural areas, such as long distances, training, lack of infrastructure and prejudice, and break with the imagery that the rural schools are backward. Brasil de Fato talked to educators, students, settled families and the MST about education, and brings perspectives on the challenges of these schools in the Bolsonaro government.
Read the full REPORT.
On April 18, 2019, in honor of the International Day of Peasant Struggle, the Family Farm Defenders (a member of La Via Campesina), the Friends of the MST and other allies protested at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). The CME is the private agency that trades in soy, cheese, hogs, animal feed and lumber, among other commodities. The CME sets the prices...
