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Florestan Fernandes National School celebrates 15th anniversary

MST families and educators plant 1,000 trees in an encampment in Paraná

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National Coordination of the MST: Letter to the Brazilian People

The Movement signed commitments in the struggle for Agrarian Reform, against the withdrawal of rights of the Brazilian people, in defense of the environment and national sovereignty

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Evictions, murders and paralyzed land reform mark Bolsonaro government's first year

by Cristiane Passos - Communication Sector of the CPT National Secretariat

29 murders until December 2019 in conflicts in the countryside, according to partial data from the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT). Constant evictions have become reality once again in the Brazilian countryside, and even with 66 land reform settlement projects ready to be carried out in various regions of the country, the Bolsonaro government has not settled any families in these locations.

A report by the newspaper Folha de São Paulo showed that these 66 settlement projects correspond to 111,426 hectares for land reform in various regions of the country and would have the capacity to house 3,862 families. The area is equivalent in size to the municipality of Rio de Janeiro.

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To Occupy, Resist and Produce - MST Fairs

Video and English subtitles from Pagina do MST, December 2019

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One year since the Brumadinho disaster: locals struggle, Vale profits

Miner has recovered its market value, while 93,000 people affected by dam burst will have relief payments cut in half

By Pedro Stropasolas, from Brumadinho

Edilaine Pereira Coimbra never had any relationship with Vale, but, like many others, she was by the Paraopeba River when the mud came pouring down on that January 25th, 2019. All she had time to do was cut her fishing lines, get her three children she raised with the income from fishing, and go down a path of no return.

Life became meager. Today the fisher lives off a minimum wage she receives from the mining giant Vale and the money she makes selling snacks and candies on the streets of a neighborhood that has no official records with the city government of Betim, 25 kilometeres (15 miles) outside Brumadinho.

“I can assure you, everyone just wanted their lives back. We wanted our river to be clean. That was so much better than having to get that minimum wage now every month. And now it’s not even the minimum wage anymore. They think we are beggars. No one is begging. [Vale] did this, so it has to pay.” Read the entire story HERE.

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Occupying Schools, Occupying Land

by Fernanda Alcântara

Over the past 35 years, the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) has been known worldwide for organizing thousands of landless workers to occupy large estates in order to earn the right to land, health, education and to develop production practices for healthy and agroecological food.

Professor and researcher Rebecca Tarlau has spent...

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