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CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL MOBILIZATION FOR LULA’S FREEDOM

From April 17th to 25th in front of all Brazilian Embassies!

Days before the second anniversary of the coup d'état, Brazil and the world watched the arrest of Luís Inácio Lula da Silva in astonishment. He is the most important popular leader in the country during the last thirty years and one of the Presidents with the highest levels of international recognition for fighting poverty and reducing inequality.

The conviction and imprisonment of an innocent man, through a process with numerous errors and legal absurdities, without evidences and based only on statements from convicted informers in exchange for the benefit of their sentence reductions, represents the continuity of the 2016 coup. It also reveals the abandonment and subversion of the Brazilian democratic institutions by the right wing powers.

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The other side of the land of coal: MST settlements, agroecology and salvaged lives

Besides the production of seedlings of native trees, the world of settlements throughout the territories of Candiota, Hulha Negra and Aceguá is associated with the production of agroecological seeds and the preservation of native seeds.

The region of Candiota is a municipality located in the southern half of Rio Grande do Sul, near the border with Uruguay, known to harbor the largest coal mine in the country, with more than 1 billion tons of ore. It’s the land of coal. Whoever travels today along Highway BR 293, in the region of Seival, in Candiota, has this impression reinforced when they see the towering construction of the Pampa Sul thermal power plant. Early in the morning of February 6, hundreds of employees entered the construction site for another work day. Many of them are Chinese. The presence of manual labor and Chinese capital is illustrated by bilingual signs (in Portuguese and Mandarin), banners and other signs around the construction site. Scheduled to go into operation in 2019, the new plant is being built by the Engie Corporation (formerly Tractebel) with the Chinese technology company SDEPCI. READ MORE.

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Protest to repudiate Sérgio Moro's presence at Harvard University

The Boston FMST chapter along with other groups protested the presence of Sérgio Moro, prosecutor of Lula, at Harvard Law School on April 16, 2018. Moro was invited to speak by the Harvard Law Brazilian Studies. Harvard University, the most important think tank of the coup, opened its doors to Sérgio Moro, Raquel Dodge (Attorney General), Luis Barroso...

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