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Dear friends of the MST,
Today is the 40th anniversary of the death of the revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara. In countries around the world and especially in Latin America, activists from the left and social movements are carrying out events to commemorate the man who has been transformed into one of the greatest symbols of struggle for...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A group of Brazilian landless peasants threatened on Monday to block a railroad run by mining giant CVRD and halt iron ore shipments from Carajas area in a protest to demand the company's renationalization. The radical leftist Landless Workers' Movement also said 3.6 million people voted for the return of CVRD...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A group of Brazilian landless peasants threatened on Monday to block a railroad run by mining giant CVRD and halt iron ore shipments from Carajas area in a protest to demand the company's renationalization.
The radical leftist Landless Workers' Movement also said 3.6 million people voted for the return...
CHARLIE ROSE: What do you say to those critics on the left who say you have not been as -- you have not accomplished their agenda, you have not been forceful on their side? LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA (through translator): For example, just for you to understand, for almost 30 years in my life, I did the following speech. I will go and undertake...
Dear Friends of the MST,
This week we in the MST are again embarking on a campaign for Agrarian Reform. We are carrying out occupations and marches in various states that are aimed at pressuring the state governments and the federal government to immediately carry out agrarian reform, which for some time has been bogged down in our...
Since 1985, Brazilian families have in large numbers taken to the MST’s call for “bottom-up” agrarian reform. What started as a coalition of 400 families has swelled into a 1.5 million-member force that desires to shift the policy of individual land ownership to a more equitable system “based on cooperative relations among direct workers.” ......
Latin American farmers speak on rights issues
Pablo Albilal / Contributing Writer
Issue date: 9/14/07
Farmers from Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala and others spoke Wednesday at the River Lounge in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus [of Rutgers University]. The panel...
BELEM, Brazil, Sep 19 (IPS/IFEJ) - Devastation, violent land conflicts and rapid -- but short-lived -- economic growth are the traces left by deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon over the last 30 years, according to a new study...This dynamic was revealed by researchers Adalberto Veríssimo and Danielle Celentano, of Imazon (Institute of Man...
[09/10/2007] The Agrofuels Trap. By Laura Carlsen
Agrofuel development has arrived on the global stage. Just this year, the number of declarations, dollars, and development plans that have gone to agrofuels are unparalleled in any other sector. An idea that languished for decades has suddenly become the darling of politicians, big...
What do you get when you fuse the most brutal landowners of the Global South with some of the most powerful corporations of the North, such as Monsanto, DuPont, British Petroleum and Morgan Stanley? You get transnational corporations that reap billions of dollars in profits, Brazil’s landowning elite with a new lease on its degenerate lifestyle...