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Dear Friends of the MST,
We write to let you know that Almir Silva Xavier and Everaldo Miguel Oliveira, MST rural workers and human rights defenders, have been jailed in the town of
Written by Newsroom
Monday, 12 February 2007
About 250 Kaingang, Guarani and Charrua indigenous people from Brazil performed rituals in memory of the death of Sepé Tiaraju 251 years ago on February 7 in São Gabriel, state of Rio Grande do Sul.
They performed rituals in Sanga da Bica, where the Guarani leader died, and...
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--The Swiss multinational seed and crop science corporation, Syngenta AG (SYT), is in the crosshairs of an anti-transgenic seed dispute it might not win in Brazil.
On Nov. 9, for the first time ever in a Latin America nation, Syngenta had one of its genetically modified crop research facilities shut down and...
For the MST’s leadership, the challenge is to build unity among the country’s social movements.
Marches, mobilizations, land occupations. These are some of the actions the MST will continue to realize as the year begins. The objective is to pressure the federal government to take concrete measures to resolve the problem of Brazil’s...
More than 600 MST families occupied an abandoned farm, “Toca da Raposa
[01/23/07] Food Sovereignty at the World Social Forum
by Stephen Bartlett, Agricultural Missions/ National Family Farm Coalition/ Via Campesina
Standing outside Gate # 14 of the Kasarani Sports Stadium on the outskirts of Nairobi with ears of organically grown white corn and a sign that said: "Food Sovereignty: Strategies for...
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Public Statement
AI Index: AMR 19/002/2007 (Public)
News Service No: 007
12 January 2007
Available online @ http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGAMR190022007...
The Struggle for the Expropriation of Syngenta:
Showdown Between the Social Movements and Agribusiness in Brazil
by Isabella Kenfield
January 07, 2007
Published on ZNET @ http://www.zmag.org/content/...
End of Year Message from the MST's National Coordinating Body
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At the end of the year we sum up another period of struggle.
But at the end of the year we also prepare for the new day and it’s in this period that the rain waters the land and the seed gathers strength from the earth.
Although in some moments the...
December, 2006
Activists of the MST, La Via Campesina and the other social movements are all very proud and pleased with the recognition - by Brazilian society - of our militant legal defendors.
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(1) Jacques Alfonsin: Lawyer of the peoples' movements, the MST, a judicial advisor, and a founding member of RENAP (National...