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Marielle's seeds blossom in the struggle for land in MST encampments

5 years after the murder of the councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro, her legacy of struggle inspires landless camps in the fight for Agrarian Reform

The history of struggle and resistance built by the trajectory of bravery and responsibility for popular causes makes Marielle Franco eternal. In the countryside, her steps continue to vibrate with the same force that inspires male and female fighters in the four corners of the country: since her physical departure, Marielle has been honored with Landless Encampments that reaffirm the struggle for land at the center of the issues facing Brazil today.

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Slave labor areas must be destined for agrarian reform, says MST leader João Paulo Rodrigues

According to him, the wineries case isn’t the only one: “What concerns us is the invisibility of precarious works”

“That’s agribusiness in its essence.” That’s how the national coordinator of Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST, in Portuguese) João Paulo Rodrigues assesses the operation carried out by the Department of Labor Inspection of the Ministry of Labor and Employment, the Brazilian Department of Labor (MPT- Rio Grande do Sul state), the Federal Police, and the Federal Highway Police that rescued workers living under labor analogous to slavery in the grape harvest in the town of Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul state, on February 22.

“If the Brazilian agribusiness [companies] be inspected, there will be found many areas similar to those recently discovered in the wineries. What concerns us is the invisibility of precarious works in rural areas around the country, which have low average wages and few rights,” highlights Rodrigues to Brasil de Fato, also mentioning that it’s still necessary to apply punishments provided by law. “What the Constitution says is that these areas where slave labor occurred must be destined for agrarian reform. That is, it’s not just about fining the companies. The law determines it.” Read the interview with João Paulo Rodrigues

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MST undergoes 'rebranding' and approaches cities and the middle class

[NOTE: This section usually focusses on the work of FMST. We thought that this article from a mainstream newspaper shows how the view of the MST has changed over time.]

Movement focuses efforts on flags such as agroecology and seeks to gain scale in production

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