Company owes more than R$200 million to the Union; 400 families participate in the mobilization on the morning of this Monday (February 10)
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Company owes more than R$200 million to the Union; 400 families participate in the mobilization on the morning of this Monday (February 10)
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In this two part series, the MST exposes the struggle for resources from Brazil's Government
MST, policies for Agrarian Reform and budget by the Federal Government (Part 1)
Along 40 years of struggle, the Landless Movement has been using the occupation of unproductive large estates, buildings and public spaces in the whole country as a form of pressure to the federal and state governments for the creation of registration for aims of agrarian reform, thinking about the registration of an immense liabilities of landless families that they still exist in the country.
After years of struggle to gain land rights, the next step for the workers is to continue new processes of struggle with the federal government and state and municipal governments in the search for public policies and credits, so that these families are able to produce and survive in the conquered areas.
MST settlements report lack of budget for infrastructure and basic rights (Part 2)
In the struggle for land, after the Landless families of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) achieved the Movement's first objective, which is the democratization of land with the transformation of a large estate into a settlement area, and in majority of times, it is only possible after years of struggle, living in camps of canvas tents in an itinerant and precarious way, then new processes of struggle begin to achieve the second objective of the Movement, the realization of People's Agrarian Reform.
The families, after settling, mobilized to continue the fight, now on the land and guarantee their permanence in this space, which previously generally housed animal husbandry, monoculture production, the use of pesticides and degraded areas. To return to generating life in these spaces, recovering the soil, the environment and establishing housing for food production, families need to remain organized and fight for the implementation of a set of public policies for the development of these territories. And thus advance the third objective of the MST, social transformation and the construction of socialism, in a society with relationships free from any type of discrimination and violence, and with social justice.
This dossier focuses on the MST’s tactics and forms of organization and why it is the only peasant social movement in Brazil’s history that has managed to survive for over a decade in the face of the political, economic, and military power of Brazil’s large landowners
Read the full report including downloads of the dossier in English and Spanish
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Healthy food is not produced through unhealthy relationships!
Healthy food cannot be produced through unhealthy relationships! The work of peasant women in agroecological production and the defense of common goods holds political, social, and economic significance, aiming for protagonism and autonomy as a feminist practice, primarily in the construction of Popular Peasant Feminism.
It is important to make visible these spaces of construction, considering that we still experience gender relations in the countryside that are hierarchical, patriarchal, and racialized, easily observable in the daily lives of communities/settlements/camps. As Moura, Marques, and Oliveira (2016) found in studies conducted in settlement areas and other communities, women participate in family agricultural production; however, a strong gender inequality renders this work invisible, demonstrating that the sexual division of labor permeates the organization of life in the territories.
One way to render women’s work invisible is through the concept of “help,” where their multiple trips in the field, in the cooperative, and in dealing with animals are considered merely complementary to men’s work, just as their income is understood as supplemental to family income—essentially as “help.” Additionally, the responsibility for household care, the yard, and the people around them continues to fall almost exclusively on the women in the house, often assigned to girls at a young age, impacting their access to education, their time for play as a necessary practice for cognitive development, and their right to leisure and rest. Read the article.