Dear Friends of the MST,
The fact that so many popular movements, unions, and student groups from all over the country have come together to build a Day of Struggle on May 23 shows that there is a revival of working class mobilizations. Since the People’s Plebiscite Against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americans in 2002, there has...
IRC Americas Program Report
Allied with Brazilian Agribusiness, Syngenta Resists Governor's Decree to Expropriate Site
Rennie Lee | May 17, 2007
Americas Program, International Relations Center (IRC) americas.irc-online.org
March 14 marked the one-year anniversary of the Via Campesina's non-violent occupation of...
Brazil Man Guilty in Killing of US Nun
Tuesday May 15, 2007 9:01 PM
Guardian Unlimited
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BELEM, Brazil (AP) - A Brazilian rancher was found guilty Tuesday of ordering the killing of American nun and rain forest defender Dorothy Stang, a judge announced following a two-day trial.
Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura was...
Letter from the Landless Mothers
We speak to the sons and daughters of the land from all nations. To those who were not invited to the banquet. To those who have been waiting in the queue of history for centuries. We will not be spectators at a film waiting for the light to go out. It’s time to believe in the possibility of...
RIGHTS-BRAZIL:
Homeless Join Month of Protests
Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 25 (IPS) - The Homeless Workers Movement (MTST) blocked three access roads into Sao Paulo on Wednesday, continuing a month-long struggle during which they have invaded a large number of buildings and unoccupied urban sites in several state capitals...
Sister Dorothy Stang to be immortalized
By Sr. Roseanna Murphy
Issue date: 4/26/07 Section: News
Published in The Argonaut @ www.theargonaut.net
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Sr. Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN, was walking along a dirt path to a meeting of poor farmers in the middle of the Amazon Forest...
Forum in Mali: Building consensus
By João Pedro Stedile
The global Forum on Food Sovereignty that took place in Mali, Africa, represented an important landmark in the building of connections between international networks and social movements sharing this common goal. It also enabled us to establish a much wider common concept of...
[04/26/07] Brazil: 11 Years After Police Massacre of 19 Landless Nobody Has Been Punished
Written by Nina Fideles
Thursday, 26 April 2007
Brazilians just commemorated the 11th anniversary of the Massacre at Eldorado dos Carajás on April 17, 2006. On this day, 19 rural workers were assassinated in the state of Pará, in nothern...
BRAZIL: Dispossessed Demand Land, Health, Justice
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 16 (IPS) - The Brazilian capital woke up to another "red April" Monday. Eight hundred landless peasants occupied the headquarters of the government office in charge of land distribution, while 1,000 indigenous people camped out on the Ministries...
Brazil's homeless and landless unite
By Gary Duffy
BBC News, Sao Paulo
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Brazil's landless and homeless movements have been on the march in April, bringing renewed attention to their demands in a month of protests.
In the countryside, protest action is led by the controversial and better known organisation of...
