Event brought together 2,000 friends of the Movement who celebrated the resistance of the struggle for land and popular culture
This Saturday (November 22), the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) joined the Acadêmicos do Tatuapé Samba School to welcome friends of the Movement, in an event full of feijoada and samba, transforming the Elza Soares Cultural Space into a large open-air venue, creating a carnival atmosphere in São Paulo.
During the event, the samba-intrigue of the 2026 carnival school was presented to the public, entitled: "Planting to harvest and feed: there is a lot of land without people, there are many people without land;" a theme inspired by the struggle of the Landless people for Agrarian Reform and the production of food by family farming. Approximately 2,000 people attended the event and enjoyed a delicious feijoada, prepared by the staff of Dona Ilda Martins' Kitchen.
Among the artists who performed cultural presentations were Mestre Thiago with the participation of Marco Antônio from Nenê de Vila Matilde, Elizeth Rosa from Vai-Vai, Simone Tobias from Camisa Verde e Branco, Luis Carlos and Tigana from Acadêmicos do Tatuapé, who entertained everyone with a beautiful samba circle.
Next, the front commission, the drum section, the dancers, the master of ceremonies and flag bearer of Acadêmicos do Tatuapé opened the wings of the Cultural Space, presenting the school's compositions, and the samba-enredo for the next carnival, which has in its refrain:
“There’s a party in the countryside, until dawn
Divide this land, for our people to harvest!
Tatuapé, call me and I’ll go!
Pull the bellows, accordion player, to the beat of the agogô!”
Moved by the encounter between the working class of the countryside and the city, João Paulo Rodrigues, from the national leadership of the MST (Landless Workers' Movement), highlighted the symbolic importance of the theme: “I am very grateful to the comrades of the samba school for the audacity of creating a theme that dialogues with the peasant, indigenous and quilombola Brazil, the Brazil that produces food. This samba has a commitment to the country and to our people.”
In Carnival, the flag bearer represents a guardian of the symbol and of her samba group. And this meeting between the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) and the Acadêmicos do Tatuapé samba school was marked by the union of two flags that together will wave on the main samba runway in São Paulo, representing the entire Tatuapé community and the Landless Workers' Movement in their engaged struggle for social justice and People’s Agrarian Reform in Brazil.
Photos: Regina Jerônimo
