Agrarian Reform

Court suspends eviction from Marielle Vive! encampment

Repossession process for encampment in Valinhos (SP) must undergo further analysis

The Court of Justice of São Paulo (TJSP) suspended for 90 days the order of repossession of the area including the Marielle Vive! encampment, in Valinhos (SP), in the region of Campinas. The court ruling guarantees that as long as the case is under consideration, the 700 families will not be evicted.

Police arrest man who confessed to driving through MST protest and killing activist

Truck attack happened in Valinhos, outside São Paulo, when families from the Marielle Vive Camp held a demonstration

The police arrested on Thursday evening Leo Luiz Ribeiro, who confessed to killing a 72-year-old landless farmer during a demonstration held by the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Valinhos, an hour-drive out of São Paulo.

Driver rams truck into demonstration, kills 72-year-old outside MST encampment in Brazil

An MST member was killed and a journalist was injured after a truck was driven over protesters in Valinhos, São Paulo

A driver rammed a truck at high speed on Thursday into a demonstration held by landless families who live in the Marielle Vive Camp in Valinhos, a one-hour drive out of São Paulo, Brazil, killing an elderly man and injuring a journalist.

"We will continue the struggle and the defense of Education in the Countryside and the MST"

Manifesto of educators of the schools of settlements in Espirito Santo July 15, 2019

The MST held the 31st State Meeting of Educators of the Agrarian Reform Settlement Schools of Espírito Santo, held at the Center for Training of Family Agriculture in São Mateus, north of the state, on July 11, 12 and 13, 2019.

Marielle Vive Encampment

On March 14, 2018, Marielle Franco and Anderson Gomes were gunned down on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. On April 14, 2018, a determined group of landless workers began an occupation of unproductive land on the rolling green hills near Campinas, São Paulo state. The occupation established an encampment named Marielle Vive (Marielle Lives) in honor of the slain fighter for justice for women, Afro-Brazilians and the LBGTQ community.

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