FIAN Brazil launches report exposing how authoritarianism has drastically eroded the right to food in the country.
In 2014 Brazil was officially removed from the FAO/UN Hunger Map, a significant achievement for a country still considered a “developing nation.” Nonetheless, authoritarianism’s hold on power further aggravated the setbacks put in place after the coup in 2016.
US political activist and author spoke with Brasil de Fato during her visit to MST national school
Angela Davis is visiting Brazil at the invitation of the Rosa Luxemburgo Foundation and the Boitempo publisher, for the release of her autobiography, published for the first time in Brazil 45 years after it was originally released in the United States.
34th day of resistance!
After completing 34 days of struggle at the Resistance Camp in Defense of Paulo Freire Training Center and the Normandia Settlement, we had a great legal victory: Judge Manoel Erhardt decided to suspend the decision of the 24th Federal Court of Caruaru -PE , which determined the eviction of the Paulo Freire Training Center, a collective area of the Normandia Settlement.
The Movement says it will resist, and the Pernambuco government is mobilizing to avoid the eviction
AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE IS A LINK TO ANOTHER ARTICLE THAT INCLUDES WAYS YOU CAN HELP FIGHT THIS EVICTION.
Opinion by: Marília Arraes, Federal Congresswoman, Worker’s Party, Pernambuco
The story is long and more like a script from those horror movies that make us lose sleep.
Video presents the agroecological production of the Contestado settlement, located in Lapa (PR), 60 kilometers from Curitiba
The short film “What is agroecology” won the Global Youth Video Contest on Climate Change - TVEBioMovies 2019, sponsored by the United Nations (UN). The film was produced by the young Rafael Forsetto and Kiane Assis, and won the category “food and human health.”
The bill was voted and approved by the São Paulo City Council and was officially published by the Parliamentary Secretary Genera on September 4, 2019
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.
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.
