[11-06-09] MST Informa #175 We Will Not Be Silent
Plots of the ruling class - sectors of the judiciary, the Congress, the national court of accounts, prosecutors and the media - are crafting another offensive against the MST and the workers.
[10-5-09] MST Informa #173: With society’s support, we keep fighting
We would like to thank everyone who has shown their solidarity with our movement and contributed towards the denunciations against the attack on democracy, promoted by the reactionary sectors of th
[08-31-09] MST Informa #171: Information for our friends regarding the attack of the bourgeois media on the MST
We have demonstrated throughout the whole country and set up a pre-land occupation encampment in Brasilia in defence of Agrarian Reform, accomplishing important successes regarding solutions to the
[07/07/09 MST News] More Rural Workers Are Assassinated in Pernambuco
The struggle for land has more victims in the Brazilian countryside. This time, five workers were killed.
[MST Alert 06-24-09]Trial of Colonel Who Commanded the Massacre of Carajás Is Postponed
The trial of the colonel of the Military Police of Pará who commanded the massacre of Eldorado de Carajás, Mário Pantoja de Oliveira, has been postponed once again.
[06/22/09] MST Informa #168: Maintain the conviction of Colonel Mario Pantoja
“If we silence ourselves, the stones will cry out” (Pedro Tierra) The Fifth Session of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) will rule this week on the appeal presented by Colonel Mario Colares Pan
New Offensive Against the MST
by Plinio Arruda Sampaio Published in Folha de S.
[02/03/09] MST Informa #162: The current offensive against the MST
In recent days, the press has been giving rise to a series of materials about the MST that express an offensive of the right-wing forces.
[02/06/09] MST Informa #161: A Note of Solidarity and Sorrow
The Landless Workers Movement (MST) announces its sorrow at the death on Thursday February 5 of the Federal Deputy Adão Pretto and extends its solidarity to the family at this time of loss for Braz
[06/01/08] Informa #151 - Legalization of Land Grabbing
Esteemed friends of the MST, The approval of Provisionary Measure 422, Medida Provisória (MP) 422, by the federal deputies on Tuesday night, May 27, a few hours after the resignation of Marina Silva, the Ministry of the Environment, confirms that the defense of biodiversity is losing the battle against deforestation and development at whatever cost, which are defended by diverse sectors of the government. The recently approved MP 422 can be translated as the “legalization of land grabbing”. It deals with the sale of public lands of up to 1,500 hectares without bidding— broadening the limit by a thousand hectares—under the tutelage of INCRA (National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform, or Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária).
