MST offers Centro Paulo Freire as a field hospital for patients with COVID-19
In addition, the movement's state directorate has guided solidarity campaigns in Recife, Caruaru and Petrolina
In PE, MST families donate 1,500 kilos of organic food to a social project
Free of transgenics and pesticides, the vegetables will be used to prepare lunch boxes for the needy population
Since the end of March, the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in partnership with other popular movements, non-governmental organizations, unions and other entities linked to the Brazil Popular Front have been distributing lunch boxes to the homeless in Recife (PE).
15 measures to protect yourself from coronavirus when selling food
In addition to the valuable task of providing food to the urban population, each MST activist has the mission of preventing coronavirus from preparation to the sale of products
On the day Madero laid off 600 workers, the MST donated 12 tons of rice
Reactions to the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic have highlighted different aspects of Brazilian society. On April 1, in São Paulo (SP), the Madero restaurant chain announced the layoff of 600 workers. On the same day, in Rio Grande do Sul, the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) announced that it will donate 12 tons of organic rice to help compose the basic food basket for vulnerable people.
MST cooperative donates 70% alcohol to hospital in Paraná
In addition to the solidarity actions that spread throughout Brazil, the president of Copavi emphasizes the decisive role of the state: "Many families are deprived of work, and will have no alternative but this urgent help from the state"
“Burning the Amazon is a crime against humanity,” Via Campesina Brazil
“The Amazon is a territory of life, food, water, and cultures, not destruction, death, and exploitation”
Brazil’s natural resources are targets for a capitalism in crisis, says MST leader
In the opening of seminar that debates agrarian and environmental issues, Stedile analyses global economic landscape
Caetano Veloso visits the settlement of the MST in the Recôncavo da Bahia
Received with enthusiasm in the land where he was born, Caetano knows the history of struggle and resistance of the settlement Paulo Cunha
Brazilian state of Ceará bans aerial crop dusting
Movements celebrated measure and will now fight for agroecological farming to replace current fruit production system
The governor of Ceará, Camilo Santana, signed a bill into law this week banning crop dusting in the northern Brazilian state. The measure was welcomed by people’s movements that have been exposing the problems of pesticide abuse in the area.
Hunger strikers denounce attacks on Brazil’s sovereignty
Activists point out expansion of finance capital and concerns about state-owned companies Petrobras and Eletrobras
