For nearly 40 years, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) has been fighting the concentration of landownership among the country’s elite through the direct occupation and settlement of fallow lands. Now a Parliamentary Inquiry Commission, which has been set up to investigate the activities of Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), actually seeks to divert focus from illegal actions committed by agribusiness.
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Brazil: Rural LGBT+ Struggle Echoes the Voices of Those Who Have Been Silenced by Violence
Within grassroots rural movements, the struggle for LGBT+ rights is combined with the struggle for food sovereignty in the pursuit of a just world, with freedom and diversity, and equal relationships between people and nature. In Brazil, solidarity has been at the center of the struggle against LGBTphobia in rural areas.
Brazil: La Via Campesina’s LGBTI+ Seminar addresses diversity in the rural areas
The 1st State Seminar on Sexuality and Sexual Diversity organized by La Via Campesina brought… Read more →
Brazil: Landless Women mobilize in defense of life this March 8
In the most difficult moment of the pandemic, which is plaguing Brazil and which –… Read more →
MST Quilombo Campo Grande camp resists eviction in the midst of the pandemic
The Quilombo Campo Grande camp is resisting an eviction which began early on August 12.… Read more →
MST offers Centro Paulo Freire as a field hospital for patients with COVID-19
The state administration of the MST in Pernambuco made the structure of the Paulo Freire… Read more →
Brazil: Do not drink coffee from those who expel peasants from the land! Join this campaign!
These companies buy coffee from one of the biggest coffee producers in Brazil, João Faria… Read more →
Brazil: Quilombo Campo Grande suffers threats from Fascism
We, the MST families of Southern MG, of Quilombo Campo Grande, denounce fascist action against… Read more →
Brazil: Landless workers set off on historic march, “The people will encircle Brasília”
Here is how the national march staged by the MST from August 10th through 15th… Read more →
A week of hunger strike: The Federal Supreme Court is responsible for life of Brazilian militants
Protesters alert the judges of the Supreme Court that their decisions may result in the… Read more →