Portraits of MST Settlers
“I was born in Redentor near Tenente Portela in the north of Rio Grande do Sul state. My father farmed ...
New Chance, New Challenge for Brazil’s Landless Movement
“We will carry out an ambitious program of agrarian reform that will make land available to thousands and thousands of ...
Homeless Movement Gains Ground
Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) is widely regarded as one of the world’s most dynamic mass movements. In the ...
Brazil’s Landless Find Their Voice
Founded in 1984, the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) is today the largest social movement in Brazil and perhaps the ...
Memories of Struggle in the MST
I have some very good memories of the activities of the movement. I also have some painful ones. Among the ...
Brazil’s Landless Hold Their Ground
Over the past few decades, there have been various forms of popular protest in Latin America against the austerity measures ...
Agrarian Reform- Hope Turns to Terror
The popular and peasant organizations of El Salvador have always advocated land reform. Increasingly, over the past 20 years, the ...
Breaking New Ground: Brazil’s MST
The social struggles of Brazil's landless agricultural workers and small producers over the past two decades have developed in the ...
