
Mobilizing People Power Beyond Elections in Brazil
For an MST activist, a win for Lula in the upcoming runoff vote against Bolsonaro is only one step in ...

Famílias Sem Terra Resistem no Norte do Brasil
Para uma ocupação do MST, o ataque acelerado à Amazônia sob o governo Bolsonaro intensificou a constante ameaça de desapropriação ...

April 17: Brazil’s National Day of Struggle for Agrarian Reform
On April 17, 1996, close to 1500 rural landless workers began a march to the Pará state capital of Belém, ...

World Bank Takes Aim at Brazil’s Landless Movement
This is Brazil, but it isn't Carnaval. There are no sequins or bright feathers here in Rio Novo. Instead, a ...

Brazils Landless Hold Their Ground
Over the past few decades, there have been various forms of popular protest in Latin America against the austerity measures ...

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
Brazils Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) is widely regarded as one of the worlds most dynamic mass movements. In the ...