Acting on Faith
IT'S BEEN HAPPENING NOW EVERY COUPLE of months. Hundreds of poor city-dwellers descend on the center of Sdo Paulo in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
