Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by HOELLE Jeffrey, RICHARDS Peter
Brazil’s thriving soy industry threatens its forests and global climate targets Brazil’s economy is teetering on the edge of collapse. The country’s political regime has been rocked by recent corruption scandals , and impeachment proceedings are encircling the nation’s leaders. And yet things (...)
, by TANURO Daniel
After the arrest of Saleh Abdeslam on March 18, or his suspected involvement in the attacks in Paris in 2015, the Belgian authorities were crowing about their victory. "We’ve got him!” A few days later the Daesh criminals struck in the heart of Brussels and in Zaventem at Brussels airport. (...)
, by MST (Brazil)
Opening of the 6th Congress recalls 30 years of MST’s history
VIth MST Congress - 10 to 14 of February, 2014
(February 10) This is a history that is too large to fit in a book, unless this book could be as large as actors who know how to make history. The pages of this book are huge, and were (...)
, par War on Want
A leader of the Brazilian landless movement MST was shot dead by gunmen last Saturday in the north-east of the Rio de Janeiro State. Cícero Guedes dos Santos, father of five children, fought with landless peasant families to have an equitable redistribution of land and sustainable agricultural (...)
, par CLOC-Via Campesina, La Via Campesina
(Santiago, 28 January 2013). Within the framework of the People’s summit in January 2013, we, the delegates of CLOC VC, express our heartfelt regret and indignation following the murder of the director of MST Brazil and Coordinator of the Luiz Maranhão encampment at the industrial park in Usina (...)
, by COUTINHO Júnior José
More than 200 people from various social movements, political parties and NGOs gathered this past Sunday (12/9), at the National School Florestan Fernandes (ENFF) for the Meeting of Friends and Friends of the MST. João Pedro Stedile, MST leader, began the meeting with an analysis of the forces (...)
, by HORTA Celso, STEDILE João Pedro
Founder and coordinator of the MST estimates that the moment is the ebb of the popular movement.
For more than 30 years in the struggle of landless rural workers, João Pedro Stédile, a gaucho of Italian descent, became known for the direct way he manifested his political opinions. In this (...)
, by COUTINHO Júnior José, MAURO Gilmar
The Milton Santos settlement, where 68 people live on 100 hectares in the town of Americana in the region of Campinas in the interior of Sao Paulo state, is at risk of being wiped out.
Despite the fact that it’s existed for seven years and has produced food for the towns of Americana and (...)
, by COUTINHO Júnior José, Dos SANTOS Marina
Agrarian Reform came to a stop in 2012 and there were few investments by the government in production, in family farmers and in the settlements.
Because of this, there is a new narrative that ¨now we need to develop the already existing settlements and not expropriate more lands.¨
In that way (...)
, by MST (Brazil)
Friends abroad and representatives from civil society organizations, MST is suffering an offensive launched by conservative forces in Rio Grande do Sul state.
Not only do they want to impede the land division, as determined by the Federal Constitution, but they intend to criminalize those who (...)
, by La Via Campesina
We express our solidarity with the women of Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil in their action against green deserts.
On March 4th, around 900 women of Via Campesina Rio Grande do Sul occupied the 2.100 hectares “Fazenda Tarumã” in Rosário do Sul. The women cut the eucalyptus and planted native trees in a (...)
, by RIBEIRO Sylvia
Last October 21st, an armed militia under contract to the GM seeds multinational Syngenta invaded the Terra Livre camp in Paraná in Brazil, killing with two shots from point blank range a 34 year-old activist of the Landless Workers Movement (MST), Valmir Mota de Oliveira, known as Keno, a (...)
, by La Via Campesina
For background, see on ESSF: Brazil: Attack of Syngenta’s armed militia results in deaths and woundeds
To: Organisations of Via Campesina, allies and friends
From: The International Coordinating Committee of Via Campesina (CCI)
In response to the events of the past 21st of October, where (...)
, by La Via Campesina
During an attack of an armed militia with around 40 gunmen to the peasant’s camp at the experimental field trial of Syngenta Seeds multinational, at Santa Teresa do Oeste, at 13:30 of today (October 21st), a Via Campesina member, Valmir Motta, 32 years old, father of 3 children, was executed (...)
, by ZIBECHI Raúl
Brazil is staking its claim as a great emerging power thanks to the leadership it maintains in biofuel production. The price of this ambition is paid by the environment and by the cane cutters, who are the invisible characters in this story.
“When the airplane passed, pouring out that bath of (...)
, by MST (Brazil)
We, 17,500 Landless rural workers from 24 states in Brazil, 181 international delegates representing 21 peasant organizations from and friends from several movements and organizations, met in Brazilia from June 10th to 15th, 2007, for the 5th MST National Congress too discuss and analyze the (...)
, by FASE
Table of Contents:
I. Introduction: FASE against the challenges of a new era of exploitation of the Amazon 1.1. The historical legitimacy of FASE and their partners 1.2. The worsening dispute over the destiny of the Amazon
II. The political reason for the debate Planetary solidarity
III. (...)
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