Occupying the Land to Feed the Country: The 40-year Fight of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement:
Rania Khalek- "The exploitation of land is not just a problem in Brazil or Latin America, it's all over the world- that’s why our struggle in the @MST_Oficial is international."
January marked the 40th anniversary of the longest-running peasant movement in Brazil’s history and one of the largest in Latin America: the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST). Starting as a group of rural farmers fighting for agrarian reforms against land dispossession, the MST has transformed over four decades into a mass workers movement that mobilizes against the fascist political forces in Brazil while defending the country’s food system and small farmers from predatory agribusiness.
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