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Dear friend of the MST,
In this special edition we would like to share with you the struggle of Via Campesina against the transnational company Syngenta Seeds, of Switzerland, and denounce the number of crimes which this company has committed against humanity in the Brazilian territory:
1. SUMMARY EXECUTION CRIMES AGAINST THE...
Dear Friends of the MST, On October 21 at 1:30 p.m., a Via Campesina encampment located at Syngenta’s 127-hectare farm used for field trials of genetically modified crops in Santa Tereza do Oeste, in Paraná, Brazil, was attacked by an armed militia. During the brutal attack, a leader and activist from the Movement of Landless Workers (MST) and...
by Isabella Kenfield and Roger Burbach In the Brazilian state of Paraná, Valmir Mota de Oliveira of Via Campesina, an international peasant organization, was shot twice in the chest at point blank range by armed gunmen on an experimental farm of Syngenta Seeds, a multinational agribusiness corporation. The cold blooded murder took place on...
MST's Valmir Mota de Oliveira, aka "Keno"...
*PRESS RELEASE from VIA CAMPESINA*
*Armed Militia Attacks Via Campesina Encampment and Kills Activist*
*There were no hostages at the site, to the contrary of reports by the Globo News Network.*
Yesterday (October 21), at 1:30 p.m., a Via Campesina encampment located at Syngenta’s experimental GMO farm in Santa Tereza...
PRESS RELEASE from VIA CAMPESINA Armed Militia Attacks Via Campesina Encampment and Kills Activist There were no hostages at the site, to the contrary of reports by the Globo News Network. Yesterday (October 21), at 1:30 p.m., a Via Campesina encampment located at Syngenta’s experimental GMO farm in Santa Tereza do Oeste (Paraná), was...
BRASILIA, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Brazil's militant landless peasants invaded tree plantations of Votorantim and Stora Enso paper companies on Tuesday, destroying saplings as part of a protest against multinational agricultural firms. About 100 protesters belonging to the Landless Rural Workers Movement, or MST, raided a plantation belonging to the...
Dear friends of the MST,
Today is the 40th anniversary of the death of the revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara. In countries around the world and especially in Latin America, activists from the left and social movements are carrying out events to commemorate the man who has been transformed into one of the greatest symbols of struggle for...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A group of Brazilian landless peasants threatened on Monday to block a railroad run by mining giant CVRD and halt iron ore shipments from Carajas area in a protest to demand the company's renationalization. The radical leftist Landless Workers' Movement also said 3.6 million people voted for the return of CVRD...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A group of Brazilian landless peasants threatened on Monday to block a railroad run by mining giant CVRD and halt iron ore shipments from Carajas area in a protest to demand the company's renationalization.
The radical leftist Landless Workers' Movement also said 3.6 million people voted for the return...