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By José Pedro Martins
To continue "the struggle for land and territory, the struggle against large rural estates and agribusiness, and to inc...
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Offering an account of the movement's development over time during changing political circumstances, Ondetti uses the movement as a case study to test four varieties of social-movement theory.
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The surprise conies because AC has enjoyed massive state support since its founding in me Aracruz region of Espfrito Santo in 1972 as part of the military dictatorship's national economic development plan, which centered on agro-industrial production for export. WITH THE SUPPORT OF CIVIL society organizations and rural social movements like the Movement of the Landless Rural Workers (MST), President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva was elected in 2002 on a platform that included agrarian reform, a crucial issue in Brazil, the country with the world's most unequal land distribution-1.6% of landowners control almost half the country's arable land, and 3% of the population owns two thirds of it.2 Lula decried this in a 2000 interview with the magazine Cams amigos.
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... struggle for human rights in general, agrarian reform, and the rights of indigenous peoples in pa...
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Mexico: Beheaded
TIJUANA -- The severed heads of six state police investigators were found on a public plaza Wednesday in the northern Mexican state of Durango.
... nearly five months since the presidents of Brazil and Paraguay agreed on a breakthrough deal to trip... Fernando Lugo wants to spend on agrarian reform to benefit 300,000 landless peasant familie...
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Unlike the U.S.'s corn-based ethanol industry, Brazil's cane-based system makes money without subsidies - but this accounting overlooks the unmeasured costs of environmental devastation and labor exploitation (or the fossil fuel used in its production and, in the case of export, transportation). According to Fon, "The person convicted of ordering the murder is free pending a fourth trial in the case while the rancher suspected of actually orchestrating the plot has yet to be tried.
... manage to settle more families through agrarian reform than his neoliberal predecessor. What's mor...
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Feb. 13, 2005
BELEM, Brazil -- Hours before the body of Sister Dorothy Stang arrives in the state capital of Para, supporters line the streets outside the morgue, carrying banners that proclaim, simply, "Justica.
... killed because of this struggle for agrarian reform," Depweg says. Strongly worded promises com...
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Two people slammed metal farm tools into the lock, forcing it open. Marchers poured into the plantation, chanting "MST, MST!" as fireworks rocketed off in the distance. "Agrarian reform! MST! We will succeed!
We marched last year, which was really hard, and lasted 60-plus days," says Raquel, who like most MST members declined to giver her last name. She settled with her husband and 4-monfhold baby in Itaguaçu, São [Gabriel], in December. "Now we're going to stay here in São Gabriel," she says.
"But I'll tell you, it's worth it," says Çigana, a mother of 11, who participated in the march to [Alfredo Southall] and who also received a couple dozen acres of land in Itaguaçu in December. "Here in the movement we have peace, we have harmony, we have union. Life outside is only drug traffick...
SÃO GABRIEL, BRAZIL-THE THREE-DAY, 30-mile march stopped before the ma...
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... it will increase federal funding for Brazil's sugar-based ethanol industry by almost $6 billio..., environmental degradation, and agrarian conflicts will be exacerbated. . A recent declarat... a well-articulated and organized agrarian reform movement of the rural poor. This has created a smo...