Category: LAND REFORM

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AGRARIAN REFORM DEMOCRACY EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT LAND REFORM SOCIAL NETWORKS

A Space for Rebels: MST’s Florestan Fernandes School

A look into the Landless Rural Workers Movement’s autonomous,  international political formation school. By Maria Gorete Sousa* ENFF (Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes/Florestan Fernandes School), was born out of a decision made by the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (Movimento de Trabalhadores Sem Terra/MST) to create a political education system for activists from the cities and the […]

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AUTHORITARIANISM LAND REFORM SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

The Pau D’arco Massacre: A History of Impunity, Persecution and Death

By Nathalia Urban On May 24, 2017, nine men and one woman were shot dead by civilian and military police in a camp of landless rural workers located on the Santa Lúcia farm, in the Pará municipality of Pau D’Arco.  The police claimed that the workers had an arsenal of weapons.  During the investigations, forensics […]