4 November 2016
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Solidarity with the MST in Brazil
The National School Florestan Fernandes in Guararema, São Paulo, is the political school for the MST – the Landless Workers’ Movement in Brazil. Our comrades have had the honour of studying and teaching there. We have just received the statement below from the MST. We currently have two comrades at the school.
We are in full solidarity with the MST and all the comrades at the school. Continue reading
Organizations publish a statement denouncing the jailing of MST activists
Struggling for land is an exercise in citizenship
On the afternoon of May 31, one of the national leaders of the Landless Workers Movement (MST), operating in Goias, Jose Valdir Misnerovicz, was arrested in Rio Grande do Sul, in a joint operation of the Civil Police of the states of Goiás and Rio Grande do Sul. Two vehicles of Goiás Civil Police were in Rio Grande do Sul and were transferring Valdir to Goiás. Continue reading