wogan event: Wanusa Pereira dos Santos, a 25 year old MST leader will
speak about one of the most exciting and successful social movements of our
time:
THE BRAZILIAN LANDLESS WORKERS MOVEMENT!!
Movimento dos Trablahadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST). THIS MONDAY, APRIL 29TH
7PM
CLARK UNIVERSITY, LURIE CONFERENCE ROOM (in the University Center)
get ready for extended quote:
“The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) is the largest social movement
in Latin America (1.5 million members!) and one of the most successful
grassroots movements in the world. Hundreds of thousands of landless
peasants have taken onto themselves the task of carrying out a long overdue
land reform in a country mired by social and economic inequality.“The Landless Workers Movement is a reqponse to these inequalities. Today,
more than 250,000 families have won land titles to over 15 million acres
after MST land takeovers.“The success of the MST lies in its ability to organize. Its members have
not only managed to secure land, thereby guaranteeing food security for
their families, but have come up with an alternative scoio-economic
development model that puts people before profits. This is transforming the
face of Brazil’s countryside and Brazilian politics at large.“Following a showing of *Strong Roots*, a short, award-winning documentary
about the MST’s struggle, Wanusa Pereira dos Santos, a 25-year-old MST
leader, will speak about the movement that has inspired poor people’s
movements around the world with its alternatives to corporate globalization
and model for sustainable development.”
been listening a lot to the band “of montreal”, whose album “the gay parade” is like foncy queen stuff plus sgt peppersish loopy 1890s psychedelia times sad. today i walked all over town. monday, due to an odd stroke of (for lack of a better term) luck, i begin work as a foreman at a clock factory.
