Solidarity Economy in Latin America/Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra
Location (country, city or region): Brazil
Website or Social Media links: https://mst.org.br/
Journalistic Resources:
- Brazil’s Landless Workers Rise Up (Dissent Magazine 2016)
- In and Against the Brazilian State (Jacobin Magazine 2020)
- The Landless Workers Movement’s fight for popular agrarian reform through land occupation in Brazil (Progressive International 2021)
- Activist farmers in Brazil feed the hungry and aid the sick as president downplays coronavirus crisis (The Conversation 2021)
Academic Resources:
- Carter, M. (2010). The landless rural workers movement and democracy in Brazil. Latin American Research Review, 186-217.
- De Almeida, L. F., Sánchez, F. R., & Hallewell, L. (2000). The landless workers' movement and social struggles against neoliberalism. Latin American Perspectives, 27(5), 11-32.
- Garmany, J. (2008). The spaces of social movements: O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra from a socio-spatial perspective. Space and Polity, 12(3), 311-328.
- Tarlau, R. (2019). Occupying schools, occupying land: How the landless workers movement transformed Brazilian education. Global and Comparative Ethnogr.
Details of the Work
[edit | edit source]Goals or Focus
[edit | edit source]MST defines its goals as access to the land for poor workers through land reform in Brazil and activism around social issues that make land ownership more difficult to achieve, such as unequal income distribution, racism, sexism, and media monopolies[1]. MST strives to achieve a self-sustainable way of life for the rural poor[2].
Partnerships
[edit | edit source]Values
[edit | edit source]Equity
Solidarity
Sustainability
Democracy
General Categories
[edit | edit source]Land and income distribution, education, self-sufficiency
Timeframe
[edit | edit source]Officially founded in January 1984
Other sources
[edit | edit source]Landless Workers' Movement Wikipedia
- ↑ "Quem Somos". MST (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-02-24.
- ↑ James, Deborah (2007). Gaining Ground? Rights and Property in South African Land Reform. New York, New York: Routledge Cavendish. pp. 148–149. ISBN 978-0-415-42031-0.