December, 2005

• The Landless Workers Movement (MST)

  

  December 20, 2005  1,122 views 0 Comments Share

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  Brazil's Landless Workers Movement, or in Portuguese Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), is the largest social movement in Latin America with an estimated 1.5 million landless members organized in 23 out 27 states. The MST carries out long-overdue land reform in a country mired by unjust land distribution. In Brazil, less than 3% [...]

  Filed Under Brazil • Indigenous Peoples • movements

• Colombian police back off as Indians grab land

  

  December 19, 2005  1,448 views 0 Comments Share

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  CALOTO, Colombia (Reuters) - The Colombian police, hardened in combat against Marxist rebels, have given up trying to throw a determined group of Nasa Indians off farms they grabbed nearly two months ago in a drive for land rights. Long ignored by government and targeted by both far-right paramilitary outlaws and Marxist rebels, Indians in [...]

  Filed Under accountability • Colombia • Indigenous Peoples