The Rural Landless Workers Movement of Brazil

Landless worker movement in rural Brazil MST, or Trai's movement movement Rurais Sem Terra (Rural Workforce) is South America's largest social movement with about 5 million supporters (Epstein 2) . Under the slogan "Ocupar, Resistir, Produzir" ("Occupation, boycotting, production"), MST utilized the dissatisfaction of non-violent citizens, accelerated land reform and reduced the gap between rich and poor. The goal of MST is to provide land to millions of landless farmers who can cultivate and survive on land that is disproportionately unproductive and not fully utilized at first glance.

Today's most remarkable non-governmental organization (NGO) in Brazil is Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), or landless rural workers movement. Currently there are about 500,000 members, and after the federal government has slowly implemented the promised land reform plan, it began to organize the occupation of large scale nonproductive manner in the mid-1980s. A group of vehicles invaded property at night, so too many people occupied the land before dawn, police could drive them out. Since the mid-1990s the occupancy of this land expanded and the sympathy of Brazilian media for MST strengthened support for the cause of justice.

I think it is interesting to emphasize that I participate in the rural workers movement with no land so as to further clarify the public places where I speak mainly. MST is a social movement in Brazil, generally considered to be one of the biggest social movements in Latin America, estimated to have 5 million members, organized in 23 out of 26 Brazilian provinces It is. Its purpose is to actively seek to acquire the rights of rural poor through land reform in Brazil and through social problems surrounding land ownership and land use rights such as income disparity, racial discrimination, gender discrimination, media monopoly is. In short, MST promises a social contract to provide a sustainable lifestyle to the poor in rural areas.