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Brazilian Left’s Free Lula Campaign Highlights Miscarriage of Justice
phillynews215 12/01/2023 22 Comments on Brazilian Left’s Free Lula Campaign Highlights Miscarriage of Justice
Left forces met in Sao Paulo to relaunch the Free Lula campaign. Members of grassroots movements and political parties were there, saying that Workers Party leader Lula da Silva was unjustly imprisoned Visit https://therealnews.com for…
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Life inside an MST landless workers’ settlement in Brazil
phillynews215 10/27/2023
For nearly 40 years, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) has been fighting the concentration of landownership among the country’s elite through the direct occupation and settlement of fallow lands. TRNN contributor Michael Fox reports from…
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How Brazil’s MST fights for agrarian reform while battling hunger
phillynews215 10/27/2023
Hunger skyrocketed in Brazil during the tenure of former president Jair Bolsonaro. 33 million Brazilians, some 15% of the entire country, are now food insecure according to official statistics. As Brazil’s poorest were abandoned to…