Solidarity Economy in Latin America/Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto (MTST)

Location (country, city or region): Brazil

Website or Social Media links: https://mtst.org

Journalistic Resources:

• Homeless movement occupies São Paulo stock market building - The Brazilian Report
• Bolsonaro Is Criminalizing the Brazilian Left - Jacobin Magazine
• A Conversation With Guilherme Boulos, Leader of Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement - The Nation

Academic Resources:

• Networks of Solidarity in Favelas and Peripheries in the Context of COVID-19 (Portuguese)
• Training in Action?: A Study on the Collective Practices of Members of the MTST (Portuguese)
• The MTST Politics of Social Rights: Counter-Conducts, Acts of Citizenship and a Radical Struggle Beyond Housing
• Grassroots activist video documentary in Brazil and the construction of new cultural identities: the case of the Homeless Workers Movement

Details of the Work

Goals or Focus

"Fighting for respect for the constitutional right of housing."

Partnerships

Resistência Urbana – http://www.resistenciaurbana.org/

Periferia Ativa – http://www.periferiaativa.org/

Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra – MST – http://www.mst.org.br/

Movimento Passe Livre – MPL – http://www.mpl.org.br/

Uneafro – http://www.uneafrobrasil.org/

Circulo Palmarino – http://www.circulopalmarino.org.br/

Movimento dos Sem Teto da Bahia – MSTB

Terra Livre – Movimento popular do campo e da cidade – http://terralivre.org/

Quilombo Urbano – Movimento de Hip Hop organizado do Maranhão – http://quilombourbano.blogspot.com.br/

Brigadas Populares – http://brigadaspopulares.org.br/

Pastoral Operária – http://www.pastoraloperaria.org.br

Fábricas OcupadasTribunal Popular – http://www.fabricasocupadas.org.br

Observatorio das Violências Policiais – SP – http://www.ovp-sp.org/

Centro de Mídia Independente – http://www.midiaindependente.org/

Agência Carta Maior – http://www.cartamaior.com.br/

Revista Caros Amigos – http://www.carosamigos.com.br/

Brasil de Fato – http://www.brasildefato.com.br/

Correio da Cidadania – http://www.correiocidadania.com.br/

Rojo y negro – http://www.rojoynegro.info/

CGT Espanha – http://cgt.org.es/

FENASPS – http://www.fenasps.org.br/

Blog da Raquel Rolnik – https://raquelrolnik.wordpress.com/

Sindicatos de trabalhadores do Judiciário Federal no Estado de São Paulo- http://www.sintrajud.org.br/

Rádio Cirandeira – https://radiocirandeira.wordpress.com/

Fogoneros – http://www.fogoneros.org/

Fórum Popular de Saúde do Estado de São Paulo – http://www.forumpopulardesaude.com.br/

Movimento Popular por Moradia – Curitiba – https://mpmcuritiba.wordpress.com/

RUA Juventude antiCapitalista – http://www.movimentorua.org/

Juntos – http://juntos.org.br/

Values

Suitable housing for all

Fair housing practices

Inclusivity

Social justice

General Categories

"Solidarity network" (rede da solidariedade)

Timeframe

Founded in 1997