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

Goals or Focus

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. MST strives to achieve a self-sustainable way of life for the rural poor.

Values

Equity

Solidarity

Sustainability

Democracy

General Categories

Land and income distribution, education, self-sufficiency

Timeframe

Officially founded in January 1984

Other sources

Landless Workers' Movement Wikipedia