[van-announce] Joao Pedro Stedile, leader of Brazil's MST in Vancouver

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Joao Pedro Stedile, leader of Brazil's MST in Vancouver

Where:
VPL  Alice MacKay Room

When:
Tuesday, 21st of October 2003 from 7:00 PM until approximately 9:00 PM

Cost: Free

You're invited to hear: 

João Pedro Stédile Leader of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST) 

"The Landless Workers Movement and the Agrarian Question in Contemporary 
Brazil" 

Tuesday, October 21 Alice MacKay Room, Vancouver Public Library, 7:00 PM. 

Over the last two decades, the MST has established a successful model for 
agriculture cooperativism in Brazil and has directly helped to settle half 
a million landless families. Its tactics of land takeovers has brought the 
issue of land reform to the forefront of Latin American agricultural 
policy. These occupations have also led to constant clashes between the 
peasants and landowner-sponsored militias, resulting in numerous deaths 
of peasants as well as the jailing of organizers. 

Stédile is one of the founders of the movement, and has been organising peasants for 
over two decades. He is a remarkable leader and his pivotal role in the 
agrarian reform movement has drawn attention from governments and civil 
society worldwide. 

http://www.mstbrazil.org 

For more information please contact;
Bia Carneiro 
MST Support Committee 
Email: mst-info at sfu.ca 
Phone: 604.802.3676 



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Sponsors: Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID), 
OXFAM Canada,Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace 
(DP), Simon Fraser Student Society, Latin American Studies Student Union 
(SFU), Langara College Student Union, Free the Cuban Five Committee 





For more information:
mst-info at sfu.ca



  



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