In the four decades since its founding, the MST has achieved significant milestones: 450,000 families have gained legal tenure of their land, another 65,000 are organized in squatters encampments, fighting for legal recognition of land.
Landless Rural Workers' Movement
People's Dispatch
The Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil had six candidates win state and federal office in the Brazilian elections on October 2. (The presidential race its headed for a run-off).
Building on the concept of the "Long March Through the Institutions," Brazil's landless workers movement, continuing to organize after 40 years of struggle, offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.
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