Brazilian Workers Resume Rally for Land Reform

[struggle4progress]

Brasilia, May 6 (Prensa Latina) Brazil´s Landless Workers Movement (MST) will resume a rally including thousands of Brazilian rural workers who will take a 180-mile journey in the ´National March for Land Reform´.

The protesters began the march in Goiânia on May 2 and planned to converge in Brasilia to deliver a message to the public and the government Workers Party.

Land reform represents a critical issue for Brazil´s development of social equality, food security and a vital civil society.

The rally will be the continuation of a battle started early April, when the struggle for land reform had reached its highest expression in the seizure of 30 farms in Pernambuco state and other actions in different Brazilian regions. <snip>

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B9C09D04A-5CB7-43C1-A13E-517DA92DBA8F%7D&language=EN

[dcfirefighter]

1. Good luck to them

I hope they realize that taking land from a few rich landlords, and giving it to a bunch of poor landlords will result in the same problem, 20 years down the road, when the next generation of landless workers don't have any big evil corporations to take land from.

The trick, is, that no one can really own land, since no one created it. It can only be rented from the rest of the people.

If they figure this out, and are successful, this next century really will be a Latin century.

[aneerkoinos]

2. Ownership of land

AFAIK the Brazilian movement has figured this out and has allways been against land ownership. They occupy unused land and wait few years (learning to live together plus farming skills, enviromental protection etc.) whilet the (often corrupt) buraucracy wheels it's wheels to make contract with the state.