Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)

Come learn more about Brazil's Landless Workers’ Movement
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) on Wednesday, November 28 @ 12:00 noon

The MST is the largest social movement in Latin America
with an estimated 1.5 million landless members organized
in 23 out of Brazil's 27 states. The MST uses a variety
of tactics including land occupations, marches, and
protests to carry out land reform in a country mired by
unjust land distribution. The talk will focus on how the
movement has survived and even prospered in the face of
government repression and organizational dilemmas. What kinds of factors have lead to their success and what does this mean for other social movements in around the world?

The speaker, Albert Palma, is a PhD student in UNM’s
Political Science Department focusing on Latin American
social movements and will present findings from recent
research in Brazil.

The talk will be at the Latin American & Iberian Institute, located at 801 Yale NE. Refreshments will be provided.