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This Thursday @ CineClub:
The land is for the people

Landless farmers in Brazil

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MST: Landless farmers and the biggest march in brazilian history
For 17 days, 12,000 members of the Movimento sem Terra, the Brazilian landless movement, rose before dawn and hit the motorway, creating a red column stretching four kilometers as they bore down on the capital Brasília in their bid for land reform…
TALKS
Alex Kawakami, representative of the MST
The Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST, Landless Workers Movement), is the largest social movement in Latin America, with an estimated 1.5 million landless members organized in 23 out of 27 states. The MST carries out long-overdue land reform in a country mined by unjust land distribution.
Prof. Else Vieira, Queen Mary School of Languages, Linguistics and Film (University of London)
She will engage in dialogue with the flm by showing a relevant part of a database she made about the MST: “The Sights and Voices of Dispossession: The Fight for the Land and the Emerging Culture of the MST”.
This session will be presented by Anu Kuusisto, representative of MST’s partner charity War On Want.



MST: landless farmers and the biggest march in brazilian history
Gibby Zobel / Brazil, UK / 2008 / 69 min. / English, Portuguese with
English subtitles / Documentary


Thursday 25th February 2010
6:30pm
Free (Donations welcomed!)

at Latin American House
10 Kingsgate Place
London NW6 4TA
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