'Landless' activists in Brazil kick corporate ass

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Several hundred peasant activists have occupied a research farm in southern Brazil owned by a Swiss multinational biotechnology company.

The Landless Movement says the move is part of a new strategy to target multinational agribusiness, which it accuses of pushing farmers off land.

It also says such companies are destroying the environment.

The Landless Movement has also occupied dozens of farms and cattle ranches to press for land reform.

The Landless Movement is Brazil's closest thing to a guerilla. They're kind of liberal, but pretty big and as you can see, they take action. Their demand is only land reform, kind of like Zapatistas.

I really what they did though. Beautiful.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4811670.stm

[Knowledge 6 6 6]

The MST in Brazil is anything but liberal. They are strictly Marxists whose goals are eventually for Brazil to become a socialist state. Also, their aims aren't only land-reform. It is also for equal political representation. The movement is highly successful; it's created institutions (particularly educational ones) which provide their people places to learn and become more informed. Children are taught about cultural rituals as well as learning the basics early in their academic life. They even have set up their own university.

To say they're liberal and are only fighting for agrarian reform is doing the Movement an injustice. I suggest you read up more about them before making such claims.

[bolshevik butcher]

Fantastic. Similar events in Venezuela have resulted in a long struggle with land owners. Unity with the peasants of Brazil. Do they have arms?

[Knowledge 6 6 6]

No, they use peaceful means to obtain their goals. There have been clashes with private security and police before, but they are within their constitutional rights...so abuse done towards them reflects more on the police then the movement. This is why the Brazilian government have always listened to their demands and given back so much land to them.