MST WOMEN OCCUPY HIGHWAY FOR THE RIGHT TO GROW FOOD 🥕👊🏽
🇧🇷Yesterday, March 13, as part of a national day of action, more than 250 women from rural communities in the states of Maranhão, Pará and Tocantins occupied a stretch of the BR-010 highway, the access road to one of agribusiness giant Suzano's largest pulp and paper mills in the country and a strategic region for agribusiness to denounce the advance of eucalyptus crop, violence against rural workers, aerial spraying of pesticides and soil and water contamination.
According to the MST, the company has been threatening rural workers and prohibiting the planting of food on agrarian reform territories, with practices of intimidation, threats of legal prosecution, the use of physical violence, and the dumping of poison on plantations.
"They come into our shacks with the support of private security guards, take our harvest, forbid us to plant and threaten to dump poison with drones. We could plant all this land here, but now it's all eucalyptus,” says one of the farmers from the south of Maranhão.
The leadership of the MST, at the National Day of Women's Struggles across the country, points to the history of legal complaints against Suzano and calls the attention of regional and federal bodies.
"Society has noticed the rise in food prices, but we need to question the reasons for this increase. Among them are the lack of areas to grow food and also the poisoning of our territories, our soil and our water. Suzano is one of these companies that has had an impact on family farming, with the advance of eucalyptus on what used to be productive land and the spraying of pesticides,” explains Divina Lopes, from the MST leadership in Maranhão.
Video from MST-Amazônica
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🇧🇷Yesterday, March 13, as part of a national day of action, more than 250 women from rural communities in the states of Maranhão, Pará and Tocantins occupied a stretch of the BR-010 highway, the access road to one of agribusiness giant Suzano's largest pulp and paper mills in the country and a strategic region for agribusiness to denounce the advance of eucalyptus crop, violence against rural workers, aerial spraying of pesticides and soil and water contamination.
According to the MST, the company has been threatening rural workers and prohibiting the planting of food on agrarian reform territories, with practices of intimidation, threats of legal prosecution, the use of physical violence, and the dumping of poison on plantations.
"They come into our shacks with the support of private security guards, take our harvest, forbid us to plant and threaten to dump poison with drones. We could plant all this land here, but now it's all eucalyptus,” says one of the farmers from the south of Maranhão.
The leadership of the MST, at the National Day of Women's Struggles across the country, points to the history of legal complaints against Suzano and calls the attention of regional and federal bodies.
"Society has noticed the rise in food prices, but we need to question the reasons for this increase. Among them are the lack of areas to grow food and also the poisoning of our territories, our soil and our water. Suzano is one of these companies that has had an impact on family farming, with the advance of eucalyptus on what used to be productive land and the spraying of pesticides,” explains Divina Lopes, from the MST leadership in Maranhão.
Video from MST-Amazônica
https://youtube.com/shorts/YN1IQOHOpHA?feature=share
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MST WOMEN OCCUPY HIGHWAY FOR THE RIGHT TO GROW FOOD
MST WOMEN OCCUPY HIGHWAY FOR THE RIGHT TO GROW FOOD 🥕👊🏽🇧🇷Yesterday, March 13, as part of a national day of action, more than 250 women from rural commun...
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#PeoplesHistory | Today marks the death anniversary of Karl Marx, the revolutionary German philosopher whose analysis of capitalism laid the foundations for the modern socialist movement. 🚩
Marx’s scientific theory of historical dialectical materialism provided a powerful framework to understand the evolution of human societies. His numerous essays, books, and newspaper articles exposed the fundamental nature of capitalism as a system that inevitably leads to the exploitation of the working class. 📚⚒️
By lifting the veil on the material conditions and social relations underpinning capitalist society, as well as the deep contradictions it generates, Marx demonstrated the historical necessity of overthrowing bourgeois rule to achieve true emancipation. His clarion call—“Workers of the world, unite!”—still resonates today as a rallying cry for justice and equality.
Marx’s scientific theory of historical dialectical materialism provided a powerful framework to understand the evolution of human societies. His numerous essays, books, and newspaper articles exposed the fundamental nature of capitalism as a system that inevitably leads to the exploitation of the working class. 📚⚒️
By lifting the veil on the material conditions and social relations underpinning capitalist society, as well as the deep contradictions it generates, Marx demonstrated the historical necessity of overthrowing bourgeois rule to achieve true emancipation. His clarion call—“Workers of the world, unite!”—still resonates today as a rallying cry for justice and equality.
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🚨 Columbia sanctions students and violates labor rights under pressure from Trump
The administration of Columbia University has given in to Trump’s demands and sanctioned 22 students for pro-Palestine protests. It also has fired the graduate student union president and canceled contract negotiations with the union.
Peoples Dispatch reported from yesterday’s rally of unionized graduate students on Columbia’s campus, where UAW Local 2710 workers denounced this violation of their labor rights.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHOSdaXsjbE/
The administration of Columbia University has given in to Trump’s demands and sanctioned 22 students for pro-Palestine protests. It also has fired the graduate student union president and canceled contract negotiations with the union.
Peoples Dispatch reported from yesterday’s rally of unionized graduate students on Columbia’s campus, where UAW Local 2710 workers denounced this violation of their labor rights.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHOSdaXsjbE/
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Big Pharma keeps pushing for weaker pollution standards despite proven risks to human and environmental health.
📲 Read the full article by Jan Wintgens on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/15/is-big-pharmas-pollution-deregulation-campaign-fueling-the-next-pandemic/
📲 Read the full article by Jan Wintgens on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/15/is-big-pharmas-pollution-deregulation-campaign-fueling-the-next-pandemic/
Peoples Dispatch
Is Big Pharma’s pollution deregulation campaign fueling the next pandemic?
Big Pharma keeps pushing for weaker pollution standards despite proven risks to human and environmental health
#PeoplesHistory | Today we honor the memory of US activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by Israeli Occupation Forces in 2003.
In 2003, during the Second Intifada, Corrie was demonstrating against Israeli Occupation Forces' destruction of homes in Rafah. While protesting the demolition of local homes, she was struck and killed by an Israeli soldier operating a Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer. The soldier responsible was never brought to justice despite the efforts of Corrie's family and human rights organizations.
In 2003, during the Second Intifada, Corrie was demonstrating against Israeli Occupation Forces' destruction of homes in Rafah. While protesting the demolition of local homes, she was struck and killed by an Israeli soldier operating a Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer. The soldier responsible was never brought to justice despite the efforts of Corrie's family and human rights organizations.
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🇵🇸 "Release Mahmoud right now!"
Expelled Columbia student and President of UAW Local 2710, Grant Miner, spoke to us about how students and workers are fighting back against Columbia's attacks on students and pro-Palestine activism on campus.
Protests continue in cities across the United States calling for the immediate release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil and an end to the Trump administration's violation of the right to free speech and an end to the persecution of immigrant students.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHRw77CPE6O/?igsh=eDI1OHY3Mzl3eGQ1
Expelled Columbia student and President of UAW Local 2710, Grant Miner, spoke to us about how students and workers are fighting back against Columbia's attacks on students and pro-Palestine activism on campus.
Protests continue in cities across the United States calling for the immediate release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil and an end to the Trump administration's violation of the right to free speech and an end to the persecution of immigrant students.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHRw77CPE6O/?igsh=eDI1OHY3Mzl3eGQ1
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🚨Israel’s siege in the West Bank continues, displacing thousands and demolishing homes as part of a systematic campaign to erase Palestinian rights. Amid global silence, ethnic cleansing persists.
#WestBank #FreePalestine #HumanRights
🕊️✊ Read more:
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/16/israels-siege-continues-across-the-west-bank/
#WestBank #FreePalestine #HumanRights
🕊️✊ Read more:
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/16/israels-siege-continues-across-the-west-bank/
Peoples Dispatch
Israel’s siege continues across the West Bank
Israel’s large-scale displacement and demolition campaign is seen as part of its plans to liquidate the Palestinian right of return.
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"The US, in its supreme stupidity, torpedoed the peace negotiations [in Ukraine]."
Economist Jeffrey Sachs in dialogue with Vijay Prashad about the war in Ukraine and the US role in working against peace. Watch this clip from the No Cold War series “Perspectives” about the direction of US foreign policy since the fall of the Soviet Union.
#Ukraine #Peace
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHTmxm2AT4e/
Economist Jeffrey Sachs in dialogue with Vijay Prashad about the war in Ukraine and the US role in working against peace. Watch this clip from the No Cold War series “Perspectives” about the direction of US foreign policy since the fall of the Soviet Union.
#Ukraine #Peace
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHTmxm2AT4e/
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🚨 Over 30,000 workers in Karnataka mobilized for a historic 5-day protest against anti-labor policies, demanding fair wages, job security, and an end to corporate exploitation.
✊ Their fight is for dignity, justice, and a future free from inequality.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/tens-of-thousands-of-workers-in-karnataka-mobilize-in-historic-five-day-protest-against-anti-labor-policies/
✊ Their fight is for dignity, justice, and a future free from inequality.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/tens-of-thousands-of-workers-in-karnataka-mobilize-in-historic-five-day-protest-against-anti-labor-policies/
Peoples Dispatch
Tens of thousands of workers in Karnataka mobilize in historic five-day protest against anti-labor policies
Mobilized from the cross-section of Karnataka’s working class, over 30,000 took part in the demonstration from March 3 to 7, raising 37 demands including a living minimum wage and a wealth tax on the richest 1%.
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Happy St. Patrick's Day to the rebellious and anti-imperialist Irish people!
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🚨 In a shocking move, the Trump administration defied a federal court order and deported 250 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, claiming national security concerns. Critics argue this marks a dangerous escalation in his anti-immigrant crackdown, fueled by unfounded claims and political rhetoric.
📌Key points:
- Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to justify the deportations.
- No evidence has been provided to support claims that the migrants are gang members.
- Activists in Colorado condemn the move as part of a "racist narrative" targeting immigrant communities.
- @pslnational stated: “This is a massive escalation in Trump’s war on immigrants. Only the people can stop this by taking to the streets and showing our opposition.”
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/trump-defies-courts-and-deports-250-venezuelan-migrants-to-el-salvador/
📌Key points:
- Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to justify the deportations.
- No evidence has been provided to support claims that the migrants are gang members.
- Activists in Colorado condemn the move as part of a "racist narrative" targeting immigrant communities.
- @pslnational stated: “This is a massive escalation in Trump’s war on immigrants. Only the people can stop this by taking to the streets and showing our opposition.”
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/trump-defies-courts-and-deports-250-venezuelan-migrants-to-el-salvador/
Peoples Dispatch
Trump defies courts and deports 250 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador
After defying a court order, the Trump administration has dug its heels in defense of the deportation flights
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The mobilization on March 13 was part of the Landless Women’s Day of Struggle, a preparation for the MST’s “Red April”
Read more ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/14/women-of-mst-increase-pressure-on-the-brazilian-government-to-advance-with-land-reform/
Read more ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/14/women-of-mst-increase-pressure-on-the-brazilian-government-to-advance-with-land-reform/
Peoples Dispatch
Women of MST increase pressure on the Brazilian government to advance with land reform
The mobilization on March 13 was part of the Landless Women's Day of Struggle, a preparation for the MST's “Red April”
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According to Ansar Allah, Trump falsely claimed that the aggression was launched to protect American maritime interests, while the movement’s campaign limitedly targeted Israeli vessels over Gaza’s blockade.
Read more ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/ansar-allah-warns-of-escalatory-options-after-us-airstrikes-kill-53-in-yemen/
Read more ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/ansar-allah-warns-of-escalatory-options-after-us-airstrikes-kill-53-in-yemen/
Peoples Dispatch
Ansar Allah warns of “escalatory options” after US airstrikes kill 53 in Yemen
According to Ansar Allah, Trump falsely claimed that the aggression was launched to protect American maritime interests, while the movement's campaign limitedly targeted Israeli vessels over Gaza’s blockade.
🇿🇦✨ A MAJOR VICTORY FOR JUSTICE! #PeoplesVictory
Abahlali baseMjondolo, South Africa’s shack dwellers’ movement, has won a landmark court case blocking the eviction of nearly 1,000 families in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal.
This ruling is a powerful stand against systemic oppression and neo-apartheid.
💡 Key points:
- The court dismissed the eviction application due to legal flaws and lack of urgency.
- The case exposed racist and classist attempts to displace poor Black families.
- Abahlali baseMjondolo continues to fight for land, dignity, and basic services
“This case is because white racists do not want people to live in affluent areas next to them. Our people are called human waste, people who are coming to pollute the area...For us, this is a victory, and we are going back to the drawing table to continue with our struggle for land.”
Thapelo, the Secretary-General of Abahlali baseMjondolo, condemned the racial undertones of the eviction attempt.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/abahlali-basemjondolo-secures-victory-against-forced-evictions/
Abahlali baseMjondolo, South Africa’s shack dwellers’ movement, has won a landmark court case blocking the eviction of nearly 1,000 families in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal.
This ruling is a powerful stand against systemic oppression and neo-apartheid.
💡 Key points:
- The court dismissed the eviction application due to legal flaws and lack of urgency.
- The case exposed racist and classist attempts to displace poor Black families.
- Abahlali baseMjondolo continues to fight for land, dignity, and basic services
“This case is because white racists do not want people to live in affluent areas next to them. Our people are called human waste, people who are coming to pollute the area...For us, this is a victory, and we are going back to the drawing table to continue with our struggle for land.”
Thapelo, the Secretary-General of Abahlali baseMjondolo, condemned the racial undertones of the eviction attempt.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/abahlali-basemjondolo-secures-victory-against-forced-evictions/
Peoples Dispatch
Abahlali baseMjondolo secures victory against forced evictions
A landmark ruling has blocked the eviction of poor residents in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal, marking a major victory for the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement.
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🚨 Israel has resumed its genocidal war on the people of Gaza with the green light of the US government.
Israel’s air strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed over 400 Palestinians so far and injured hundreds.
This act of aggression takes place amid another gross violation of the ceasefire deal with a total blockade of humanitarian aid.
Israel’s air strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed over 400 Palestinians so far and injured hundreds.
This act of aggression takes place amid another gross violation of the ceasefire deal with a total blockade of humanitarian aid.
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