The leader of the Movement of Landless Workers announces protests and invasions throughout Brazil

The leader of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST), João Pedro Stédile, announced a series of invasions by the group this month.

The MST has begun the “National Journey of Struggles in Defense of Agrarian Reform.”

“Our movement will hold many demonstrations in defense of agrarian reform,” he said in a video on Twitter on Friday 7.

“There will be mobilizations in all the states: marches, vigils, land occupations, and the thousand and one ways to press for the law and the Constitution to be applied and for unproductive land to be disappropriated and given to camped families.”

According to the MST, this year, the slogan of the April Struggles campaign is: “Against hunger and slavery: for land, democracy, and the environment.”

In addition to land invasions, the MST plans to launch a “food donation” campaign, tree planting, and street activities to denounce the agribusiness production model, which the movement condemns.

The “April of Struggles” is a way for the MST to remember the case Eldorado do Carajás when 19 landless people were killed by military police from Pará, on April 17, 1996, after a conflict.

With information from Revista Oeste