[E-rundbrief] Info 566 - MST Brazil Congress Message
Matthias Reichl
info at begegnungszentrum.at
Mo Jun 18 20:50:24 CEST 2007
E-Rundbrief - Info 566 - MST/ Movement of
Landless Rural Workers (Brazil): Letter to the
people from the 5th MST National Congress,
Brazilia, 15.6.2007. Agrarian Reform: For Social
Justice and Popular Sovereignty!
Bad Ischl, 18.6.2007
Begegnungszentrum für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit
www.begegnungszentrum.at
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Letter to the people from the 5th MST National Congress.
We, 17,500 Landless rural workers from 24 states
in Brazil, 181 international delegates
representing 21 peasant organizations from and
friends from several movements and organizations,
met in Brazilia from June 10th to 15th, 2007, for
the 5th MST National Congress too discuss and
analyze the problems in our society to find alternative solutions.
We commit to go on helping in the organization of
people, to be able to struggle for their rights
and against inequalities and social injustices. And we commit to the following:
1. To network with all social sectors and their
forms of organization in to build a popular
project to confront neo-liberalism, imperialism
and the structural causes of the problems that affect Brazilian people.
2. To defend our rights against any policy that
tries to remove rights already conquered.
3. To struggle against privatizations of public
patrimony, the transposition of Rio São Francisco
and for the reestatization of public companies that have been privatized.
4. To struggle for all latifundios* to be
expropriated with priority to those owned by foreign capital and banks.
5. To fight against the logging and burning of
native forests for the expansion of latifundios.
6. To fight against transnational corporations
that want to control seeds, Brazilian production
and agricultural trade such as Monsanto,
Syngenta, Cargill, Bungue, ADM, Nestlé, Basf,
Bayer, Aracruz, Stora Enso, among others. To stop
them from further exploiting our nature, our labour and our country.
7. Demand the end of slave labour, the super
exploitation of labour and the punishment of the
perpetrators. All latifundios that use any form
of slave labour must be expropriated, without any
compensation, as stated in the Amendment of the
Constitutional Bill which was elected at first instance in the City Chamber.
8. To fight against all forms of violence in the
countryside, as well as the crimilization of
Social Movements. Demand punishment for the
murderers those who hired and the executors of
all those fighting for the Agrarian Reform, which
go unpunished or their law suits are paralised in the Judiciary System.
9. To struggle to limit the size of land
ownership. For the legal recognition of the
historical rights of indigenous peoples and afro-descendents to their land.
10. To fight for the production of agri-fuels to
be under control of peasants and rural workers,
as part of the policulture, with environmental
protection and seeking the energetic sovereignty of each region.
11. To defend native and creole seeds. To
struggle against GMO seeds. Promote the practices
of agro-ecology and agricultural techniques that
respect the environment. Settlements and rural
communities must give priority to produce foods
without agro-chemicals for the internal market.
12. To defend fresh water springs fountains and
reservoirs. Water is a common good from Nature
and it belongs to humanity. It cannot be privatized by any corporation.
13. To preserve forests and promote the planting
of native and fruit trees, in all settlement
areas and rural communities, contributing for the
environmental preservation and in the struggle against global warming.
14. To struggle for the working class to have
access to basic, secondary and public higher
education, of excellent quality and free.
15. To develop different ways of organizing
campaigns and programmes to eradicate illiteracy
in rural areas and in Brazilian society as whole,
using transformative pedagogical guidelines.
16. Struggle for each settlement or community in
the countryside to have their own popular media,
such as, free community radio stations. Struggle
for the democratization of all media in society
contributing to create political awareness and the respect of popular culture.
17. To strengthen the network with rural social
movements in Via Campesina Brazil, in all states
and regions. To build alliances with all Social
Movements and Popular Assemblies in counties, regions and states.
18. Contribute in the construction of all
possible mechanisms for the popular integration
in Latin-America, through ALBA Bolivarian
Alternative the Peoples of the Americas. Exercise
INTERNATIONAL solidarity with people who suffer
the aggressions of the empire, specially at the
moment, the people in CUBA, HAITI, IRAQ and PALESTINE.
We call the Brazilian people to organize and
struggle for a fair and egalitarian society,
which will only be made possible with the
mobilization of everyone. The great
transformations are always the work of people
organized. And, we from the MST, commit to never give up and always struggle.
*Latifundio large land holding
AGRARIAN REFORM: For Social Justice and Popular Sovereignty!
Brazilia, 15 June 2007
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