KØBENHAVN: The Struggle for Land and Critical Preparations for COP30
Come and meet Alexandre Gomes da Silva from the large Brazilian social movement MST – the landless rural workers’ movement. He will talk about the movement’s victories in gaining access to agricultural land through land occupations and provide insight into the major mobilisations currently taking place in the country in the run-up to COP30 – and the popular summit parallel to COP30 – in the Amazon in November.
The event will be interpreted from Portuguese to English. At 7 p.m., the soup kitchen collective of Folkets Hus La Olla Común serves a vegan Latin American dinner at donation price.
Alexandre Gomes da Silva is an activist in the MST and regional coordinator in the Sertão do Araripe area. He is also active in two MST groups in the state of Pernambuco – LGBT Without Land and a human rights group.
The landless rural workers’ movement, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), is fighting for land reform in Brazil, one of the countries where agricultural land is concentrated in the hands of a few and where land reform has never been implemented. This means that the land is still largely in the hands of the families who were favoured with land back in colonial times. The MST is fighting for land reform with a focus on redistribution to the landless and support for agroecological production. The landless farmers in the MST typically occupy unproductive large estates, cultivate the land, and after many years of cultivation, they can obtain title to the land.
