The MST has 8 core values that it fosters among its members. 1. Collective direction (administration) 2. Division of tasks 3. Professionalism 4. Discipline 5. Planning 6. Study 7. Link to the masses 8. Critique and Auto Critique This last principle of Critique and Auto Critique is central to the...
A March in Hounour of 106 Year-old MST Member Luiz Beltrame is a poet and MST activist from the state of Sao Paulo. He is 106 years old. Born in Paramirim in the state of Bahia on October 11, 1908, he worked from a young age in the fields, in mining,...
The course assistant Melinda and I sit inside a 61-seat bus on its way back to Sao Paulo. The participants of the
"Comrades don't leave, we're about to start the mystique."
Our little group of Canadian "Comrades" was headed to our dorms to receive our morning schedule after a delicious breakfast of organic honey, jelly, butter and freshly made white bread accompanied by hot coffee, or milk, and freshly picked oranges. For added flavour with the warm milk cocoa powder was provided. Everything (perhaps not the powder) was grown in the school or a cooperatives directed by the MST. Cooperatives are agricultural ventures managed collectively by MST members for the benefit of the community and its members. They are based on expropriated and divided land cultivated by former encamped families. In some settlements, once the land has been awarded the families begin building on their new piece of government land but work collective to produce the needed goods for the community. Nobody owns the land. The land is of the people "o povo." The government gives them the right to stay and live there indefinitely until they stop producing. The honey and jelly came from one of many of these cooperatives in Brazil.
I sit back and lay on a hammock five floors up from the ground. It's midnight in Sao Paulo but it's 9pm at home. I talk with my family over Skype and I'm ecstatic about seeing their faces--especially the kids. My oldest nephew takes one look at the screen, smiles...
I'm stealing Cinderella. It's a crazy thought I know. I've fallen in love with her. I always knew I would but I never thought it'd be this good.
Una introducción básica sobre los antecedentes de la violencia en Venezuela actualmente en las noticias. Mi esperanza es que los lectores no políticamente activos en América del Norte obtengan una mejor comprensión de los argumentos que ambos grupos están expresando.
This article is meant as a basic primer on the background of Venezuela’s violence currently in the news. My hope is that non-politically active readers in North America gain a better insight into the arguments that both groups are voicing.
My dad has failed in every business venture he has pursued. He has failed to work in every field where has received a formal education in, and has had more titles than I can remember. My dad is crazy. My dad is also my hero.
You've had those days: sleepless night, miserable weather, constantly running late etc etc etc.
I feel for you. I had one of those days yesterday.
