[EVENT] Meet with Milena, Landless Workers Movement (MST - Brazil) on Tues, July 29, 6-8 pm at 450K Busboys
Josephine Chu
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An Evening with Milena, Landless Workers Movement (Brazil) Social Movements in Action: Lessons Learned from MST Tuesday, July 29, 6 - 8 pm ET Busboys and Poets - 450 K St NW, Washington, DC 20001 |
Join Grassroots International for an evening with MST member Milena filled with conversation, food, and drinks! In a dialogue facilitated by Grassroots International Director of Global Philanthropy Saulo, Milena can share her perspective working with one of the world’s largest social movements and how MST successfully organized during the height of authoritarianism in Brazil.
Milena,
26, is from the MST's Internationalist Sector. In the past, she
contributed to the communication and events at the Armazém do Campo in
São Paulo and Paraná states. She joined the movement six years ago via
the student movement in Londrina, Paraná. She has a degree in French
Literature from UEL (Londrina State University) and is also a French
teacher and translator.
Created in 1983 by families displaced from their ancestral land, the MST has organized over a million landless farmers throughout the country who have occupied and transformed 7.5 million hectares of land from industrial agriculture to agro-ecological production.
Grassroots International is a global grantmaking and movement support organization. We accompany, fund, and work in solidarity with movements, predominantly in the Global South and the U.S., on the frontlines of change. Grassroots International has been in deep partnership with the MST for
more than two decades. To learn more about MST, check out these blog
posts: Resisting from Within the Belly of the Agro-Industrial Beast and 10 Things You Should Know about Brazil’s MST. |
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