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Video (3 Parts): The Landless Movement in Brazil

Posted by Mike E on November 20, 2008

Thanks to TellNoLies for proposing this post. Please post further information and summations in the following thread.

For the next two parts…

 

 

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4 Responses to “Video (3 Parts): The Landless Movement in Brazil”

  1. N3wDay said

    November 20, 2008 at 10:26 am

    TNL,

    Can you recommend any readings on these folks? This doc is a good introduction to get a feel for the movement but it definitely left me wanting to know more, mostly along the lines of the comments you made introducing these videos on the other thread.

    I’m curious about organization, education, how they hold the territories they seize, etc.

  2. TellNoLies said

    November 20, 2008 at 11:44 am

    I’ve read very little in English. There are a couple of books:

    “To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil” by Wendy Wolford and Anngus Lindsay Wright.

    and

    “Cutting the Wire: The Story of the Landless Movement in Brazil” by Sue Branford and Jan Rocha.

    I’ve read a couple academic articles, but most of what I know I know through conversations and from reading some of their cadre-training material is Spanish translation. It is these latter materials that made the biggest impression on me and made me revise the view I’d picked up from some US Maoists of viewing Freirian popular education as “mass line light.” [On this, while, as with everything, the application is uneven, I've come to regard the Latin American experience with popular education as constituting something of a leap in the application of the mass line (which was clearly an important influence on Freire if you check his footnotes).]

  3. Big L said

    November 20, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    I can’t access the videos at the moment, but am looking forward to learning from them.

    Here’s a Monthly Review article about Neoliberal Agrarian issues in Brazil
    http://www.monthlyreview.org/0207stedile.htm

  4. celticfire said

    November 21, 2008 at 1:25 am

    Out of curiosity, what impact does/did the Cuban revolution have on this movement?

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