Brazilian MST Activists Invade Farm Owned by Monsanto
BY Juliette Kerr
World Markets Analysis
June 04, 2003

Members of Brazil's radical landless movement, the Movimento Sem Terra (MST), have invaded a farm belonging to the US-based multinational Monsanto in the state of Goias. The MST said that the action was taken in protest at what it sees as the illegal growing of GM crops. This is the third estate owned by Monsanto that has been occupied by the MST so far this year. The invasion of a foreign-owned farm will put further pressure on the government to mend relations with the MST. The MST is a traditional ally of the ruling Worker's Party (PT) and whilst the MST refrained from staging any high-profile land invasions during Lula's electoral campaign, it has restarted illegal land occupations in order to put pressure on the government to deliver its pledges for agrarian reform.

In recent weeks the MST has become increasingly daring, creating its largest ever encampment in the state of Sao Paulo, which plans to bring together 5,000 families. The PT's attitude to GM-modified crops is somewhat ambiguous: it has banned the sowing of any new crops, but stockpiles of GM-crops from the previous harvest can still be sold.
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hmmm... knew we should have given this guy a pants award!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,969404,00.html

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