Visual companion | Community Voz S4E19: Brazil Report back Pt 2, En Defensa da Terra e do MST

Community Voz is C2C's ecofeminist radio show which presents the grassroots work that local people are doing across intersecting movements. Our radio shows are engaging conversations about issues and news you probably won't hear anywhere else. We believe in community radio and alternative media, which highlights the character, beauty and courage of the voices of people on the ground. Tune in for reflections and report backs from C2C organizers and allies on the frontlines of the struggle for farmworker justice. We are extremely grateful to the talents volunteered on this show by Liz Darrow, who did all of the recording and engineering, as well as KMRE, our local non profit public radio station and host!

For 3 weeks in March, C2C promotoras and leaders visited with the MST (Landless Workers Movement) in Brazil. We studied at the MST’s political consciousness-raising school, participated in the first national gathering of the women of the MST as part of an international delegation, marched with our brothers and sisters on International Women’s Day, visited an MST encampment (Marielle Vive), and visited an MST settlement (Mario Lago). To learn more about our trip and all that we brought back from our time with the MST, listen to Part 2 of our Brazil report back series here.

Music in this episode: Construcao by Chico Buarque, O dia em que a Terra Parou by Raul Seixas

Below are photographs of some of the places and experiences we described on the show:

musicians marching alongside us at the international women’s day march playing the berimbau -maureen

mid-march selfie with karen from rethink new orleands + portia from the national union of metalworkers south africa/socialist revolutionary workers party! -maureen

Mural at the encampment showing Luis Ferreira, an activist who was murdered while fighting for water rights, and Marielle Franco, who was murdered while fighting for black women’s rights -Lucy

Here we are in the school named after Luis, where they teach children and have different types of activities during the week: music, movie nights, etc. -Lucy

linocuts made by children living at the marielle vive encampment -maureen

Learning from our compañero about plants near the school at Marielle vive.. particularly a plant that tastes like meat! meat is very hard to come by at the camp, so many folks get essential nutrients from this plant. #wisdom -australia

Rosalinda and Brenda with dinner at Marielle Vive -Liz

one of the barrack homes marked with the resident’s “nucleo de base” (base group, neighborhood organizing unit) -maureen

Squash growing outside a home at Marielle Vive -liz

Stepheny running the jump rope at Marielle Vive -liz

mural in the classroom where we slept -maureen