Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil 160x120

(for slow Internet connections) Written in the Brazil constitution is the principle that land must be productive. The Landless Reform Movement bases its actions on this principle.
The movement identifies land that is not used productively or has not had taxes paid on it or was acquired by dubious or unlawful means.
The Landless Workers Movement then occupies the land and makes its case to the government that the title of the land should pass to those who will develop the land to benefit people.
In this clip several people who are occupying land in Sao Paulo explain the process by which poor landless people petition the government for title to the farmland they are cultivating.

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