Peasant struggle: new challenges | Cantos do Sabiá

João Lucas França – Broadcaster and communicator for the Sabiá Center.

April 17 – International Day of Peasant Struggle – is a date of remembrance. Of non-conformity. A moment to remember the peasant people, the front line of national food. People who move the fields of Brazil.

April 17th was chosen because, on that same date in 1996, landless rural workers were killed by the military police in Pará. A massacre against those fighting for land, for space, for justice.

Nearly 60 years later, the countryside is still the territory of the same conflicts, but also against the force of an energy transition that is weakening the countryside and peasant ways of life.

The peasant struggle continues. Shall we talk about the new challenges? João do Vale – a member of the CPT in Pernambuco (Pastoral Land Commission), director of the film Vento Agreste, and part of the People’s Web of Pernambuco– talks to us.

Cantos do Sabiá is the Sabiá Center Podcast! Every week we discuss agroecology, sustainability and politics in the countryside and the city! The podcast goes live every Monday, with the complete interview edition that originally made up the Center’s radio program. https://spoti.fi/31VtUj5