Gilvânia Ferreira da Silva is a member of the MST (Landless Workers Movement) National Direction, in the Maranhao State, Brazil. The MST is the largest social movement in Latin America with an estimated 1.5 million landless members organized in 23 out 27 states.
The MST carries out long-overdue land reform in a country mired by unjust land distribution. Since 1985, the MST has peacefully occupied unused land where they have established cooperative farms, constructed houses, schools for children and adults and clinics, promoted indigenous cultures and a healthy and sustainable environment and gender equality.
Members have not only managed to secure land, therefore food security for their families, but also continue to develop a sustainable socio-economic model that offers a concrete alternative to today’s globalization that puts profits before people and humanity.
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