[Lasnetmail] URGENT ACTION NEEDED, MST leader detained

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Updates from Brazil's Landless Workers Movement
>From the Friends of the MST 

*The MST distributes biweekly updates that FMST-US volunteers translate and make available. Please read the latest below.* 

This update includes: 

1. URGENT ACTION: [08/22/06] MST files habeas corpus, asks for international support **SOLIDARITY LETTERS INCLUDED** 

2. MST UPDATE: [08/16/06] MST Informa #123 - Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples 

3. ANALYSIS: [08/16/06] "Monoculture is a prison, it always was" - Eduardo Galeano writes to MST, Via Campesina 

4. UPCOMING EVENTS: [10/10/06] Globalize Struggle! Stand with MST & Via Campesina in the fight against GE Trees 

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1. URGENT ACTION: [08/22/06] MST files habeas corpus, asks for international support **SOLIDARITY LETTERS INCLUDED** 

Jaime Amorim, member of the MST's National Coordinating Body, is being detained by the authorities in Pernambuco (PE). On Monday, August 21st, Jaime was driving to the funeral of two murdered Landless Workers, both shot and killed by hired gunmen this past Sunday, when he was stopped and arrested by the police. 

The MST has asked for international support to secure the release of Jaime Amorim. More details, and draft solidarity letters (in Portuguese), are available at: http://www.mstbrazil.org/?q=urgentappealaug22 

2. MST UPDATE: [08/16/06] MST Informa #123 - Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples 

Dear Friends of the MST, 

We want to ask for your solidarity. On August 20, the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) will deliver the final report about the 18,000 hectares of indigenous lands in the north of Espirito Santo, today owned by Aracruz Cellulose. The area originally belonged to the Tupiniquim and Guarani peoples but in 1967, the company began to plant eucalyptus indiscriminately and evicted the villages from the region. Before the arrival of Aracruz, there were 40 indigenous villages in the state. Today there are only seven. 

Read more: http://www.mstbrazil.org/?q=mstinforma123 

3. ANALYSIS: [08/16/06] "Monoculture is a prison, it always was" - Eduardo Galeano writes to MST, Via Campesina 

"This sad routine of past centuries began with gold and silver and continued with sugar, tobacco, guano, saltpeter, copper, tin, rubber, cocoa, bananas, coffee, oil... What have these splendors left us? They left us without inheritance or affection. Gardens converted into deserts, abandoned countrysides, perforated mountains, putrid waters, long caravans of impoverished people condemned to early deaths, empty palaces where ghosts rove. 

Now is the turn of GMO/transgenic soybeans and of cellulose..." 

Read more: http://www.mstbrazil.org/?q=galeanoongmo 

4. UPCOMING EVENTS: [10/10/06] Globalize Struggle! Stand with MST & Via Campesina in the fight against GE Trees 

With the MST & Via Campesina mobilized against the spread of the "Green Desert", people throughout the world are joining in struggle. In the United States, the Global Justice Ecology Project invites all to JOIN THE RESISTANCE!: 

MAJOR INDUSTRY CONFERENCE ON GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TREES AND INDUSTRIAL TREE PLANTATIONS OCTOBER 10-13, 2006, CHARLESTON, SC. 

Event Details: http://www.mstbrazil.org/?q=stopgetreessolidarity 

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