[Lasnetmail] [URGENT ACTION ALERT] MST Activist Killed, Letters Could Help Bring Those Responsible to Justice

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Updates from Brazil's Landless Workers Movement 
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1. URGENT ACTION ALERT] MST Activist Killed, Letters Could Help Bring Those Responsible to Justice 

Dear Friends of the MST, On October 21 at 1:30 p.m., a Via Campesina encampment located at Syngenta's 127-hectare farm used for field trials of genetically modified crops in Santa Tereza do Oeste, in Parana, Brazil, was attacked by an armed militia. During the brutal attack, a leader and activist from the Movement of Landless Workers (MST) and member of Via Campesina, Valmir Mota de Oliveira, 42 years old (known as "Keno,") was killed at point-blank range by two shots to the chest. In order to ensure the punishment of those responsible for the aforementioned crimes-primarily those who ordered the attacks-as well as the disbandment of armed militias in the region, we are asking all friends and allies to send letters to the Syngenta headquarters in the United States, with a copy to the Swiss Embassy in Washington, DC. Your action is crucial to ensure an end to injustice and impunity in Brazil's countryside. Please ACT NOW! 

Read more: http://www.mstbrazil.org/?q=node/546 
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