\nThe ICBIE Meets the Sem Terra Movement<\/strong><\/p>\n
(…) You, too are a hill
\nand a rocky pathway
\nand play in the reeds,
\nand you know the vines
\nthat are silent in the night.
\nYou don’t speak words.
\nThere is a land that is silent
\nand it’s not your land.”<\/p>\n
Cesare Pavese – The \u00a0Land and Death<\/p>\n
Return to feel the earth under your feet, in an institutional hall.<\/p>\n
More than a spell, what happened at Palazzo Marini last October 30th was the sensation of a naturalness reclaimed through a simple, restored order of words: the land belongs to the people.<\/p>\n
This interesting initiative, promoted by Adriano Zaccagnini, vice-president of the Agricultural Commission of the House of Deputies and Serena Romagnoli of Amig@s MST Italia, \u00a0wants to promote ties between various representatives of Italian agriculture and the Movimento dos Trabalhdores Rurais Sem Terra (Sem Terra Movement of Rural Workers) that is celebrating its first 30 years of life and struggle.<\/p>\n
Francisca Rodriguez is the voice of La Via Campesina, another international organization that intervened to testify regarding the transversality of the action of farmers and farmhands, landless people and migrants. \u00a0“Capital – she proclaims with an embattled calm – infringes upon all the laws of nature. \u00a0The “semilla” (seed) is a symbol of resistance against those who profit and poison our fields.”<\/p>\n
Representing the Sem Terra Movement was Joao Pedro Stedile, one of the national directors of the MST and author of various publications regarding the movement and agrarian reform. \u00a0The Sem Terra, present in almost all the states of Brazil (24 of a total of 26), can count upon large numbers: a million and a half people are involved, with more than 35,000 land holdings released to families. \u00a0The movement abides by the principles of agro-ecology, promotes biodiversity and polyculture; it fights for the abolition of slavery under the multinational corporations that control the cultivation and the marketing of agricultural products, a highly relevant theme, considering the movements that are currently opposing the mega-treaties such as the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), which in practice configures a plan of deregulation for standards of security and protection of basic citizens’ rights, all in the name of profits..<\/p>\n
Acting as a small delegation from the ICBIE, we feel profoundly involved, in particular with the second axis that has, throughout history, represented a field of battle: education. \u00a0Stedile told us that the process of liberation of the Sem Terra necessarily comes through access to knowledge, a motive for which, on the heels of the important heredity sown by the pedagogy of the oppressed of Paulo Friere, a big slice of the work is done inside schools and itinerant universities.<\/p>\n
The process of formation, always following along the long path of Freire, cannot be separated from the practice, where theory and action form a partnership, a key to stimulate reflexion, conscience, mobilization and concrete struggle. \u00a0Every member of the movement is engaged in some way, as shown by the periodical “Jornal da crian\u00e7a MST” (Journal of MST Children), edited by boys and girls of the movement.<\/p>\n
In fact, in the pages of the edition dedicated to Dandara and Zumbi, two symbolic characters of the liberation struggle of the African people of Brazil, I find a confirmation that, judging by the precious encounters, the ICBIE warship continues to sail in propitious waters and its legions tread on fruitful lands.<\/p>\n
Loona<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Terra Nossa –<\/strong><\/p>\n O Icbie encontra o Movimento Sem Terra<\/strong><\/p>\n ” (…) Anche tu sei collina Cesare Pavese – La Terra e la Morte<\/p>\n Voltar a sentir a terra abaixo dos p\u00e9s, numa sala institucional.<\/p>\n Aconteceu no Palazzo Marini em Roma, no \u00faltimo 30 de outubro, um milagre, ou melhor uma sensa\u00e7\u00e3o de naturalidade que se reivindicou atrav\u00e9s de uma simples ordem de palavras: a terra \u00e9 dos povos.<\/p>\n A iniciativa interessante foi promovida por Adriano Zaccagnini, vicepresidente da \u201cCommiss\u00e3o Agricultura da Camera dei Deputati\u201d e por Serena Romagnoli da Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Amigas MST Italia. O objetivo \u00e9 promover a colabora\u00e7\u00e3o entre alguns representantes da agricultura itaiana e o Movimento dos Trabalhdores Rurais Sem Terra que festeja os primeiros 30 anos de vida e luta.<\/p>\n Francisca Rodriguez \u00a0representa La Via Campesina, outra importante organiza\u00e7\u00e3o internacional, que testemunha a transversalidade da causa dos agricultores e camponeses, popula\u00e7\u00f5es sem-terra e migrantes. “O Capital – ela declara com a calma de uma guerreira – viola todas as regras da natureza. A ” Semilla” \u00e9 um s\u00edmbolo de resist\u00eancia contra aqueles que derivam lucros e envenenam os nossos campos.”<\/p>\n Joao Pedro Stedile, representante da Dire\u00e7\u00e3o Nacional do MST e autor de numerosas publica\u00e7\u00f5es sobre o tema do movimento e da reforma agr\u00e1ria.<\/p>\n Os Sem Terra, presentes em quase todos os estados do Brasil (24 sobre os 26 totais), apresentam grandes numeros: um milh\u00e3o e meio de pessoas envolvidas e mais de 35.000 terrenos entregue aos nucleos familiares.<\/p>\n O movimento persegue principios de agro ecologia e promove a biodiversidade, a policultura e luta para a aboli\u00e7\u00e3o da escravid\u00e3o das multinacionais sobre os cultivos e o com\u00e9rcio de produtos agr\u00edcolas, um tema atual se pensarmos nas mobiliza\u00e7\u00f5es de hoje que lutam contra os enormes contratos de livre com\u00e9rcio, como o TTIP (Tratado Trans\u00e2tlantico para o com\u00e9rcio e os investimentos), que, de fato, representam uma falta de regras sobre standard de seguran\u00e7a e prote\u00e7\u00e3o dos direitos b\u00e1sicos dos cidad\u00e3os, em nome do lucro.<\/p>\n Como pequeno grupo do ICBIE nos sentimos muito envolvidos, sobre tudo no tema da educa\u00e7\u00e3o, que representa um \u00e2mbito de constru\u00e7\u00e3o e luta. Stedile conta que o processo de liberta\u00e7\u00e3o dos Sem Terra precisa absolutamente da acessibilidade ao conhecimento, e \u00e9 por isso, que seguindo os passos da pedagogia da opress\u00e3o de Paulo Freire, o trabalho maior \u00e9 realizado nas escolas e nas universidades. Os processo de forma\u00e7\u00e3o, sempre seguindo a imposta\u00e7\u00e3o de Freire, n\u00e3o podem ser separados da pr\u00e1tica: teoria e a\u00e7\u00e3o, estando em coniv\u00eancia, encontram a chave para estimular reflex\u00e3o, consci\u00eancia, mobiliza\u00e7\u00e3o e luta concreta. Todos os integrantes do movimento est\u00e3o envolvidos, como demonstra a realiza\u00e7\u00e3o do \u201cJornal da crian\u00e7a MST\u201d que, como o mesmo nome fala, tem a curadoria das crian\u00e7as do movimento. Nas p\u00e1ginas da edi\u00e7\u00e3o dedicada \u00e0 Dandara e Zumbi, as duas personagens simbolos da luta de liberta\u00e7\u00e3o do povo africano no Brasil, encontro a confirma\u00e7\u00e3o que, considerando os encontros preciosos, o navio ICBIE continua navegando atrav\u00e9s de \u00e1guas boas e percorre um terreno f\u00e9rtil.<\/p>\n Loona<\/p>\n![\"sem](\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/sem-terra.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n
\ne sentiero di sassi
\ne gioco nei canneti,
\ne conosci la vigna
\nche di notte tace.
\nTu non dici parole.
\nC’\u00e8 una terra che tace
\ne non \u00e8 terra tua.”<\/p>\n