Homeless Workers' Movement

The Brazilian Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto (MTST)('Movement of Workers Without A Roof') emerged in 1997 out of a decision taken in the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) ([Landless Workers' Movement])to for organisations that could take up militant organising in the work place and with regard to urban reform and housing struggles. MTST emerged to take up the struggle for urban land and housing.^[1]

Currently, the MTST is autonomous in relation to the MST, but it has a strategic alliance with the MST.

The best known land occupations under taken by the MTST are:

   * João Cândido - Itapecerica da Serra - (2007-)
   * Carlos Lamarca - Osasco - (2002-)
   * Chico Mendes - Taboão da Serra - (2005 - 2006)
   * Santo Dias/"Ocupação da Volks" - São Bernardo do Campo (2003)
   * Rosa Luxemburgo - São Paulo /Osasco - (2004
   * Anita Garibaldi - Guarulhos - (2001-)

External links

^ [See the official MTST site at http://www.mtst.info/]

[1] [See the official MTST site at http://www.mtst.info/]

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