Trident Ploughshares expresses sorrow and concern over the increasing number of people in the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement MST who are being violently murdered. MST was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1991.
“The Right Livelihood Award honours and supports those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today. In many countries, the Award is often referred to as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’.”
Cícero Guedes, leader of the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement MST, murdered by 12 bullets to the head on January 25th, 2013
Shortly after the murder of MST leader Cícero Guedes news arrived that his colleague Regina dos Santos Pinho, an MST activist working in the same area, was found dead in her home.
Many RLA Laureates around the world including Trident Ploughshares have expressed a desire to help and support the MST and The Right Livelihood Award Foundation have decided to send a delegation of Laureates to Rio to express solidarity, investigate recent events and to demand justice and better protection of activists.
Angie Zelter from Trident Ploughshares will be part of the RLA Laureates delegation to Brazil from 31st March to 6th April 2013 and will be writing reports which we will publish on this website as they arrive.
More info on the urgent situation in Brazil from the RLA:
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/pressrel_feb13.html
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/mst.html
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/cpt.html