Pólo Sindical

David Moore — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:20:11 +0000

Short Name

Pólo

English Name

Pólo Sindical dos Trabalhadores Rurais

Local Language Name

Place

Brazil

Additional links

Pólo Sindical dos Trabalhadores Rurais site (Portuguese only)

Million Cistern Project Provides Life-giving Water in Brazil

Saulo Araujo — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:16:32 +0000

Brazil's northeast, with the biggest population of any arid region in the world, is home to many of the more than 10 million Brazilians who live without regular access to clean and safe drinking water. For years the people of the region struggled to survive with no help from national public policy makers. Now policy makers are pursuing two very different approaches to the problem of the northeast's water insecurity: a community driven, grassroots public policy that supports building low-cost cisterns to provide water to the families who need it most, and a top-down mega-project to redirect the São Francisco River through a massive series of dams and canals.

Water conflicts in the São Francisco River basin in Brazil

Saulo Araujo — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:24:19 +0000

We have documented several cases of land conflicts in Brazil, a country of considerable territorial dimensions. Land conflicts are not the only contradiction in the largest South American economy. Brazil is also facing a growing problem of water conflicts, despite the fact that Brazil holds 8% of the world’s freshwater reserves.

Free translation from the Landless Workers Movement (MST’s) website

One Drop of Water at a Time: Solidarity Moves the Global Movement for Social Justice

Saulo Araujo — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:00:42 +0000

In times of war and institutionalized terrorism, examples of solidarity between people in the United States and the Global South give us hope for a better world. In fact, it is only through solidarity with people that we will never actually meet that we can build the "global movement for social justice".

Here is a case that has re-energized us at Grassroots International this end of year.

Last spring, Grassroots made a brief presentation to students of Boston's Philbrick School about our work to support rural communities throughout the globe to reclaim their rights to land, water and food.