This is from DEM VOLKE DIENEN:
We
hereby publish an inofficial and preliminary translation of a very important
article on the peasants struggle in
Below,
we reproduce an article from the Resistance Peasant portal about the capture of
the last lands of Santa Elina that occurred 25 years after the historic Battle
of Corumbiara.
In
the early hours of August 16, dozens of peasant families led by the League of
Poor Peasants of Rondônia and
Located
in the municipality of Chupinguaia, on the MC01 line, about 675 km from Porto
Velho, the Nossa Senhora estate belongs to a third of the old Fazenda Santa
Elina and has approximately 6 thousand hectares of land owned by a single
family who have been enriched at the expense of illegal use of these public
lands for extensive livestock. According to information from the peasants, the
title of property and the Contract for the Disposal of Public Lands (CATP) are
falsified by the landowner who claims to be the owner of Fazenda Nossa Senhora.
While
landowners falsify documents, enrich imperialist countries, destroy our
forests, exploit pedestrians, murder peasants and indigenous people, the
thousands of small and medium-sized peasants are responsible for more than 70%
of the food production that supplies the Brazilian table, according to last
census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
With
this new take, the lands of Nossa Senhora, previously exploited for the benefit
of a few and to serve foreign interests, will now be cut off for hundreds of
families to produce food and prosper generating income and moving the economy
of the cities of Chupinguaia, Corumbiara, Cherry trees and region.
The
takeover takes place exactly one week after the 9th of August, the date on
which it celebrated 25 years of the heroism of the peasants who opposed with
fierce resistance against the planned attack by the landlords and the old state
that became known as “Corumbiara Massacre”.
With
the occupation, the peasants in practice demand justice for the crimes of the
land thief who has their hands stained with peasant blood.
The
families' entry into the Nossa Senhora latifundium was received with great
enthusiasm and animation by the peasant masses of the neighboring areas, in
addition to the small and medium traders in the region; everyone has expressed
active support through food donations. On the first day of the intake, more
than 20 liters of milk arrived to help many mothers with their young children.
The
profound general crisis of bureaucratic capitalism aggravated by the pandemic
and the consequent worsening of people's living conditions with the reduction
of the already meager jobs in the cities of Rondônia have thrown thousands of
workers into unemployment, causing more and more masses to see land grabs of
the latifundium as a way out of the crisis, confirming in practice what the LCP
has affirmed in its slogan “Against the crisis, take all the land of the
latifundium!”
The
new takeover has attracted peasants from several neighboring regions and has
led many of the families already living in the surrounding areas to call on
family members to conquer them also their piece of land and the right to work.
Every
day more and more families arrive to camp and fight for a piece of ground to
work and produce.
Written by name
19
August 2020
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