https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/e239d024-e0c7-4a1c-9113-f090f73046cf MST WOMEN OCCUPY HIGHWAY FOR THE RIGHT TO GROW FOOD 🥕👊🏽 🇧🇷Yesterday, March 13, as part of a national day of action, more than 250 women from rural communities in the states of Maranhão, Pará and Tocantins occupied a stretch of the BR-010 highway, the access road to one of agribusiness giant Suzano's largest pulp and paper mills in the country and a strategic region for agribusiness to denounce the advance of eucalyptus crop, violence against rural workers, aerial spraying of pesticides and soil and water contamination. According to the MST, the company has been threatening rural workers and prohibiting the planting of food on agrarian reform territories, with practices of intimidation, threats of legal prosecution, the use of physical violence, and the dumping of poison on plantations. "They come into our shacks with the support of private security guards, take our harvest, forbid us to plant and threaten to dump poison with drones. We could plant all this land here, but now it's all eucalyptus,” says one of the farmers from the south of Maranhão. The leadership of the MST, at the National Day of Women's Struggles across the country, points to the history of legal complaints against Suzano and calls the attention of regional and federal bodies. "Society has noticed the rise in food prices, but we need to question the reasons for this increase. Among them are the lack of areas to grow food and also the poisoning of our territories, our soil and our water. Suzano is one of these companies that has had an impact on family farming, with the advance of eucalyptus on what used to be productive land and the spraying of pesticides,” explains Divina Lopes, from the MST leadership in Maranhão. Video from MST-Amazônica Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:35:55 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/e239d024-e0c7-4a1c-9113-f090f73046cf All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.