00:00Welcome back to From the South. After three days the Landless Rural Workers
00:05Movement or MST's first national urban political organization assembly is coming
00:09to a close. Our correspondent Brian Mir has more. For the last three days over a
00:16thousand delegates from poor urban neighborhoods and favelas across Brazil
00:22have met here in Recife, camped out on the grounds of the Federal Research
00:27Institute in Recife, Pernambuco as part of the MST or Landless Rural Workers
00:32Movement's first ever national conference of urban political organizing
00:38called Mao Solidarios or solidarity hands. Here they've spent the last three days
00:45debating strategies on how to unite the struggles of the urban and rural
00:49working classes. The project started during the pandemic when small farmers
00:54from the MST agrarian reform settlements started delivering food to urban
00:59neighborhoods and set up community kitchens so that people who couldn't feed their
01:02families wouldn't go hungry. From that moment forward for the last six years the
01:06organizing of the MST in Brazil cities has only grown. The events just come to an
01:12end. People are getting back on their buses, some of them traveling up to three
01:15days by bus to get to their hometowns after this conference, the first ever in
01:21MSC history uniting the urban and rural political struggle.
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