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This year 2026, Brazil's Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), is working to expand its role in electoral politics by fielding candidates for state and national assemblies in the October 4th elections. Our correspondent Brian Mier has more. teleSUR
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00:00Welcome back. This year, Brazil's Landless Rural Workers Movement, or MST, is working to expand its role in electoral politics
00:08by fielding candidates for state and national assemblies in the October 4th elections. Our correspondent Premier has more.
00:46We've launched candidates in the state and federal elections of comrades from agrarian reform villages and camps and activists from
00:53our movement.
00:55We can't let the guns, beef, and agribusiness caucuses make decisions about our lives and our future, because politics decides
01:04everything – agrarian reform, health, education, housing, and the right to dignified employment for everyone.
01:11During the municipal elections of 2024, the MST elected 133 mayors, vice-mayors, and city councilors nationwide for the Workers'
01:20Party, revealing it as an emerging force in electoral politics.
01:24With strategies designed collectively in hundreds of local and regional democratic assemblies, one of the goals of holding office for
01:31the MST is to use the issue of food security to strengthen relationships between the rural and urban working class.
01:38The Lama's Rural Workers Movement, the MST, is a social movement that fights for the right to land, but also
01:45that fights for a political project that will transform our country, Brazil.
01:50Today we are living in a polarized nation. The growth of right-wing extremism has caused the social movements to
01:57work to occupy space in parliament.
02:00With Silicon Valley tech fascists Javier Mele and the Trump administration doing everything they can to strengthen anti-democratic right
02:08-wing extremists this year,
02:10the MST's participation in the elections is more important than ever.
02:14Brian Meir, Telesur, Receive.
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