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The Sights and Voices of Dispossession: The Fight for the Land and the Emerging Culture of the MST (The Movement of the Landless Rural Workers of Brazil)

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Mendes, Chico

'Francisco Neves Mendes Filho (1944-88), Chico Mendes, was union leader and president of the Union of Rural Workers of Xapuri, Acre, founder of the PT and the CUT in Acre, murdered by farmers connected to the UDR' (Fernandes, Bernardo Mançano e Stedile, João Pedro. Brava gente: a trajetória do MST e a luta pela terra no Brasil. São Paulo: Editora Fundação Perseu Abramo, 1999, p. 68, n. 5).

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November 2002

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MENDESCH053

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