GRASS WAR!: PEASANT STRUGGLE IN BRAZIL
Price: $225.00 Code: 1963 |
Directed by Cliff Welch and Toni Perrine
2001, color, 34 mins.
Purchase: $225 Classroom Rental: $55
In 1959, some 800 families resisted efforts to remove them from their remote farms. One peasant leader, Jofre Correa Netto, became known as the "Fidel Castro of Brazil," and became the target of an assassination attempt. The peasant struggle he led gained wide attention and became a significant marker of the long history of struggle against social inequality in Brazil, one demonstrated currently by the Landless Workers' Movement (MST). This video combines archival footage with contemporary interviews with Correa Netto and other MST activists as well as landowners and government agents to illuminate the political and economic forces involved in this historic struggle.
Award of Merit, Latin American Studies Association
2001, color, 34 mins.
Purchase: $225 Classroom Rental: $55
In 1959, some 800 families resisted efforts to remove them from their remote farms. One peasant leader, Jofre Correa Netto, became known as the "Fidel Castro of Brazil," and became the target of an assassination attempt. The peasant struggle he led gained wide attention and became a significant marker of the long history of struggle against social inequality in Brazil, one demonstrated currently by the Landless Workers' Movement (MST). This video combines archival footage with contemporary interviews with Correa Netto and other MST activists as well as landowners and government agents to illuminate the political and economic forces involved in this historic struggle.
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CINE Golden Eagle AwardAward of Merit, Latin American Studies Association