MST/ Springsteen and me

Mr Springsteen and I both chose this evening to play concerts in Belgium. I had a great show in Leuven, I trust his went well in Antwerp.It has been a few years now since I was in Brazil and worked alongside the MST. Their struggle continues. .MST NEWS Police Evict 250 Families in Attack on Elizabeth Teixeira EncampmentOn Nov. 29, shock troops from the Military Police of Sao Paulo state in Brazil invaded the Elizabeth Teixeira encampment of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) in the Tatu Forest Plot in Limeira municipality near Campinas. The police agents destroyed makeshift homes and violently evicted the 250 families living on the encampment, which has been occupied by the MST since April 21, 2007. The police operation left some 30 people injured, some of them hit by police rubber bullets. MST leader Gilmar Mauro and Jose de Arimateia, coordinator of the encampment, were among those injured. The National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) had promised the MST that there would be negotiations to prevent an eviction. The MST blames the state government and the local authorities of Limeira for the police operation. (Adital, Nov. 29 from Prensa MST; Agencia Brasil, Nov. 29).Read more: http://www.mstbrazil.org/?q=node/555