Conflitos socioespaciais no campo brasileiro: conteúdo das manifestações de luta pela terra em Minas Gerais no início do século XXI

Abstract

This work aims to study the evidenced claims in the demonstrations of struggle for land as an expression of the agrarian question, promoted by socio-territorial movements in the Minas Gerais state, highlighting the appropriate spaces for the actions as well the organizations involved and the types of demonstrations undertaken. For the study, the main source is the database the Struggle for land DATALUTA, organized from the collect and the systematization of information about the conflict in the countryside and the struggle for land in Brazil. This theme choice involves the reflection about the importance of public demonstrations, full of political and social meaning, as tools of claim rights that should be guaranteed to the population as a whole, responsible for significant political , economic and cultural changes in the society. The time frame is structured according to the DATALUTA s systematization methodology with records of events starting from the year 2000. Thus, the study is based on understanding the types of countryside manifestations, in Minas Gerais and especially in Triângulo Mineiro / Alto Paranaiba, such as highway lock and occupation of public building , as well as the movements involved, including the Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra- MST and Movimento de Libertação dos sem terra MLST, investigate this reality from the exposed claims, to know, expropriation of occupied areas, against the injustice and violence in the countryside, education and health, infrastructure, among others. The questions approached in this study show that subjects and movements of struggle for land organize themselves, join forces and are articulated at different scales of action, guided by the everyday experience and political education, being the popular pressure as a fundamental mean to gain proposed changes.