Join us beforehand at 4:00pm for a screening of Strong Roots: The Landless Worker’s Movement in Brazil (Raiz Forte), a documentary that also covers the brutal massacre of 19 peasants in the northern state of Pará by Brazilian police on April 17, 1996.

Panelists:

• Lorrette Picciano, Executive Director, Rural Coalition/Coalición Rural
• Emira Woods, Co-Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at Institute for Policy Studies
• Lynn Schneider, Agricultural Officer, USAID

For more information, contact lyndsayhughes@gmail.com