Xosé Abad

thu09sepAll Dayfri08oct(All Day)(GMT+02:00) Xosé AbadMST: Land, Justice and RightsMédez Nuñez Gardens

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MST: Land, Justice and Rights

The Landless Rural Workers Movement – MST, a Brazilian social movement that fights for agrarian reform and social justice.

It originates in opposition to the more concentrated and exclusionary model of agrarian reform imposed by the military regime, including selective agricultural modernization, which excluded small farmers, mainly in the 1970s.

The MST fundamentally seeks to redistribute unproductive lands.

The group is among the largest social movements in Latin America with a membership of 1.5 million landless peasants organised across 24 of Brazil’s 27 states.

The group is among the main social movements in Latin America, with 1,500 people in the country, organized in 24 of the 27 states in Brazil.
Since the movement’s creation in January 1984, they were killed 1.722 activists of the movement.

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Author

Xosé Abad

www.estudioabad.com

(Figures – Girona)

He started his professional activity in 1979 as graphic correspondent for EFE agency, collaborating in different media. Several photography magazines and newspapers as National Geographic, Planeta Humano, El Semanal, El Pais, El Magazine and La Vanguardia has publish his works.

Abad is the promoter of web page “Photographers against war.

He has created and directed “Revela, International Forum of photography and society” touring in the main cities of Galicia. He was also awarded with the “friends of the Unesco” prize to his career in information and image as a social commitment 2007-2008.

He was the winner the first edition of Luis Ksado photography creation contest.

He had developed several documentary project in the last decades, as “O segredo da frouxeira” winner of Mexican International Festival of Cinema with “Contra el silencio, todas las voces” in “Human Rights” category.

He also won the first prize in Spring Festival of Cinema. He was nominated in Mestre Mateo contest to the best documentary “A pegada dos avós”, that was selected as best documentary in Mestre Mateo contest and in the third edition of Spring Festival of Cinema, the “ISAAC” about the multi-faceted galicianist Isaac Díaz Pardo.

Time

September 9 (Thursday) - October 8 (Friday)(GMT+02:00)

Location

Médez Nuñez Gardens

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