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By Redação Paraná – Brasil de Fato Newsroom Paraná – Published 7 Mar, 2021
In Paraná, peasants from the MST prepare food donations to mark International Women’s Day. Actions of March 8 and 14.

The first days of March already marked the month as the worst since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic in Brazil. A new record of deaths in 24 hours was released on Wednesday (3), with 1,910 victims of the virus, the highest number of deaths worldwide on this date.
It is in this context that peasants from the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) start a national day with the theme “Women for life, sowing resistance against hunger and violence”. The mobilizations are in reference to the International Day of the Woman, the 8 of March.
The actions will take place between March 8 and 14 (from Monday to Sunday), across the country. In Paraná, mobilizations are planned in at least 11 cities, with the participation of farmers from dozens of settlements and camps.
Actions will be between 8 and 14 (Monday to Sunday)

Priscila Facina Monnerat, coordinator of the MST Women’s Collective in Paraná, emphasizes the month of March as the annual period marked by the mobilization of women. This year, the defense of life takes center stage.
“This scenario that we face, of record deaths by covid-19, a lot of violence and insecurity, is the result of a genocidal policy of the Bolsonaro government. What we want is the return of emergency aid, vaccines now and for everyone, and the confrontation of the various forms of violence ”, she demands.
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