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The Movement of Landless Peasants Honored by the city of Guernica for its struggle for Agrarian Reform [Brazil]
an article by The Movement of Landless Peasants
The Movement of Landless Peasants (MST) will receive
the 2013 Peace and Reconciliation Award from the
city of Guernica in the Basque Country of Spain, in
an awards ceremony on April 26.
Day of Struggle for Agrarian Reform
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The MST will be honored for organizing farmers who
have no land in the struggle for agrarian reform.
"We have now achieved more than 1,500 legalized
settlements, comprising 350,000 households and a
total of 5 million hectares," said the local mayor,
José María Gorroño.
The decision was made by the jury composed of
political representatives of Gernika-Lumo, the mayor
of the German city of Pforzheim, Gogoratuz Gernika,
the Foundation House of Culture and the Museum of
Peace
The activity will take place during the activities
commemorating the 76-year anniversary of the bombing
of Guernica.
The bombing of Guernica was an air attack on April
26, 1937 by German aircraft of the Condor Legion
during the Spanish Civil War in the Basque Country.
Thousands of people died.
The painting of Guernica by Pablo Picasso in 1937,
is usually treated as representative of the bombing
suffered by the town of Guernica.
(Click here for a Portuguese version of this article)
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