News and Politics | April 07, 2008 | Comment on this video (4)

Landless Movement of Brazil - PART II - (an Eviction)

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Armed conflict between a community of landless rural workers in the south of Brazil and the police. An eviction episode.
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  • mayalynn
  • edsonuk
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      edsonuk  

    • The 10 people asked to present were supose to sign onto a report of what happened that moment, just so the army could register the agreement. It is always hard to say what will happen to these people. When you see the army coming closer there are lots of photographers on their side and their job is to identify who are the liders. For many times they took my picture and afterwards they wanted to know who I was. I told them i was from international press and showed them my student ID from London and i think they were a bit impressed.

    • 4 years ago
  • edsonuk
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      edsonuk  

    • I'm uploading the complete version of this video which has more background of the facts. I had to edit this part of my video more stylized with all the cuts. i know it doesnt look very polished but when I went to this comunity, i had in mind only to shoot some interviews. When i got there, they told me that the police was about to come to evict them. As i had my camera with me I decided to stay and shoot the whole process. But i was really scared and I used my camera to film and at the same time to see what was going on around me. Those evictions can became very dangerous. That is the reazon you see the barricade. It is because the MST wants to stop the police from getting inside the camp to avoid fights. I had to save the footage which had lots of jumps and quick moves, just a reflex of how stressed i was when i was filming. People told me afterwards, that the fact that i was there with the camera helped to stop the situation from leading to fights. Thanks for your comment.

    • 4 years ago
  • ulla
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      ulla  

    • very important you were there - though if it was in 2007 it would have been nice if there would have been a bit more background information and the roughcut a bit more polished. (in my opinion).
      Very impressive, good to see it came to a peaceful and non-violent solution although not sure why they wanted 10 names for? Have these been suffering from repression later on?

    • 4 years ago
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