A-Infos (en) Brazil, OSL: Ruralists want to criminalize occupations! No to PL 709/23! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On the 21st and 22nd of May, Bill (PL) 709/2023 was voted, as a matter 
of urgency, in the Chamber of Deputies, which seeks to criminalize 
popular movements that fight for the right to land and housing, which 
occupy land and urban properties as a tool in the fight for a dignified 
life. The PL is articulated by the ruralist caucus and other sectors of 
the dominant classes, through the "Zero Invasion" movement, which 
appears as a reactionary movement of landowners who organize themselves 
(including using firearms) to attack indigenous peoples, rural workers 
and peasants fighting for land. If PL 709/23 is approved, people who 
occupy land or properties will lose access to social programs, will not 
be able to take up vacancies in the public service, and movements will 
be required to have a CNPJ, which would facilitate criminalization.

Those most affected by this PL are families who are in occupations 
considered illegal by the State. Occupations are legitimate tools of 
struggle that denounce the extent to which the basic conditions for a 
dignified life are denied to the working class. In general, Congress' 
project continues to meet the demands of capitalists, and this PL 
exposes this. We also remember that the Lula-Alckmin government itself, 
in its negotiations with Centrão, supported the change in the land 
regularization law, so that now the private sector can carry out urban 
adjustments, and the population will, once again, be the ones pay for 
them. PL 709/23 is yet another direct attack on the entire working class 
in the countryside and cities, and it must be stopped!

As previously pointed out by our organization (OSL, Mato Grosso: hotbed 
of agro-export exploitation and capitalist-statist violence in the 
countryside and forests, June 19), the last ten years have seen a 
reactionary offensive that caused a dizzying increase in violence by 
landowners against the people in struggle, in different regions of the 
country. This violence is being accompanied by pressure from different 
state governments to approve laws that work towards the criminalization 
of rural popular movements.

Social movements across Brazil will carry out campaigns and actions 
against PL 709/23, including a national action on August 13th! The bill 
will still be discussed by the Senate, so popular pressure and struggle 
are important. It is essential to strengthen the fight against this measure!

No to PL 709/23!
For a world where no one is homeless!
Fighting and Occupying is not a crime!

Libertarian Socialist Organization

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