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Protesters from "roofless movement" prepare to sleep in front of building where Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva lives, in Sao Bernardo do Campo
12 Apr 2007
Source: Reuters
 
Protesters from the "roofless movement" prepare to sleep in front of the building where Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva lives, in Sao Bernardo do Campo, 24km from Sao Paulo April 12, 2007. The movement wants the government to invest more in public housing.
REUTERS/CAETANO BARREIRA


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Boys play in the camp erected by an estimated 12,000 members of Brazil's Roofless Workers Movement (MTST) that invaded a 120 hectare (296 acres) plot of private land nearly two months ago to pressure the government to grant them ownership, in Itapecerica da Serra 38 kms (24 miles) southwest of Sao Paulo, May 6, 2007. Brazil's homeless and landless movements have gained momentum in recent weeks through a coordinated campaign of invasions of buildings and idle land aimed at securing property from the government. A court declared that the land in Itapecerica da Serra must be vacated and returned to its owner by May 7, but the squatters have vowed to resist any attempt to force them out.



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