Peasants in Brazil hold march of 'excluded'

Some 2,000 Indian peasants hold "march of the excluded" April 22 in Puerto Seguro, Brazil, marking 500 years of colonial domination. Cops attacked the protest with tear gas, nightsticks, and rubber bullets. The Movement of Landless Rural Workers marked the anniversary by launching a campaign to occupy 500 new farms and ranches laying idle. Blacks in Brazil also held protests recently against the marginal role offered them in that Third World capitalist country.

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