Olsson, 27, is a member of the MST's National Coordinating Committee from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. He is a leader of an MST-run cooperative farm involving 28 families in Piratini, near the border with Uruguay.
Olsson will speak with a group of small farmers in southern Georgia, and later at a Militant Labor Forum in Atlanta on Wednesday, April 14. In Florida he is invited to address a meeting of the Florida Farm Workers Association in Homestead, and a group of farmers in the central part of the state, among other events. For more information, contact the Pathfinder bookstore in Atlanta, (404) 577-7976.