In 1982, National Land for People (NLP) leaders in Fresno decided to give up their direct-action fight for agrarian reform in California. At the same time, a diverse set of local agrarian reform movements in Brazil set about creating a national coalition, the Landless Workers Movement (MST).

This talk explores the shared histories of these organizations to reveal common motives, strategies, social technologies, state and political relationships, and time-space variables that can help deepen knowledge of territorial disputes, social movements, reform proposals, inter-American relations, and multinational corporate activities, such as land grabbing, that help explain the Americas in the 20th century.

This talk will be presented by Clifford Andrew “Cliff” Welch, the current Latin American Perspectives Fellow and a professor of contemporary Brazilian history at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) in São Paulo, Brazil.

Attend this talk in-person or via Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent to registered participants (please register on Eventbrite) on the day of the meeting. If attending in person, join us in Orbach Library, 2nd floor, Room 240.

Sponsors include Latin American Perspectives, UCR Latino and Latin American Studies Research Center, and the UCR Library.