Memory of Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers Movement

Brazil’s Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST (Landless Rural Workers Movement) is one of the most significant social movements in Latin America history. This project seeks to preserve and share its memory through cataloging and digitizing a large collection of documents, photographs, publications, recordings and institutional records. These are severely threatened by two factors: The archive suffers deterioration through humidity and uncontrolled temperature changes in the basement of the MST’s national headquarters in São Paulo where they are stored. Political uncertainty in Brazil makes the archive vulnerable to sequester and destruction.