Sentence examples for peasant group from inspiring English sources

In a 1999 postscript to "Bandits," he mentioned with some pride how, in the seventies, members of a radical Mexican peasant group had let him know they approved of his writing on social banditry.

And the Movement of the Landless, a leftist peasant group, is marking the anniversary with a campaign to occupy 500 ranches and farms that it contends are lying idle.

Like others who have turned to local, sustainably produced foods to effect social change, Native Americans are embracing the so-called food sovereignty movement, a term coined in the 1990s by the international peasant group La Via Campesina, to restore culture and economic autonomy.

(Reuters) BRAZIL: PEASANT PROTEST -- A protester was reported to have been killed in a clash with the police after the Rural Landless Workers Movement, a radical peasant group, occupied government buildings in more than a dozen states, demanding that the government accelerate the distribution of land to the poor and provide more credit to farmworkers.

The victims of the attack on Thursday were members of a peasant group allied with the former ruling party and were killed outside Venustiano Carranza by a group of leftist farmers with whom they had political and land disputes, officials said.

Under the pressure of Qing armies, Li was forced to leave Xi'an in February 1645, and he was killed either by his own hand or by a peasant group that had organized for self-defense in this time of rampant banditry in September 1645 after fleeing though several provinces.

It gave power to labor unions and money to peasant groups and received loyalty in return.

The president's promises have encouraged both genuine peasant groups and opportunists to invade farms.

There are occasional comments about the singing of peasant groups, which is an item that is rare even in the early historical materials of Europe.

He has also resisted calls from unions and peasant groups to reopen parts of the 1994 free trade agreement with Washington and Ottawa.

It is reportedly sheltered by peasant groups, drug traffickers and corrupt police.The EPP has been a big headache for Mr Lugo.