Traditional riverside communities in the region of the Abaetetuba islands will be affected by
the construction and operation of the port complex of Cargill Agrícola S.A. Ways of life and
survival are compromised and threatened by the intense navigation of barges in the Capim
watershed. The new social movements are now not only mobilized and organized, in defense
of their claims, but also in confrontation with their adversaries, and in the struggle for
common rights. This study seeks to assess that riverine social movements are capable of
producing political action strategies, in confrontation with the economic power of the
company. he articulation of forces that, together with supporting institutions – Cáritas, CPT,
STR, FASE, MORIVA, MP, Public Defender's Office of the State – offer a powerful form of
organized resistance to the harmful effects of the economic interests of the company Cargill
Agrícola SA The information was collected through a documentary survey and field research
data, through qualitative methods, with interviews with the leaders of the local social
movement, in total (08) and the leaders of the support institutions of six (06). Through a
descriptive study of the action strategies and institutionalization mechanisms of the riverside
social movement in Baixo Tocantins, it was revealed that the company makes their rights
invisible as traditional populations in the territory, initiates a process of expropriation of
populations, co-opts leaders, establishes its political and institutional connections with
municipal, state and federal entities, for the construction of the TUP Abaetetuba port complex
initiates the expropriation process, co-opts leaders, establishes political and institutional
connections with municipal, state and federal entities, in order to complete the construction of
the TUP Abaetetuba port complex.
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