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Solidarity with Brazil: support movements on the COVID-19 frontlines
In this dire moment for Brazil, hope lives within the social movements on the frontlines of the pandemic. This campaign was created to allow people around the world to contribute with the struggle of the Indigenous, the quilombola (Black rural communities), the traditional rural communities and the impoverished urban neighbourhoods. These are the groups who have bravely resisted for centuries and who inspire us to keep fighting.
The pandemic exposed Bolsonaro’s most perverse and genocidal side. We will not remain silent while the government destroys basic rights, the environment, basic services, people’s dignity, democracy – and fundamentally – lives.
We call on people around the world, of all nationalities, languages and ethnicity to join this call for solidarity. Donate with whatever you can and share this campaign!
Where is the money going?
All the money raised (minus processing fees) will be distributed to the grassroots organizations supporting communities impacted by COVID-19:
• APIB – Network of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil
• CONAQ – National Coordination of the Network of Black Quilombola Rural Communities
• National Network of Traditional Peoples and Communities;
•Urban movements: 1) Sociedade do Bem Viver, 2) Uneafro, 3) MTST – Movement of the Homeless Workers and 4) Periferia Viva
How much is a $30 donation worth in each currency (estimated conversion rate): CAD$ 30 = R$ 118, EURO$ 30 = R$ 181 and USD$ 30 = R$ 160.
Who are we?
We are a group of Brazilians living abroad actively working for democracy, justice and social rights in Brazil. Organizers: Coletivo Brasil-Montréal (Canada), Coletivo Brasil-Québec (Canada), FIBRA (Frente Internacional de Brasileiros Contra o Golpe), Coletivo por um Brasil Democrático LA (US), Resiste Toronto (Canada), Coletivo Taoca (Zurich – Switzerland), and Coletivo Grito (Geneva – Switzerland).
The funds will be received by the Committee for Human Rights in Latin America (CDHAL), an international solidarity organization based in Canada.
If you want to do more, help promote this campaign or sign up your collective, get in touch with us! Email: brazilsolidarity@gmail.com
Donations are only tax deductible in Canada.
Support to the struggle of the quilombolas communities of Maranhão
In Brazil, according to IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) there are 5.972 quilombolas communities while CONAQ (National Commission of Quilombola Communities) declares more than 6330 quilombos.
In the state of Maranhão alone there are 682 of these communities, from which 411 are in open
process to land regularisation at INCRA (National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform),
representing the largest demand of such category in the whole country.
Amidst the current context of the new coronavirus pandemic, the quilombola communities from Maranhão are continuously affected by conflicts within and loss of their lands.
The road works to duplicate BR135 road in Maranhão that affects the municipalities of Miranda do Norte, Anajatuba, Santa Rita e Itapecuru-Mirim endangers around 100 quilombolas communities, within which approximately 100 thousand people live.
These affected communities demand that a Prior Consultation, Free, Informed, according to the International Labour Organization’s 169 Convention, take place. Such road work during the current COVID-19 pandemic has the chance to wipe out the quilombolas communities from Maranhão.
We decided to join our voices in this struggle…
Participants:
– Andréia de Jesus
State’s Deputy
(Minas Gerais, Brazil)
– Antônio Ribeiro
(Maranhão, Brazil)
– Celso Canedo
(Bahia, Brazil)
– Cláudia Queiroz
(Bahia, Brazil)
– Dje Macedo Quiroga
(Dominican Republic)
– Gecy Marty
International Committee for Brazilian Democracy
(Zurich, Switzerland)
– Giorgia Prates
Photographer, Journalist at Brasil de Fato newspaper
(Paraná, Brazil)
– Inês Oludé
Lula Livre Collective
(Brussels, Belgium)
– Isadora Gomes de Carvalho Matos
(Bahia, Brazil)
– Juliana Barbosa de Jesus
Law Student
(Bahia, Brazil)
– Maíra Moreira
GRITO Collective
(Geneva, Switzerland)
– Maurício Paixão
Researcher at the Centre of Black Culture of Maranhão
(Maranhão, Brazil)
– Maurício Tizumba
Instrumentalist, singer and songwriter
(Minas Gerais, Brazil)
– Mônica Francisco
State Deputy
(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
– Lala Ferreira
Women of Resistance Abroad (Mulheres da Resistência no Exterior – MRE)
(Tampa, Florida, USA)
– Ludimilla Teixeira
Women United with Brazil (Mulheres Unidas com o Brasil – MUCB)
(Bahia, Brazil)
– Renata Linhares
Member of the Centre of African-Brazilian and Indigenous Studies (Núcleo de Estudos Afro-brasileiros e Indígenas – NEABI) of Ceará’s Federal Institute
(Quixadá – Ceará, Brazil)
– Sérgio Pererê
Singer and Songwriter
(Minas Gerais, Brazil)
– Uriara Maciel
Madalena Anastácia International Collective and Festival Gira
(Berlin, Germany)
An initiative of TAOCA Collective (@coletivotaoca) and GRITO Collective (@coletivogrito.ch) with CONAQ (@conaquilombos) and Comitê Quilombola de Santa Rita.
Editing: Thais Aguiar Zeller – Gaumen Films (@gaumenfilmes)
Music: Maurício Tizumba (@mauricio_tizumba) e Sérgio Pererê (@sergio_perere)
Pererê Videoclip: Leandro Miranda e Paulo Bernardo