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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!

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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…