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DEMOCRACY NGOS SOCIAL INCLUSION

Brazilian NGOs and progressive political action: An interview with Avanildo Duque

When Brasilians talk about the organized left, they usually refer to the social movements, labor unions and the organic intellectuals who support them. There is another category of civil society, however, that has  a positive influence on progressive advances in Brasilian society, the non-governmental organizations, or NGOs.  Over the past few decades a number of […]

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AGRARIAN REFORM AUTHORITARIANISM HOUSING NGOS Pará SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

URGENT: A call for solidarity against forced evictions of MST camps in northern Brazil

Dear Comrades An aggressive attack is being waged against MST landless peasants in the northern state of Pará, Brazil. Large-scale landowners along with local judicial authorities, mainstrain media and the Brazilian military police are targeting MST camps throughout the country. 2.000 peasant families living in 20 camps located in the northern State of Pará are […]

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DEMOCRACY EDITORIAL FOREIGN POLICY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA LAVA JATO LAWFARE MEDIA NGOS OPINION UNITED STATES

The Coup, one year on & how Anglo media failed Brasil

At this time of crisis in the media industry, it is with regret that an article like this even needs to be published, but analysis of the failure of Anglo media on Brazil, the world’s 5th most populous country, from 2012-2016 is important not only for the historical record, but for other countries facing similar internal […]

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AUTHORITARIANISM DEMOCRACY EQUALITY NGOS SOCIAL INCLUSION SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Escalating repression and managing disorder

FASE – one of Brazil’s oldest and most respective Non-Governmental Organisations, have published this bulletin on the current situation in the country. Although Michel Temer’s government has brandished the old, worn out motto “Order and Progress,” day by day the country is undergoing a paradoxical combination of escalating repression against social movements with the mere […]