Moisés Borges of the national coordination of Brazilian Movement of Dam Affected People– MAB analyzes the perspectives of the crime of Brumadinho for the São Francisco River. It was with great sadness and revolt that we accompanied yet another terrible environmental crime provoked by Vale. The development model and the predatory mining that produced rupture […]
“For the pains of this world, Oh Lord, We beg mercy, At one and the same time the creation groans …” Rodolfo Gaede In solidarity with the population from Minas Gerais, who mourns another environmental crime caused by the rupture of a dam of iron ore tailings in Brumadinho, still without any possibility to measure […]
The Bahia Museum of Art received hundreds of people to listen to the prophetic inspirations of Benedictine monk Marcelo Barros and Methodist pastor and feminist philosopher Nancy Cardoso. Barros and Nancy met on November 8th in Salvador (BA), on the Ecumenical Panel “Listening to the cries: Popular resistance weaves hope!”. Carried out in partnership between […]
CESE, which has supported us for more than a decade and knows our struggle, is who encourages us to articulate with other quilombola communities to fight for the regularization of the Traditional Fisheries Communities´Territory and to denounce all situations of injustice we have been through (Marizelha Lopes – Fishermen and Fisherwomen’s Movement)
“The main issue we have been struggling for is our indigenous land´s demarcation. Because of this, we have been suffering a lot, due to the agribusiness pressure. Many leaders are dying and being murdered and nothing is being done” (Elson Canteiro – Guarani Kaiowá – Mato Grosso do Sul State)
We, from quilombola communities, depend on our territory for survival. That is why CESE´s support is important, to keep struggling to contain the setbacks and to prevent the sale of our lands to foreign capital. We hope our ancestry and the constitution be respected (Sandra Andrade-National Coordination of Quilombola Communities Articulation)
