Traditional communities in Brazil are responsible for the kind of food production that conserves the socio-biodiversity of the biomes. In the Cerrado, the diversity of managed plants, clearing land, local production arrangements, the transmission of knowledge,...
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Letter from CESE´s 2022 Assembly
“The City, a Fighting Ground” “Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their transgression and to the descendants of Jacob their sins. (Isaiah 58:1) Gathered together in its assembly on 09 and 10 June 2022, the...
Meeting run by CESE discusses drafting social projects and encourages grant funding applications from urban youth
Young people are frequently recognized for their strength and identified for their revolutionary potential. They say, “they are the future”. For Flora Rodrigues, from the National Coalition of Young Black Feminists (Articulação Nacional de Negras Jovens Feministas:...
With support from CESE, Casulo Cultural Association promotes cultural exchange between the Guarani Kaiowá peoples and the population of Dourados in Mato Grosso do Sul
Promoting extensive cultural exchange between the Guarani Kaiowá peoples who live around Dourados in Mato Grosso do Sul and the city’s general population. This was the main aim of the project Words that Cure – the Guarani Kaiowá Art of Resistance, which the Casulo...
World Environment Day: The Cerrado exists because its people resist
When Aliene Barbosa e Silva talks about “resist to exist” she makes a point of emphasizing that there is no poetry in this. Her life, the existence of the Aparecida do Oeste Community in which she lives, and the lives of so many others located on the banks of the...
Community and Autonomous Funding as a strategy for sustainability: a debate between women’s organizations in the Northeast
Despite the challenging social and political context, women’s movements in the Northeast have made progress in their goals to assert and defend rights. Linked together through collectives and organizations, these women are on the frontline, confronting structural...
CESE supports Ecumenical Amazonizar Network in fight against fundamentalism and religious intolerance
Within a political scenario that involves the violation of rights and the growth of hate speech, fundamentalism is advancing across the country. This approach to power is based on racism and aimed at threatening democracy and curtailing the rights of minorities. In...
Trained provided by CESE and COIAB discusses political participation, memory, communication and violence, with indigenous women
A past full of struggles that cannot be forgotten, constantly disputed narratives, advocacy and the struggle for rights. The fight for life! Memory, communication, political participation and violence, these are all phenomena that profoundly affect the lives...
Central Caatinga Warehouse sells family farming produce in Juazeiro with support from CESE
Family farming produce from the caatinga has a new arena for visibility and sales. This is the Central Caatinga Warehouse (Central Armazém da Caatinga), a strategic commercial space inaugurated on 27 April in Juazeiro (Bahia), and product of work...
Gender and Race in the Cerrado: workshop analyses how capitalism, the patriarchy and racism provide structure for the political situation in Brazil
Capitalism, racism and the patriarchy are intimately connected pillars that support one another’s existence. Social inequalities persist because women and black populations have been systematically excluded. There is therefore no anti-capitalist struggle...