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Paulo Freire, world educator, on his centennial—with a bonus Freire poem
September 22, 2021Because he is so admired outside of Brazil, Paulo Freire is sometimes revered for the wrong reasons.
Read moreGuiomar’s story: Putting Paulo Freire’s philosophy of literacy into practice
April 08, 2021When Guiomar Albuquerque was 13 years old, she began to teach fishermen in the Ilha do Maruim (Mosquito Island) favela of Olinda how to read and write.
Read moreFirst of April: A 13-year-old witnesses the 1964 Brazilian military coup
April 05, 2021Celso Marconi, the longest-lived cinema critic in the world, recently commented on his Facebook page: “After 1964, the 1st of April ceased to be a playful day . Sad.”
Read moreAbandoned by governments, Indigenous people create their own health post in Manaus
March 10, 2021Manaus, Brazil (Feb. 26, updated March 4) — With the public health system collapsing and the oxygen crisis, Amazonas has had more than 290,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the second and worst wave of the pandemic. The crisis has dramatically affected the inhabitants of Park of Tribes, located in the urban zone of Manaus, and, without the support of public authorities, they decided to seek their own solution. And...
Read moreFor Afro-Brazilian ‘quilombolas,’ pandemic is synonymous with abandonment, racism, and ‘necropolitics’
March 09, 2021MOJU, PARÁ, Brazil— “We are not even getting access to the basic necessities,” says Raimundo Magno, the leader of the Africa quilombola community in Moju, Pará, his face grim with anguish. Magno’s complaint points to the abandonment felt in the quilombolas, communities of descendants of Africans brought to Brazil as enslaved laborers. The sense they’ve been deserted is brought about by the lack of help, by the absence of specific...
Read moreThe devastating, irreparable death of Aruká Juma
March 03, 2021The death of the last survivor of the Juma people, the warrior Amoim Aruká, from complications linked to COVID-19, is an incalculable tragedy. There were 15,000 of them at the turn of the 20th century and by 2002 there were only five Jumas left.
Read moreWhat the trees of Notre Dame have to tell us
March 03, 2021On April 15, 2019, watching television footage of Notre Dame Cathedral burning, I wept like millions of other French people and others around the world. The flames which invaded the screen brought back memories of my first visit to the cathedral as a child, reading the novel by Victor Hugo (Notre Dame de Paris, 1831), the familiarity of its gray silhouette against the Parisian sky. Historic monuments are like beautiful...
Read moreLeading Brazilian Communist José Carlos Ruy has died
February 08, 2021Please understand, I have no title for this text. I’ll let André Cintra, the competent cultural editor of Vermelho, choose one.
Read moreDrastic effects of COVID in Manaus, Brazil: No oxygen, patients transferred, curfew
January 19, 2021This week the capital of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, broke the record for new hospitalizations and burials.
Read moreGlobal demand for meat propels deforestation in Brazil, says report
January 19, 2021The growing world consumption of meat and the actions of the current government are the main ingredients of a recipe leading to the destruction of the Brazilian rainforest.
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