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We, women from the periphery

We , women from the periphery” , an independent journalistic collective, formed by journalists living in different peripheral regions of the city of São Paulo, is engaged in the fight against COVID-19. The collective's website houses a variety of analyzes that highlight how the pandemic unevenly affects the periphery, such as the risks of exclusion from distance learning, the limits of access to cultural goods, the use of public transport and a special series on Environmental Racism: indigenous and quilombola women in protecting their people against COVID-19.

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National Forum for Urban Reform launches public notice to support peripheries in partnership with the European Union

The National Forum for Urban Reform, in partnership with the European Union, launched the Public Notice for Local Support Initiatives in the Periphery. The objective was to make it possible to carry out actions through local forums and articulations in the development of activities in the emergency fight and prevention of Covid-19, related to the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ten organizations were selected and each initiative will receive between R$6 thousand and R$9 thousand. For more information, access the full announcement on the website .

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“For the Life of Our Mothers”

Children of housemaids launched the letter “For the lives of our mothers”, addressed not only to the authorities, but to the entire civil society: “when we see that our family members who are domestic workers and day laborers continue to work normally, we emphasize the emergency of complying with the stipulated quarantine by the authorities and we demand paid dismissal”.

Discover the Manifesto Letter .

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Actions of the Homeless Workers Movement against the pandemic

The MTST has developed several actions to face the coronavirus in the periphery, from legal and health guidelines to the distribution of donations. One of them was the collection of donations through an electronic crowdfunding. To learn more about the actions promoted on the Movement page

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Periphery in Movement: manifesto from communicators from all over the country

In a manifesto signed by dozens of groups from all over the country, activist media collectives working in the periphery declared: “We, peripheral and peripheral communicators from various parts of the country, are joining efforts to collaborate with accurate information and that really manage to reach ours. We need to know how to inform… From us to ours!” More information on website of the collective of communicators.

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Who to donate to

The Para Quem Doar brings together several initiatives throughout Brazil to make it easier for donors to find initiatives, learn about what they do and donate. The page is divided by regions of the country and it is also possible to select alphabetically.

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CUFA and Mothers of the Favelas

Central Única das Favelas is collecting and distributing donations across the country, through the Mães das Favelas , carried out in partnership with several companies. The goal is to collect donations of resources to provide a basic income for mothers, allowing them to decide what they need to buy. To find out more about CUFA and its actions during the pandemic, see the interview with the organization's President, Preto Zezé, here .

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UNEAfro, Sefras and Partners Campaign

The UNEAfro organization and 12 other partners, including quilombola support networks and the Franciscan Solidarity Service, distributed basic food baskets and hygiene kits in outskirts and quilombos. They are also guaranteeing a minimum income for teachers, students and coordinators of community courses. On the campaign it is possible to find detailed information on the steps, the accountability of the resources already collected and also access the vakinha online.

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Dictionary of Favelas Marielle Franco​

The Dicionário de Favelas Marielle Franco , which aims to stimulate and allow the collection and collective construction of existing knowledge about favelas, is a key reference on information related to the fight against the pandemic in favelas (mainly in Rio de Janeiro, but also from elsewhere in the country).

On the platform it is possible to find contact lists of collectives and campaigns , research, reports, photos, videos, comments, interviews and academic reflections. The platform also compiles data from organizations that report on spending on what they have been receiving via donations (see here ).

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Popular Movements against COVID-19

On March 23, a group of national popular movements fighting for the right to the city released the document – ​​In Defense of the People, Democracy, the Rule of Law and the fight against COVID-19. It presents a set of claims to face the pandemic, from the perspective of guaranteeing rights and preserving life.

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Support Network for Families and Friends of Fatal Victims of Covid-19 in Brazil

Created in April 2020, the Support Network for Families and Friends of Fatal Victims of Covid-19 in Brazil aims to promote the reception of the bereaved free of charge, offering materials and addresses of mental health institutions and psychosocial care. The group is organized into seven Working Groups on the following topics: a) psychosocial support; b) deployment and management of platforms; c) Administration and maintenance of memorial pages for honoring and welcoming the bereaved; d) Documentation and archive; e) Content curation and repositories of music, poetry, videos and other arts; Ecumenical religious support and spiritual support for the bereaved and g) Elaboration of projects and actions to raise funds or support for the sustainability of the Network. Check out the report on the creation of the entity here .

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40,000 deaths: Crosses on Copacabana Beach

On June 11, 2020, members of the NGO Rio da Paz dug 100 symbolic graves on Copacabana beach, in protest at the way the Brazilian government has dealt with the pandemic in the country. The objective was to remember the more than 40 thousand people who died due to Covid-19 in Brazil. The action gained national attention when pro-government observers began digging up the crosses and a man passing in front of the installation was filmed inserting them again as he expressed his outrage at the lack of empathy for those who had lost family members. See the video here.

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50,000 Deaths: Crosses on the Esplanade

On June 28, 2020, protesters in several cities across the country made installations of crosses in honor of the milestone of 50,000 deaths. On the Esplanada dos Ministérios in Brasília, a banner fixed on the spot stated: “+ 50,000 dead. Bolsonaro, stop denying it.” See the report here .

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100,000 Deaths: Day of Mourning / Day of Struggle in Defense of Life and Jobs

On August 7, 2020, eleven trade union centrals in partnership with various social movements organized symbolic acts in São Paulo, Recife, Salvador, Porto Alegre, and several other cities in honor of the 100,000 dead by Covid-19 and in defense of life, of employment and calling the population to contribute in solidarity actions. Check the report here and here .

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Breathe Brazil

Articulation created in February 2021 by religious leaders of a diversity of faiths, linked to CESEEP (Ecumenical Center for Services to Evangelization and Popular Education). The starting point of the movement was the launch of the Manifesto Respira Brasil , which defends vaccine for all, the SUS, the expansion of Emergency Aid and the impeachment of Bolsonaro. A central axis of the network is the fight for the right to mourn and funeral rituals, and for public recognition of the suffering of deaths caused by Covid-19. See the group's Facebook page here .

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300,000 Deaths: Symbolic Funeral Procession in Praça dos Três Poderes

In an event held on March 25, 2021, organized by the National Health Council, the Federal District Nurses Union, the Dentists Union, the DF Health Council, and the DF OAB, a symbolic funeral procession was held in honor of the 300,000 people who lost their lives to Covid-19. Wearing black t-shirts, protesters marched towards the center of the square, carrying a coffin with a map of Brazil, symbolizing the deaths that occurred across the country. Then, each of the participants placed a rose on top of the funeral urn. See report here .

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AVICO Brasil – Association of Victims and Families of Victims of Covid-19

The Association of Victims and Families of Victims of Covid-19 – AVICO Brasil was founded on April 8, 2021 in the city of Porto Alegre/RS, from the indignation of two human rights defenders, Gustavo Bernardes and Paola Falceta, with the inefficiency and negligence of the State in the face of the multiple consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in the lives of Brazilians. The collective is made up of survivors and family members of voluntary victims and has as a priority objective to represent the general and individual interests of its members (and non-associates) related to the victims of COVID-19. The association has also been creating therapeutic encounter groups with bereaved people. In June 2021, it filed with the Attorney General's Office (PGR) a criminal representation against President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) for negligence in relation to the pandemic. In August, he filed a request for the president's impeachment.

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Memorial for the Victims of Coronavirus in Brazil

This facebook page is one of the initiatives of the Support Network for Families of Fatal Victims of Covid-19 in Brazil, an emergency network formed by several volunteers, professionals and people in solidarity with the families of victims in the country, in his honor. You can find tribute posts to victims of Covid-19.

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Life and Justice Association

Created on April 30, 2021, the Life and Justice Association in Support and Defense of the Rights of Victims of COVID-19 seeks to create a national network of support and solidarity for living victims and families of fatal victims of Covid-19. “Associação Vida e Justiça is a space for human solidarity, for the defense and promotion of life, for the articulation of public policies to support and repair victims and works to hold negligent public managers accountable for the Covid19 pandemic.”

The association is organized by 13 themes, each with national coordination, as well as sections in the States and the Federal District, currently under creation. The activities range from organizing dialogues with society through a large network of social leaders to the elaboration of public policy and legislation proposals aimed at memory, justice, reparation and institutional accountability for the impacts of Covid-19 on the future of society. country.

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400,000 Deaths: Nurses perform an act in front of the Planalto Palace

On May 1, 2021, a group of nurses held an act in honor of the more than 400,000 deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil and in defense of the category's labor rights. The act took place a year after a protest held by the sector also in front of the Planalto in which protesters were harassed by pro-Jair Bolsonaro militants. The image of a nurse being assaulted was widely disseminated on social media as a representation of the political polarization surrounding the pandemic. Check out the report here. Acts like these were overshadowed by the wave of pro-government demonstrations that took place on the same day.

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500 Candles for 500 thousand

On Monday, June 21, 2021, the Respira Brasil movement held acts in several cities in the country in honor of the 500,000 lives lost to Covid-19. In each act, 500 candles were lit, each representing a thousand dead. The use of candles in place of the crosses seen in previous acts was intended to emphasize the interreligious character of the act, using a symbol accepted by various religions and even by non-religious people. The act was held in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Natal, Maceió, Campinas, Diadema, Vitoria, among other cities. The campaign uses #LutoPorMeioMilhão.

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Children Without Parents, Parents Without Children

In August 2021, the Respira Brasil collective launched a campaign that seeks to give visibility to the situation of the more than 130 thousand orphans and orphans of Covid-19. The proposal is to carry out reflection activities as well as the promotion of public policies, based on a critique of the idea that the right represents the “family”. Check out the interreligious act on August 20 on the Respira Brasil facebook page.

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Oh Public Ministry, Report Now!

Campaign led by the collective, O Candeeiro , A OAB Federal; the Movimento 342 Artes e Grupo Prerogativas; and the Association of Victims and Relatives of Victims of Covid-19 (AVICO) filed a request with the Attorney General's Office requesting a complaint to the Federal Supreme Court of crimes by the President of the Republic against Covid-19. The group understands that the president's actions represent a serious danger to society but that the impeachment process is too long and unlikely to be approved in Congress. Meanwhile, the PGR has the legal power to denounce to the Supreme Court various acts of the President of the Republic that could be judged criminal by the Supreme Court. If the Chamber of Deputies authorized the STF to open a criminal case against Bolsonaro, he would be immediately removed for a period of 180 days.

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600,000 Deaths – Flags on the Esplanada dos Ministérios

On Teacher's Day, October 15, 2021, the Association of Victims and Families of COVID 19 (AVICO), with support from the University of Brasília Teachers' Association, the Federal District Teachers Union (SINPRO-DF), Inesc and other civil society organizations, organized an act on the Esplanada dos Ministérios, in front of the National Congress. Three thousand flags were installed representing the 600 thousand dead, with the names of Covid victims. See information here , and a report here .

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Criminal Justice Network demands measures against COVID-19 in prisons and socio-educational

The Criminal Justice Network, in March 2020, published a note in which it exposes the risks for people deprived of their liberty regarding the proliferation of the coronavirus and the limitation of preventive measures in prisons and socio-educational. The organization defends the reduction of the prison population, through the extrication of the elderly, pregnant women, nursing mothers, mothers with children up to 12 years old, among others. In addition to the replacement for a less burdensome regime, privileging house arrest when applicable, the suspension of arrest warrants and preventive detention for precautionary measures, in order to contain the proliferation of the virus.

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Quarantine rooms

Quarantine Rooms campaign was created by Instituto Urbe Urges, Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil and Nossas. There are representations of the movement in several states, in addition to São Paulo, there are also in Recife and Porto Alegre . It proposes to use the vacant hotel network to guarantee social distancing to groups that are unable to achieve it. The initiative aims to pressure federal, state and municipal governments to adopt collective health measures that guarantee a real condition of social distance to families in clusters, the elderly and risk groups. Some places have already accepted the proposal, receiving the homeless population or even the elderly!

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Solidary tax reform

A group of entities focused on the tax sector proposed a solidary tax reform , which aims to promote social justice through tax progressive instruments, that is, whoever has more pays more. The main objective is that this is a mechanism to combat social inequality. The proposal involves campaigns, online petitions and various actions.

The proposal goes against others that have been put in the National Congress (PEC 45 and PEC 110) and reinforces the campaign Taxing Great Fortunes to Save Lives.

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Movements launch Zero Eviction campaign to contain actions during pandemic

Dozens of representatives of popular and social movement entities came together to launch the “Zero Eviction” campaign, in a virtual event held on July 23, 2020. They denounced repossessions and evictions that continue to happen across the country, in the midst of the crisis. and accelerated transmission of the new coronavirus (Covid-19), which took the lives of more than 84,000 Brazilians. Read here. Live about the Campaign here .

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Covid-19 Emergency

The world of philanthropy brought together, on the same platform , social investment funds and digital crowdfunding to raise money for various purposes, from social assistance actions to the purchase of equipment for hospitals and research institutions. The initiative, called “Emergency COVID-19 – Coordination of Philanthropy and Social Investment Actions in Response to the Crisis”, was coordinated by GIFE – Group of Institutes, Foundations and Companies. In 2021, GIFE published the book “Philanthropy and social investment in the pandemic: responses, learning and reflections on the future”, by Karen Polaz, which gathers data and analysis on the actions carried out in the previous year. The book can be downloaded for free here .

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Campaigns for Financial Aid

There was also a multiplication of so-called “electronic crowdfunding”, to raise funds to buy supplies and cleaning materials for the poorest communities. On the crowdfunding platforms Benfeitoria.com and Apoia.se it is possible to access several of these initiatives. There is also the page https://combatecovid.org/ , whose objective is to collect donations and give visibility to philanthropic hospitals and social organizations that are fighting COVID-19 in Brazil.

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#redeEPI

The EPI (Individual Protection Equipment) Network created, in 2020, a website whose objective was to make the connection between those who needed protective equipment and potential donors. It was an initiative of communication professionals and members of the health community. On the website, health institutions could register and present their demands.

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“Lives” allow you to see solidarity actions in real time

Many organizations are showing, in real time, solidarity actions related to the pandemic, through lives on Facebook and Instagram pages. See, for example, the live broadcast on May 1st, recorded at the Peixinhos Residents Association (PE), which publicizes the joint action of MST activists, unions and residents' associations for the distribution of food, on the Facebook page from the Brazilian Association of Community Radios .

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