The pandemic created the need to adapt our forms of communication and mobilization. It is a singular crisis in comparison with previous periods, as it had in contrast the infinite possibilities that the virtual world offers. One of the main forms of communication, mobilization and debate used by civil society in this context were the so-called “Lives”, which became popular from April 2020. This page presents some examples of the more than one hundred lives mapped by Resocie. We selected only those that had the participation of civil society actors to discuss some aspect of the pandemic.
On September 16, 2020, Fiocruz promoted a live with the theme "Indigenous health in a time of pandemic". The event was attended by Rita Bacuri, Carmem Pankararu, João Paulo Tukano, Fabiane Santos. Access here.
The Marcha das Margaridas organized the series of lives 'Prose of Daisies in times of a pandemic'. Broadcast live on FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE and PORTAL DA CONTAG, it addressed topics related to the political axes of the Political Platform of the Marcha das Margaridas. They are important contents and reflections about the problems and social, economic and political issues that, as a whole, have been affecting the lives of women.
In its fifth episode, the series discussed 'Territorial Rights and Commons: Struggle and Resistance'. This Live will have the moderation of Mazé Morais, family farmer, secretary of women at CONTAG and general coordinator of the 6th March of Daisies. The guests were: Maria Emilia Pacheco – FASE Advisor – Solidarity and Education, and member of the Executive Nuclei of the National Agroecology Articulation (ANA) and the Brazilian Forum on Food and Nutrition Sovereignty and Security (FBSSAN), Sandra Maria da Silva Andrade – Director of the Federation of Quilombola Communities of Minas Gerais (N'Golo), Executive Coordinator of the National Coordination of Articulation of Rural Black Quilombola Communities (CONAQ), and resident of Quilombo Carrapatos, in Tabatinga/MG, Helena Gomes da Silva – Movement Coordinator Interstate of the Quebradeiras de Coco Babaçu (MIQCB) regional Piauí, Cristiane Julião Pankararu – Anthropologist, integrates APOINME, APIB and collective Voz das Mulheres Indígenas. Access here.
The Covid-19 Observatory in Quilombos is an online platform that gathers epidemiological data on the new coronavirus pandemic among quilombolas from all over Brazil. The monitoring, carried out by the National Coordination of Articulation of Rural Black Quilombola Communities (Conaq) and by the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA), presents monitored, confirmed cases and deaths resulting from Covid-19 among quilombolas.
The Observatory was launched in a live, held on May 28, 2020, with the participation of Jurema Werneck, Milene Maia and Sandra Andrade. Access here.
On June 17, 2020, sociologist Paulo Ramos, coordinator of the Reconexão Periferias project, spoke with Leila Borari, coordinator of the Association of Suraras do Tapajós Indigenous Women, about the pandemic and indigenous peoples. Access here.
Sonia Guajajara, one of the most important Brazilian indigenous leaders today, spoke on August 7, 2020 with reporters André Barrocal and Felipe Milanez, about the struggles of indigenous peoples against the new coronavirus pandemic. In that conversation, she linked the challenges faced in the context of the pandemic to the attacks perpetrated by the government of Jair Bolsonaro on the rights of indigenous peoples. Access here.
The Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) held a “live in solidarity” on December 1, 2020, with the theme “Indigenous Women on the Move”. The live featured Ana Paula Sabino, Hamangai Pataxó and Indiana Petsirei O Dumhive, among others. Access here.
The UOL Debate of 04/24/2020 brought together community representatives to discuss the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic in the country's slums. Anna Karla Pereira, co-founder of Frente Favela Brasil; Christiane Teixeira, community leader from Coroadinho (MA); Gilson Rodrigues, community leader from Paraisópolis (SP) and Isabela Souza, director of Observatório das Favelas. Bianca Santana, columnist for ECOA, mediates. Access here.
Labor lawyer Antonio Carlos Carvalho, consultant for the Perseu Abramo Foundation, talks to Sorriso, an app delivery man, about delivery people and the pandemic (July 8, 2020). Access here.
This live discusses the initiatives and challenges faced by social and community organizations in the face of the pandemic, during the first months of 2020. It is a conversation with Marcivan Barreto, state president of CUFA - Central Única das Favelas, Anabela Gonçalves, president of Associação Cultura Bloco do Beco, federal deputy Orlaldo Silva and Wagner Silva (Guinea), coordinator of the Development Strategy of the Tide Setubal Foundation.
Theme: social and community organizations facing the effects of the pandemic. Access the live video here.
The coronavirus has had even more devastating effects on quilombola communities, where health services are lacking and lethality is high. To give visibility to this situation and discuss ways out, activists and organizations made several lives. In one of the first lives, organized on June 4, 2020, CONAQ's executive secretary, Selma Dealdiana, and jurist Deborah Duprat address the topic, with support from Oxfam Brasil. Watch here .
Periferia em Foco, a popular communication collective, focusing on the Periphery of Greater Belém do Pará, promoted lives to discuss the impacts of the pandemic in the most diverse areas. The information is on the initiative's social networks
The theme of the struggles of street vendors during the pandemic was the theme of a live promoted by the Gaspar Garcia Center for Human Rights . Access the video recording here.
