In partnership with the research group NEPAC (Nucleus for Research in Participation, Social Movements and Collective Action), from Unicamp, public manifestos written by different sectors of civil society in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic were collected. Public manifests are documents collectively constructed and signed, which express and publicize the official position of a group of subjects in relation to a certain theme or issue. In this way, notes, reports, letters of repudiation, campaigns and other documents were collected, which expressed disagreement with the directions of policies to face the pandemic and its social and economic consequences and, in many cases, also suggested alternatives. The criteria used in the selection of documents were: 1. “National” or “regional” documents (texts produced at the state, municipal or community/neighborhood levels, as well as texts produced by a single regional or municipal institution were discarded); 2. Documents that are proposed or rejected aimed at State bodies or society in general. 3. Social media posts by a single individual were not included, but documents signed by collectives and/or collectively organized individuals; 4. The collection was not restricted to the most well-known social movements, initiatives were included even outside the field of social movements to perceive proximities and differences; 5. Exclusive solidarity campaigns and guidance booklets were not included. 6. Notes from physicians or specialists were discarded. The report, “Public Manifestos in Times of Covid-19”, by Ana Cláudia Teixeira and Adriana Pismel, from the NEPAC team is available here.

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Open Letter from the People of Terreiro

“We are from a tradition that does not separate reason from emotion or the political struggle from the subjectivity of being and living in fullness. For us who profess the faith of solidarity, compassion, affection and resistance, there is no way to silence our voice in the most tragic period we have lived since the enslavement of our people. The history of our country was built on black blood. It is our ethical and moral obligation to face the Bolsonaro mismanagement policy of death, in honor of the memory of struggles and resistance of our black and black heroines and heroes.” Access the text here.

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Campaign ENOUGH!

“Brazil, its institutions, its people cannot continue to be attacked by someone who, democratically anointed to the position of President of the Republic, exercises the noble mandate that was given to him to ruin the foundations of our democratic system, attempting, only time, against the Legislative and Judiciary Powers, against the Rule of Law, against the health of Brazilians, acting shamelessly, in broad daylight, incapable of showing any civic spirit or compassion for the suffering of so many.” Access the campaign petition here.

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National Campaign All Lives Are Worth!

“The Toda as Vidas Valem was launched by the National Human Rights Movement (MNDH) on May 15, 2020. The Campaign's main objective is to mobilize human rights organizations to guarantee human rights in the context of Covid-19. -19. As specific objectives, the Campaign aims to: a) organize solidarity to care for groups and segments with the greatest need for protection; b) promote actions to monitor human rights violations in the context of the pandemic; c) carry out training actions to strengthen human rights organizations. […]”. Check out the full document here.

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Manifesto Bed for All calls for unified regulation of beds by the SUS

The debate about the public health system and inequalities has been amplified in society. Because of this, the launch of the manifesto of the Unified Front for solidary public policies that guarantee, during the pandemic, universal and equal access to hospital services through SUS, is scheduled for May 13th. The document is supported by Abrasco and more than 40 entities and social movements and brings five necessary measures for the “urgent construction of an effective and solidary response to the epidemic, which saves as many lives as possible, we propose”. Check out the full manifesto here.

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Virtual March for Science

The Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC), together with its Regional Secretariats and Affiliated Scientific Societies, join forces with entities across the country linked to CT&I to carry out the Virtual March for Science in Brazil on May 7th. With activities broadcast on social media throughout the day, the purpose of the demonstration is to draw attention to the importance of science in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic and its social, economic and health implications. Access here.

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ASA reinforces civil society's appeal for guaranteeing the right to adequate food during the pandemic

The Alliance for Adequate and Healthy Food, together with more than 80 organizations, collectives and civil society entities, published an appeal for the right to health and food of Brazilians to be respected, protected and guaranteed, in the context of combating the new coronavirus. Click here to access the document.

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Against the pandemic, the solidarity option

The Platform of Social Movements for the Reform of the Political System, which brings together hundreds of organizations and movements from all over the country, calls for some immediate measures, such as the unfreezing of social spending and the suspension and restructuring of debts. Check the claims at this link .

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Proposals from popular movements to face the coronavirus crisis

Popular organizations Central dos Movimentos Populares (CMP), National Confederation of Residents' Associations (CONAM), National Movement for the Struggle for Housing (MNLM), Movement of Workers and Workers for Rights (MTD), Movement for Struggle for Neighborhoods and Favelas ( MLB) and the National Union for Popular Housing (UNMP) propose the adoption of some immediate measures in order to overcome the economic and social crisis in the country. Check it out here .

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Organizations in Portugal launch the international campaign “Covid-19 – SOS Indigenous Peoples of Brazil”

“Indians of Brazil are being decimated by the arrival of Covid 19, associated with the lack of health care and protection of territories by the State. The complaint is made by the traditional communities themselves that launch campaigns with requests for support throughout Brazil. To give visibility to local initiatives and facilitate foreign donations, the International Campaign “Covid19 – SOS Indigenous Peoples of Brazil” will be launched this Sunday (2/8).” Download the document here.

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Solidarity, democracy and peace to face the COVID-19 pandemic

“The MESA for the Articulation of National Associations and NGO Networks from Latin America and the Caribbean, an entity that brings together thousands of civil society organizations, comes to the public to express its concern about the direction that the actions that several national States are taking to face the epidemic of the coronavirus virus (COVID-19) on our continent.” Access the full note here.

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For our lives, our territories, our bodies, our rights in front of Covid 19

“The women of the Amazon basin and the sisters of Latin America and the Caribbean are facing a systematic and growing threat to our lives since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic as a consequence of the historical inequalities that the patriarchal neoliberal capitalist colonial system seeks perpetuate in the face of the indifference of the States to those that are not important in our lives.” Access the full document here.

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May 1 – In defense of democracy – a new world is possible!

In 2020, the main trade union centrals came together to celebrate Labor Day and Worker's Day. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, for the first time, the fraternization was virtual. Organizing union centers: CUT, CSB, CGTB, CTB, Força Sindical, Intersindical, NCST, Public Central do Servidor and UGT. See here .

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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