On this page we present actions that seek to join forces and mobilize social movements and the community to consolidate campaign mechanisms in different ways to guarantee resources and ways to contribute to saving lives. They are events, projects and actions that unite political acts and solidarity in different campaigns to help fight the pandemic.

More than 600,000 Brazilians died as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. As the national and international community is aware, a significant part of these deaths was caused by the Federal Government's decision to defy science and despise the lives of the Brazilian population, putting at risk those it had a duty to protect.

The worsening of social, economic and psychological conditions resulting from the absence of adequate public policies to contain the disease has frayed the social fabric and thrown thousands of Brazilians to their own fate. The Women Scientists Network was created in order to bring debates and scientific productions, manifestos and initiatives produced by women scientists about/in the context of the pandemic, in addition to offering a support network at a time that was known to be more painful for women. . Access here.

reXistência.coletiva is a social activism initiative that is part of a network of graduate academics and professors at different universities in Brazil.

The group offers online courses for complementary training, whose income in registration fees was 100% donated to organizations that assist trans, black and indigenous communities. Access more information here.

#TVPeriferiaEmFoco accompanied on the island of Cotijuba, in Belém, the solidarity action in the face of Covid-19 with the riverside families of Pará. The solidarity effort is part of the national campaign “We are Ready” which has already served more than 740,000 people in Brazil. In Pará, the campaign was integrated with the Central de Movimentos Populares – CMP through the “COVID 19: SOLIDARITY IN THE AMAZON” Campaign, an initiative aimed at assisting families from riverside communities, quilombolas, indigenous people and the outskirts of cities, who are experiencing financial difficulties and have been suffering from the economic crisis and unemployment.

The actions take place in partnership with the Brazilian Red Cross – Pará, SEBRAE, UNICEF, FORD, Natura, Citizenship Action, Military Fire Brigade, Brazilian Navy and other public bodies together with organized civil society. Access the video here.

The Mandacaru Project is a voluntary collaboration platform, in which the combination of the parties intended to generate a much greater result to face the coronavirus pandemic.

Students, professors, scientists, health professionals, exact or human contributed in the most diverse ways: disseminating information based on science, fighting fake news, sharing scientific articles related to Covid-19 (protocols, treatments, equipment, techniques), sharing projects, contributing with analysis, and influencing public policies to improve society. Access the channel here.

Covid in Prisons is an initiative that provides information to mothers and family members, publicizes important lawsuits in this context and legislation that supports the rights of people deprived of their liberty. During the pandemic, he also followed the cases of the disease in institutions of deprivation of liberty in Brazil.

The Emergency Fund for Health was encouraged through the Abrace a Saúde campaign, which aimed to draw attention to public health. The action made it possible to make donations directly to the Fund, which allocated them to entities that were on the front line in the fight against the pandemic.

The donation can also be reversed in rapid tests produced by Fiocruz, disposable masks, respirators and hospital bed among other essential items to fight the pandemic and serve patients.

The “Undocublack” Network, created in 2006 in Mimi with the aim of protecting the human rights of black immigrants, used its social media to publicize a series of actions in support of these communities.

Various entities – such as the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), the Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns Human Rights Defense Commission, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), the Brazilian Association of Press (ABI) and the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC) – came together to defend the Pact for Life and for Brazil.

The Pact is in defense of prevention and containment measures to slow down the transmission of the coronavirus and its contagion, and the search for solutions that aim at the common good and, in particular, the poorest and most vulnerable.

Initiative created to allow people with symptoms of COVID-19 and without medical insurance or resources for private medical care to be assisted by volunteers.

The COVID-19 Mission connected volunteer doctors with people with symptoms, they register and quickly a doctor gets in touch and conducts a free consultation online.

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 .

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.

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!

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.