During the pandemic, an important part of civil society actions were carried out virtually, driven by the need for isolation and distancing. Organizations and individuals began to use more and better digital tools for activism. Below are some examples of digital activism against the pandemic and in favor of life. See also the Repository Research Reports on the topic.

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Vaccine for everyone now

Mobilizations in favor of the vaccine were very important on social media, especially throughout 2021. This is the case of the tweet called by various public entities and people on February 24, 2021, which used the hashtag #VacinaParaTodosJá. Also check out the live from the Vaccine Campaign for All Now .

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Virtual act: Defending the Amazon is defending life

The virtual act “Defending the Amazon is defending life” was promoted by an articulation of organizations that work in the nine states of the Amazon region: Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB), Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), Via Campesina, Ninja Media, Terra de Direitos, National Council of Christian Churches in Brazil, Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network, International Rivers and Friends of the Earth. The act brought together community leaders in testimonies and cultural actions to celebrate September 5: Amazon Day. Access 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 .

Communication in Times of Isolation

Communication in times of isolation was a chat about technology as a tool to communicate and the fight against fake news, held on 07/16/2020. The following participated in the debate: Roni Barbosa – Communications Secretary at CUT Brasil, Natália Bonavides – Federal Deputy | PT-RN and Paulo Salvador – Rede Brasil Atual.

Solidarity Alliances for Emergency Aid

To talk about what solidary alliances were during the pandemic, what their limits and potential were, the Transe Hub channel held a live, on 08/27/2020, with the participation of Victor Hugo Viegas, member of Transe, and Zé Antônio – activist who did digital ethnography in dozens of facebook and whatsapp groups for mutual aid during the most intense period of mobilization in search of help. See here .

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Violence: Impacts of the Pandemic on Women's Lives

The Periferia Viva Solidarity Campaign organized a live on August 3, 2020, to discuss the profound impacts of the pandemic on women, inside and outside the home. The meeting had the participation of Débora Diniz, an anthropologist professor at the University of Brasília, and Isis Menezes Táboas, from Popular Consultation. Eliane Martins, Campaign coordinator, coordinates the debate. In the presentation, she argues, on the theme of the use of social media by the movements: “we are also kind of young here in this Internet story, so we are still a little confused, because our beach was not that virtual one, our beach was – still is – face-to-face… (we are) learning to deal with this space” (minute 10). Access here. To watch other lives organized by the Campaign, see the Facebook page .

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Social and community organizations facing the effects of COVID-19

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.

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#BudgetForLife

Many organizations have launched initiatives to ensure that the federal budget prioritizes fighting the pandemic. On July 14, 2021, they organized the tweet #BudgetSemPovoNuncaMais. In addition, to mobilize for the National Congress to guarantee resources for vaccines: “Vaccines against Covid-19 bring us hope, but there is a great challenge for them to reach all people. The National Congress needs to act fast to protect the population. … The National Congress needs to approve the Emergency Floor in the 2021 Budget, which will guarantee resources for health, social assistance, education and food security in this pandemic year”. Access here.

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Change the Game to Beat COVID-19 Campaign

The Campaign was organized in 2021, around a “chain of good” on digital platforms. The idea is for each influencer to tag two profiles with which they have an affinity, using the hashtags #MudarOJogo and #Agenda2030paraVencerACovid. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development refers to an action plan, negotiated within the framework of the United Nations, which places the eradication of poverty and the reduction of inequalities as global challenges and indispensable requirements for sustainable development. Brazil and 192 other countries that make up the United Nations (UN) have committed to implementing the 2030 Agenda. The initiative for this Campaign is from the Civil Society Working Group for the 2030 Agenda (GT Agenda 2030).

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Vaccinated Testimonials

A collective of volunteers created the platform https://www.vacinadxs.com/ , in order to help the vaccination campaign. In short videos , people who have already been immunized give an account of their experience. As the organizers themselves say: “With spontaneous and authentic narratives, we want to celebrate the beginning of immunization and expand information to all those who feel insecure or anxious about the effects of vaccines”. They are individuals from various parts of the country, who have taken different types of vaccines and make an appeal for everyone to protect themselves.

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The pandemic and quilombola communities

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 .

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Marajó Observatory

The Marajó Observatory works to build social technologies that serve the population, especially the Marajoara population, to guide the public agenda and political processes based on knowledge and information. The Observatory launched an initiative to provide data on the social context of the region and each of the municipalities, entitled Cadernos do Marajó, Special Edition – 40 days of Marajó with Coronavirus. The Notebook and other information can be accessed via the link .

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We for Ourselves: Activists from the Peripheries Talk about their Actions

In times of pandemic, new digital technologies are being used intensively by communication groups and other organizations on the periphery, to present demands, disseminate opinions, exchange ideas. It is possible to access the various interviews, lives and podcasts that have been made by the activists themselves. See, for example:

Interview with Preto Zezé , National President of Central Única das Favelas.

Videos that talk about the Paraisópolis (SP) experience, here and here .

Podcast “ Quarantena “, from Agência Mural de Jornalismo das Periferias and Podcast Lugar de Quarentena , from the communication collective ARQUEPerifa .

Rádio Ação Paramita Conversation Circle, “ Favela, Self-organization and Covid-19 ”.

Thiago Vinícius, from Agência Popular Solano Trindade, a collective located on the outskirts of Campo Limpo (South Zone of SP), Roberta Rodrigues (Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro), Max Maciel (Projeto Ruas, Ceilândia, DF), Neila Gomes (Movimento pela Moradia , Belém), among others, are interviewed about their actions against the pandemic.

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#FightAtHome petitions against coronavirus

During the pandemic, the website change.org launched more than 500 petitions online , created as a form of mobilization to demand quick measures and assistance from the authorities. They are on different topics, such as cancellation of classes, postponement of events and temporary suspension of tax payments. To see some of the petitions click here . To see the campaign video, which argues in favor of this type of “couch activism” in the context of a pandemic, click here .

In Favor of Postponing ENEM

One of the most important digital campaigns of 2020 was the one that demanded the postponement of the ENEM tests, with the hashtags #AdiaEnem and #AdiaEnem2020.

Against Gender Violence

There are several reports on the increase in domestic violence against women in a context of social isolation. Many groups and collectives made videos without sound – to protect the women who access it – in which the participants carried posters with information on where to get help, as well as messages of solidarity. See, for example, the MOVIElas Instagram .

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Against Police Violence

The Genocide Protection and Resistance Network created the “Fala Quebrada” campaign, in which, through an online form, it made it possible to denounce actions of rights violations during the pandemic. In the form , it is possible to identify who performed the action, insert images and geolocation.

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App Against Misinformation

Voz das Comunidades, a newspaper created by residents of Complexo do Alemão (RJ) in 2005, launched an application for cell phones, whose objective is to “fight misinformation about COVID-19”. The newspaper identified the demand, on the part of residents of Rio de Janeiro communities, for reliable sources of information in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. See more information on the newspaper's website .

March for Science 2020

On May 7, 2020, the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC) held the Virtual March for Science.

Throughout the day, activities were broadcast on social media, with the aim of drawing attention to the importance of science in the fight against COVID-19. The University of Brasília, as well as other universities and research centers, joined this initiative. The video of the call can be viewed above.

Other online protests

In addition to the protests mentioned in other posts on this page, we made a list (certainly incomplete) of some of the main protest hashtags used in the first year of the pandemic:

  • #CoronaNasPeriferias
  • #COVID19NasFavelas
  • #CUFAcontraovirus
  • #Favelacontravirus
  • #PagaLogoBolsonaro
  • #CoronNasPerifas
  • #Covid19nasPeriferias
  • #CovidNasFavelas
  • #Covid19PeriferiasBelem
  • #covid19nafaveladoaço
  • #JacarezinhoContraOCoronavirus
  • #DiarioDeUmFaveladoNaPandemia
  • #CoronaNasPeriferiasEFavelas
  • #Stay at home
  • #maesdafavela
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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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#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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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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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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In Santo André, residents use WhatsApp and videos to inform about Covid-19 in the favelas

The Communities Committee is a WhatsApp group that seeks to bring more information about the coronavirus to peripheral neighborhoods in the municipality of Santo André, in São Paulo. The initiative was created by the MDDF (Movimento de Defesa dos Favelados) with the aim of organizing a virtual network with residents and community leaders who represent the municipality's favelas, in addition to outlining topics discussed in the group. The full article can be accessed through the link .

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