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This report analyzes the actions of Brazilian feminist movements in defending the right to abortion during the Covid-19 pandemic. The objective is to understand how these movements operated during a time of instability and uncertainty; whether abortion remained a priority issue for them; and what actions were taken to defend this cause. It was found that this period of health crisis impacted the actions of feminist movements. Issues that became more urgent, such as hunger and the increase in violence against women, shared space with the debate on abortion. At this time, the use of the internet was essential to disseminate the position of these organizations against the setbacks of the Federal Government, especially those related to abortion.
2022
The eighth report shows how, under the far-right government of Jair Bolsonaro and in the midst of a pandemic, social movements achieved the unprecedented feat of preventing evictions from irregular settlements with the approval of a law in the National Congress and a favorable decision in the Supreme Federal Court. This achievement is the result of an unprecedented union of rural and urban movements around the Zero Eviction Campaign and coordinated action between grassroots resistance and an effective advocacy strategy with political institutions.
2022
This report analyzes the actions of Brazilian feminist movements in defending the right to abortion during the Covid-19 pandemic. The objective is to understand how these movements operated during a time of instability and uncertainty; whether abortion remained a priority issue for them; and what actions were taken to defend this cause. It was found that this period of health crisis impacted the actions of feminist movements. Issues that became more urgent, such as hunger and the increase in violence against women, shared space with the debate on abortion. At this time, the use of the internet was essential to disseminate the position of these organizations against the setbacks of the Federal Government, especially those related to abortion.
2022
The sixth research report from the Repository of Civil Society Initiatives against the Pandemic, authored by Anthony Toscano Tubbs, highlights that the impacts of increased interactions on digital media bring new scenarios, problems, and paradigms to be faced. The COVID-19 pandemic expanded the uses of digital technologies and, at least for a period, these became the only possible channel of interaction for some social, economic, and political dynamics.
In this context, platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and 4chan were flooded with social and political mobilizations of scientific denialists. At the same time, scientists sought in these spaces ways to present actions to combat this misinformation. This report seeks to examine these science activists.
2022
The fifth research report from the Repository of Civil Society Initiatives against the Pandemic, authored by Mariana Fonseca, presents an analysis of mobilizations carried out in urban peripheries during the pandemic, especially those focused on peripheral communication. The report relies primarily on data systematized in this Repository and collected between March 2020 and December 2021. The objective is to highlight the variety of practices and forms of action developed by different social movements, collectives, or even new organizations created during the pandemic. In particular, the initiatives carried out by communication and/or cultural collectives from the peripheries demonstrate that the production of quality and reliable information during the pandemic was fundamental.
2021
The fourth research report from the Repository of Civil Society Initiatives against the Pandemic, authored by Ananda Cruz, presents an analysis of the importance of Indigenous digital activism during the pandemic. More specifically, it analyzes the #vacinaparente campaign, launched in January 2021 by the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB). The campaign is part of the Indigenous Emergency plan, which aims to develop political, judicial, and communication articulation actions. Three communication strategies are used to disseminate the campaign on APIB's Instagram page: the first is to clarify the general public about the vaccine issue; the second is specifically aimed at the Indigenous public; and the third is a critique of political authorities for their management of the pandemic.
2021
The third research report from the Repository of Civil Society Initiatives against the Pandemic addresses the impacts of the pandemic on pressure exerted on the federal legislative branch. Faced with the need for social isolation and following the trend of most countries, parliament closed its doors and, to continue functioning amidst the pandemic, adopted remote sessions and deliberations. While these actions enabled the development of solutions for the remote deliberation of bills, they ended up affecting the participation of civil society in parliamentary debates. This report examines the use of digital media as a mechanism of pressure on the federal legislative branch, for example through online petitions, both for the approval of laws, as in the case of emergency aid, and to encourage the legislature to act, as in requests to postpone the ENEM (National High School Exam).
2020
The second research report from the Repository of Civil Society Initiatives against the Pandemic addresses the impacts of the pandemic on digital activism. The author argues that there is a digital shift in the actions of civil society organizations. In part, this is due to the simple fact that actors are using digital resources more. More importantly, however, there is a deeper process of transformation, shown in this Report through examples of diversification, adaptation, and the creation of bridges between the face-to-face and digital arenas. This transformation is incipient and highly uneven, but the Report shows that the perception of civil society actors regarding the potential of digital activism has changed in the context of the pandemic, especially in the cases of those actors who had to face the obstacles of digital exclusion and digital literacy.
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