“I want to be able to stay at home” campaign
In Belém do Pará, the “Solidarity Committee for Students and Mothers in Social Vulnerability – I want to be able to stay at home! – is built by the hands of many, many activists from the student, union and feminist movement. The initiative was designed by the @afrontepa and @resistenciafeministapa movements, but with the aim of being much bigger! […]
“For the Life of Our Mothers”
Children of maids launched the letter “For the lives of our mothers”, addressed not only to the authorities, but to all civil society: “when we see that our family members who are domestic workers and day laborers continue to work normally, we emphasize the emergency to comply with the stipulated quarantine by the authorities and we demand paid leave”. Discover the Manifesto Letter here.
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 #FiqueEmCasa #maesdafavela
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 […]
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.
National Strike of Application Deliverers
App delivery service workers held a nationwide strike on July 1, 2020 in Brazil. The call material for participation in the strike, both for delivery people and users of delivery applications, was published on the Twitter and Facebook accounts of “Treta No Trampo“.
#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 arrive […]
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.
Kanindé Ethnoenvironmental Defense Association
The Kanindé Ethnoenvironmental Defense Association, a civil society organization created in 1992 in Rondônia, created a page explaining the importance of helping indigenous peoples to face the pandemic: “Due to the New Coronavirus pandemic, the situation of indigenous peoples, who It was already very difficult, it got even worse. Many villages depend on the sale of their […]
