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                                                          onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://nwsa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6656660936b1ddfc7120dc054&id=b478e49ae5&e=f9838a9e23"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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normal;text-decoration: underline;" moz-do-not-send="true">November
                                                          15th, 2018</a><br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          Dear NWSA
                                                          Community,<br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          We are
                                                          shocked,
                                                          appalled, and
                                                          saddened by
                                                          the recent
                                                          turn of events
                                                          in Brazil
                                                          which is
                                                          nothing short
                                                          of a near
                                                          total erosion
                                                          of the
                                                          Brazilian
                                                          democratic
                                                          project. We
                                                          join our
                                                          colleagues
                                                          from the
                                                          Social
                                                          Sciences and
                                                          Humanities in
                                                          Brazil in
                                                          condemning the
                                                          State’s moves
                                                          to repress the
                                                          free
                                                          expression of
                                                          ideas within
                                                          Brazilian
                                                          universities.
                                                          We repudiate
                                                          attempts to
                                                          criminalize as
                                                          “terrorism”
                                                          political and
                                                          activist
                                                          organizations
                                                          such as the
                                                          Landless
                                                          Workers
                                                          Movement (MST)
                                                          and the
                                                          land-titled
                                                          Indigenous and
                                                          former maroon
                                                          communities
                                                          (called
                                                          Quilombolas).
                                                          We repudiate
                                                          the attacks on
                                                          public
                                                          education in
                                                          which teachers
                                                          who refuse
                                                          only to teach
                                                          creationism
                                                          are being
                                                          charged with
                                                          “Marxist
                                                          indoctrination.”
                                                          We repudiate
                                                          the
                                                          persecution of
                                                          LGBTQI,
                                                          Feminist and
                                                          Black scholars
                                                          throughout
                                                          Brazil’s
                                                          public
                                                          education
                                                          system,
                                                          including
                                                          higher
                                                          education.   <br>
                                                           <br>
                                                          We condemn the
                                                          incoming
                                                          government’s
                                                          objective of
                                                          supporting
                                                          violence
                                                          against Black,
                                                          LGBTQI, and
                                                          Indigenous
                                                          citizens
                                                          through
                                                          allowing
                                                          (nearly)
                                                          unrestricted
                                                          gun sales to
                                                          begin after
                                                          January 1,
                                                          2019, and to
                                                          protect
                                                          perpetuators
                                                          of violence
                                                          through a
                                                          promise of
                                                          legal
                                                          non-prosecution.
                                                          387 killings
                                                          targeting
                                                          Brazil’s
                                                          LGBTQI
                                                          communities
                                                          were
                                                          perpetrated in
                                                          2017, making
                                                          Brazil one of
                                                          the most
                                                          hostile
                                                          countries in
                                                          the world for
                                                          LGBTQI people.
                                                          Brazil is a
                                                          world leader
                                                          in the murder
                                                          of human
                                                          rights and
                                                          environmental
                                                          defenders. The
                                                          high-profile
                                                          public,
                                                          extra-judicial
                                                          murder of Rio
                                                          de Janeiro
                                                          council woman
                                                          Marielle
                                                          Franco, a
                                                          beloved and
                                                          highly
                                                          respected
                                                          Black Lesbian
                                                          Feminist and
                                                          mother, is an
                                                          example of how
                                                          quickly things
                                                          have
                                                          deteriorated
                                                          in Brazil
                                                          within the
                                                          last year. In
                                                          this context
                                                          of unchecked
                                                          groups of
                                                          ex-military
                                                          and police
                                                          vigilantes
                                                          assassinating
                                                          Brown, Black,
                                                          and LGBTQI
                                                          youth, the
                                                          promise to
                                                          implement
                                                          additional
                                                          laws, such as
                                                          those
                                                          providing
                                                          police the
                                                          right to shoot
                                                          to kill
                                                          civilians
                                                          without
                                                          prosecution,
                                                          will
                                                          exponentially
                                                          increase the
                                                          murder rate of
                                                          these
                                                          populations.<br>
                                                           <br>
                                                          Given the lack
                                                          of media
                                                          coverage of
                                                          this crisis,
                                                          which is
                                                          largely a
                                                          result of a
                                                          global veiling
                                                          of Brazil
                                                          behind the
                                                          mask of
                                                          Carnival and
                                                          “racial
                                                          democracy," we
                                                          encourage our
                                                          members to
                                                          establish
                                                          networks of
                                                          solidarity
                                                          while
                                                          educating
                                                          themselves
                                                          about this
                                                          dire political
                                                          crisis that is
                                                          unfolding as
                                                          you read this.
                                                          The following
                                                          are some links
                                                          to begin
                                                          learning about
                                                          the current
                                                          crisis:<br>
                                                           <br>
                                                          <a
                                                          onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://nwsa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6656660936b1ddfc7120dc054&id=b654ad70ef&e=f9838a9e23"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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                                                          #00ADD8;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;" moz-do-not-send="true">https://nacla.org/news/2018/11/06/specter-dictatorship-brazil</a><br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          <a
                                                          onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://nwsa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6656660936b1ddfc7120dc054&id=5d7b4f7999&e=f9838a9e23"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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                                                          #00ADD8;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45829440</a><br>
                                                           <br>
                                                          <a
                                                          onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://nwsa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6656660936b1ddfc7120dc054&id=5218766bdf&e=f9838a9e23"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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normal;text-decoration: underline;" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.democracynow.org/2018/10/31/as_bolsonaro_threatens_to_criminalize_protests</a> <br>
                                                           <br>
                                                          <a
                                                          onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://nwsa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6656660936b1ddfc7120dc054&id=ffeb25733d&e=f9838a9e23"
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normal;text-decoration: underline;" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/bolsonaro-gender-ideology-hegemonic-masculinity-brazil-181031062523759.html</a><br>
                                                           <br>
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                                                          100%;color:
                                                          #00ADD8;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.alternet.org/world/bolsonaro-brazil-slayer-amazon</a><br>
                                                           <br>
                                                          <a
                                                          onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://nwsa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6656660936b1ddfc7120dc054&id=b7dc968cd7&e=f9838a9e23"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;color:
                                                          #00ADD8;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;" moz-do-not-send="true">https://newint.org/features/2018/11/06/did-brazil%E2%80%99s-evangelicals-put-jair-bolsonaro-office</a><br>
                                                           <br>
                                                          <a
                                                          onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://nwsa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6656660936b1ddfc7120dc054&id=f735ea040c&e=f9838a9e23"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;color:
                                                          #00ADD8;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.liberationnews.org/brazil-ninguem-solta-a-mao-de-ninguem-no-one-let-go-of-anyones-hand/</a><br>
                                                           <br>
                                                          <a
                                                          onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://nwsa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6656660936b1ddfc7120dc054&id=1fc11af1d9&e=f9838a9e23"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;color:
                                                          #00ADD8;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;" moz-do-not-send="true">https://libya360.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/brazil-bill-re-introduced-criminalizing-social-movements-as-terrorists/</a><br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          <a
                                                          onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://nwsa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6656660936b1ddfc7120dc054&id=aa7db393d8&e=f9838a9e23"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;color:
                                                          #00ADD8;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/at-what-cost/</a><br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          <a
                                                          onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://nwsa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6656660936b1ddfc7120dc054&id=3addb0b5c0&e=f9838a9e23"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;color:
                                                          #00ADD8;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/07/brazil-police-killings-of-black-youths-continue-25-years-after-the-candelaria-massacre/</a><br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          <a
                                                          onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://nwsa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6656660936b1ddfc7120dc054&id=2dcd6b6f6d&e=f9838a9e23"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;color:
                                                          #00ADD8;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/reports/pdfs/violencelgbtipersons.pdf</a><br>
                                                          <br>
                                                           <br>
                                                          SIGNED by the
                                                          EC with
                                                          affiliations*<br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          Premilla
                                                          Nadasen,
                                                          President,
                                                          Barnard
                                                          College<br>
                                                          Barbara
                                                          Ransby, Past
                                                          President,
                                                          University of
                                                          Illinois –
                                                          Chicago<br>
                                                          Diane
                                                          Harriford,
                                                          Vice
                                                          President,
                                                          Vassar College<br>
                                                          Patti Duncan,
                                                          Secretary,
                                                          Oregon State
                                                          University<br>
                                                          Karma Chávez,
                                                          Treasurer, The
                                                          University of
                                                          Texas at
                                                          Austin</div>
                                                          <div
                                                          style="text-align:
                                                          left;">(*affiliations
                                                          for
                                                          identification
                                                          purposes only)</div>
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