[Fdu] National Women's Studies Assoc Statement Against Brazilian State Violence and Repression

Wed Nov 28 15:52:02 EST 2018

See below for this important statement.

November 15th, 2018 
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Dear NWSA Community,

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.

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.

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:

https://nacla.org/news/2018/11/06/specter-dictatorship-brazil 
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45829440 
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https://www.democracynow.org/2018/10/31/as_bolsonaro_threatens_to_criminalize_protests 
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https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/bolsonaro-gender-ideology-hegemonic-masculinity-brazil-181031062523759.html 
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https://www.alternet.org/world/bolsonaro-brazil-slayer-amazon 
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https://newint.org/features/2018/11/06/did-brazil%E2%80%99s-evangelicals-put-jair-bolsonaro-office 
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https://www.liberationnews.org/brazil-ninguem-solta-a-mao-de-ninguem-no-one-let-go-of-anyones-hand/ 
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https://libya360.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/brazil-bill-re-introduced-criminalizing-social-movements-as-terrorists/ 
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https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/at-what-cost/ 
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https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/07/brazil-police-killings-of-black-youths-continue-25-years-after-the-candelaria-massacre/ 
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http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/reports/pdfs/violencelgbtipersons.pdf 
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Premilla Nadasen, President, Barnard College
Barbara Ransby, Past President, University of Illinois – Chicago
Diane Harriford, Vice President, Vassar College
Patti Duncan, Secretary, Oregon State University
Karma Chávez, Treasurer, The University of Texas at Austin
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