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Dia da Consciência Negra
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Day of the Negra Conscience
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The Day of the Black Conscience, 20 of November, will be holiday in 225, of a total of 5.561 cities of the country, according to survey of the Special Secretariat of Politics of Promotion of the Racial Equality. The date, that will be celebrated in hundreds of events for the country, remembers the day where it was assassinated, in 1695, the leader I buzzed, of the Quilombo of the Palmares, one of the main symbols of the black resistance to the slavery.

Text published in the page of the Seppir, on agency to the Presidency of the Republic, explains this history. In 1971, activist of Grupo Palmares, of the Rio Grande Do Sul, they had 1971 arrived at the conclusion of that 20 of November had been the date of execution of Buzzed and establish-in as Day Of the Black Conscience. Seven years later, the Unified Black Movement incorporated the date as national celebration. In 2003, law 10,639, sancionada for president Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, established the date as part of the Brazilian pertaining to school calendar.

“We inherit the intentions of Luiza Mahin, Ganga Zumba and legions of men and black women who if had rebelled to an oppression system. They had launched hand of its lives if to conform with the physical arrest and of thought ", it says the text, signed for the minister of the Seppir, Matilde Ribeiro. Mahin Luiza was mother of the journalist and black lawyer Luis Gamma, one of the leaders of the referring to abolitionism movement, in century 19. Ganga Zumba was another leader of Palmares.

“Proud, we exaltamos our African origin and we authenticate the unit of fight for the information freedom, religious and cultural manifestation. We search greater participation and citizenship for the afro-Brazilians and in we associate them with other groups to say not to racism, to the discrimination and to the racial preconception ", she continues the minister, in the text.

“That this 20 of November, as well as all the others, either of much festividade, joy and renews our energies to continue our trajectory for conquest of rights and equality of chances. Let us be all, men and black women, irmanados in this walked by the freedom and the conscience of the wealth of the racial diversity? , it concludes.

The 20 of November were instituted as it dates of reference for the movement in contraposition to the 13 of May, when the abolition of the slavery was intentionally, the call Golden Law, for the princess Isabel, in 1888. The 13 of express May, then, the celebration of the generosity of a white in relation to the blacks, instead of emphasizing the proper fight of the blacks for its release.

The Day of the Black Conscience is marked by manifestations, walks and seminaries in some Brazilian cities. According to site of the Seppir, the state where more cities had decreed the holiday date is Rio De Janeiro, with 92 cities.

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Brasil é campeão em mortes violentas, aponta estudo do Ipea
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Brazil is champion in violent deaths, points study of the Ipea
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The Ipea (Institudo de Advanced Economic Pesquisas) compared the development of the countries of the Bric (Brazil, Russia, India and China), South Africa, United States, Finlândia, Spain, Germany, Mexico and Argentina and evidenced that of these, only Brazil, South Africa, Mexico and Germany had reduced income inaqualities enter the 1990 workers the 2005.

The study “Development and Compared International Experiences” were presented yesterday in the headquarters of the Ipea, in Brasilia, and also showed that in ten of the 11 countries, the cardiovascular illnesses and the diverse types of cancer are the main causes of death. With exception of the South Africa, where the AIDS goes off. In India, the parasitic and infectious illnesses are distinguished. Brazil is the first one in violent deaths; Germany, the last one.

The biggest per capita GIP is of the North Americans, but optimum performance in last the 30 years was of the Chinese, who had multiplied for ten the per capita GIP since 1975, points the Ipea. Later they come the Indians, whom they had tripled; followed for Germans, Finnish, Spaniard and Americans who, in the same period, had almost folded its PIBs for inhabitant. In Latin America, Argentina registers the biggest per capita GIP, but Mexico had the biggest growth in the three decades.

Advance in the education

In the Brazilian data what it calls the attention is the referring numbers to the education. No matter how hard it has had an advance in this area, Brazil still is very on this side of the waited one, in the evaluation of Milko Matijascic, director of the Ipea in the IPC (International Center of Poverty) and coordinator of the research. The index of Brazilian alfabetização was of 78%, in 1985, for 89% in 2005. China, however, had an advance more clearly, going of 69% for 91% in the same period.

According to data of Pisa, that measures the performance of reading in the selected countries, more than 80% of the Brazilians do not have capacity of reading of an adequate level and 90% almost do not have in mathematical terms. In the Korea of the south for example, about 20% it does not have the capacity adjusted in mathematics and reading.

“Korea had levels of illiteracy very raised in years 70, and today he is one of the countries most exemplary of the point of view of the education. That is, we can promote an enormous increase of competitiveness of the economy. The Brazilian society is enough if to focar in this direction " said Matijascic.

It believes, however, that the Brazilian data show that the country if finds in a position of relative stability and that it can, also, to take off advantage of global the financial crisis. “Perhaps either a good moment it Brazil to reach the developed nations more. Because one meets in a position of relative stability, it does not face great difficulties, its growth basically is based on the domestic market and this can mean a great dynamism so that Brazil recoups in part the delay " said it.

Source: UOL/Ipea

November 20, 2008 | 3:19 PM Comments  0 comments

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Projeto combate homofobia e sexismo em escolas do RJ
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Project combat homofobia and sexismo in schools of the RIO DE JANEIRO
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The Project Sexual Diversity in the School, tied with the Papo Program Head, of the Federal University of Rio De Janeiro, convokes schools of the public net of education of the region metropolitan of Rio De Janeiro to establish partnership in an action of promotion of human rights and combat to the homofobia and the sexismo in the school.

The proposal foresees the accomplishment, in the school, of activities with responsible educators, students and, to argue the sexual diversity and of sort identities, especially in the pertaining to school context.

The Project Sexual Diversity in the School initiated its activities in 2006. Throughout these three years of performance, the project specifically focou its action in the professionals of the education -- administrative managers, professors, technician and. Throughout this work the demand of the educators so that the project of some form acted next to the remain of the pertaining to school community, especially with the students was great.

The prompt accomplishment of a workshop without a doubt already generates (and it generated) results, modifications in the debate and the action of the school with regard to the sexual diversity. However, we not only perceive at this moment that if becomes basic to increase the degree of interaction with the school, happening next to the educators, but reaching of integral form to the all the pertaining to school community.

On the other hand, each one of these actors? educators, pupils, responsible? they demand different contents for debate and strategies of dialogue. Thus, the Project considers the accomplishment of three basic activities in the interaction with each reached school:

? Accomplishment of a Workshop of Sensitization with the Professionals of the Education

? Responsible accomplishment of a Workshop of Sensitization with mothers, parents and

? Accomplishment of a spectacle of Theater-Forum having as public target the students

the schools interested in forming a partnership or getting more information on this action, can enter in contact for the telephone: (21) 2598-1892/9696; email: diversidadeppc@me.ufrj.br; site: www.papocabeca.me.ufrj.br/diversidade

Source: IBV/UFRJ

November 20, 2008 | 3:17 PM Comments  0 comments

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Discriminação nas escolas e nos livros prejudica desempenho de alunos negros
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