“Our struggle, like our grandparents’ and great-grandparents’, is to defend this land so that we can hand it over to the new generations just as it was when we received it.”

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Feb 19

Adrienne (Drica) (ah-dreen) (dree-kah)

teacher, Cachoeira Porteira

IMAGE SOURCE: Pablo Albarenga.  “Drica: Resistance in the quilombos of the Trombetas River.”Open Democracy blog post. 4 July 2019. | TEXT SOURCE: Francesc Badia i Dalmases. “Drica: Resistance in the quilombos of the Trombetas River.” … — IMAGE SOURCE: Pablo Albarenga. “Drica: Resistance in the quilombos of the Trombetas River.”Open Democracy blog post. 4 July 2019. | TEXT SOURCE: Francesc Badia i Dalmases. “Drica: Resistance in the quilombos of the Trombetas River.” Open Democracy blog post. 4 July 2019.

QUOTE CONTEXT: “This Brazilian activist is responsible for an association of six Afro-Brazilian communities that face the threat of the destruction of their environment.”

QUOTE QUESTION: What land did your ancestors defend?

IMAGE CONTEXT: “Drica on her way to the community school where she's a teacher. Teaching young children to respect the land is what motivates her most.”

IMAGE QUESTION: When you look into the distance, what do you see?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote and photo are from a blog post.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: Can social media help young people to respect the land?

“Our struggle, like our grandparents’ and great-grandparents’, is to defend this land so that we can hand it over to the new generations just as it was when we received it.”

Adrienne (Drica) (ah-dreen) (dree-kah)

“We do as our ancestors taught us. People need to know where (their) food… comes from. Our typical dishes came from the slave quarters and remain made without chemicals or poison.”

“I'm certain family members have suffered tremendously (from the deaths of family at the hands of soldiers) but I'm not familiar with the techniques used to express such suffering in monetary terms.”