“That’s what we do here in this small corner hidden within the Amazon. Surviving so that we can obtain land titles and guarantee a piece of land for us to live on, for the future of our children.”

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Claudinete Colé (claw-dee-neh-tee koh-lay)

Boa Vista community leader

IMAGE SOURCE: South by Southwest conference photo. 2019. | TEXT SOURCE: Mariana Nozela Prado. “Interview with Claudinete Colé, ARQMO's First Woman Executive Coordinator.” Blog post. 17 Sept. 2018.

IMAGE SOURCE: South by Southwest conference photo. 2019. | TEXT SOURCE: Mariana Nozela Prado. “Interview with Claudinete Colé, ARQMO's First Woman Executive Coordinator.” Blog post. 17 Sept. 2018.

QUOTE CONTEXT: “We view this as our main rallying point: to pursue land titles for quilombolas who still don’t have them. We are experiencing lots of difficulties on the government side—the politics, actually—so we focus on mobilizing: making demands of the government agencies responsible for land titles.”

QUOTE QUESTION: What do you hope to guarantee for the future of your children?

IMAGE CONTEXT: Announcing her workshop, “Connecting the Hidden Amazon to the World.”

IMAGE QUESTION: What are your colors?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is from an interview on the website of an international policy institute. The photo is from the programming schedule for an annual media festival.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: How do you decide how widely to spread the messages from your People?

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