“We only worked collectively, doing collective projects, puxirum (poo-she-room) as we called it, and the work was always divided with the plots right next to each other.”

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Feb 20

Daniel de Souza (dah-nee-yell day soh-zah)

territorial leader, Jauary

IMAGE SOURCE: Aline Cristina Oliveira do Carmo. “What can we learn from quilombos.” LeMonde Diplomatique Brazil. 14 Nov. 2020. | TEXT SOURCE: Raquel Paris. “Daniel de Souza: Between Loves and Quilombos in the Black Amazon.” Periferias. Aug. 2020.

QUOTE CONTEXT: “The preservation of the forest has also come with a few indispensable self-organizing lessons: how to cultivate plots “on the edge of consumption.”

QUOTE QUESTION: What collective projects does your community undertake together?

IMAGE CONTEXT: “We teach people how to live collectively. How to live without greed for power. What do we want? We simply want to live well, having health, having food every day, that we all have. Not only us quilombolas, but everyone.”

IMAGE QUESTION: How do consciousness and happiness express themselves in you?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is from a publication sharing works from people on the peripheries. The photo is from a journal meant to stimulate critical thinking.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: How do you decide how to share your Peoples’ stories?

“We only worked collectively, doing collective projects, puxirum (poo-she-room) as we called it, and the work was always divided with the plots right next to each other.”

Daniel de Souza (dah-nee-yell day soh-zah)

“We’ve left behind the ‘I’ in order to work for ‘us’ and the ‘my’ to work for ‘ours’. What is mine? The house, the clothes. And what is ours? The land.”

“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.”