“We do not want to live in the past. The past that lives in us will transform this country for the better.”

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Denildo “Biko” Rodrigues (day-neel-doh bee-koh rod-ree-guess)

coordinator, national Quilombo Association (Conaq)

IMAGE SOURCE: Claudio Tavares. “Doria government puts quilombola rights at risk in São Paulo.” 22 Sept. 2020. | TEXT SOURCE: “OAS Visits Quilombo Rio Dos Macacos And Collected Denounces Of Human Rights Violations.” CESE. Feb 2021.

IMAGE SOURCE: Claudio Tavares. “Doria government puts quilombola rights at risk in São Paulo.” 22 Sept. 2020. | TEXT SOURCE: “OAS Visits Quilombo Rio Dos Macacos And Collected Denounces Of Human Rights Violations.” CESE. Feb 2021.

QUOTE CONTEXT: As representative of the National Coordination of Rural Black Quilombola Communities (Conaq) asking the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate human rights violations in the failure of the Brazilian government to title quilombo communities.

QUOTE QUESTION: What of the past lives on in you?

IMAGE CONTEXT: “We fear a lot. We are in a period when quilombola policies, at national level, have been weakening. The state government is following the same path.”

IMAGE QUESTION: Which causes bring you to the microphone?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is from the website of a Christian aid organization. The photo is from the website of a Brazilian social and environmental NGO.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: How do you decide which organizations are good allies to work with in spreading news about the concerns of your People?

LEARN ABOUT AND SUPPORT THE QUILOMBOLAS: http://conaq.org.br/

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