“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.”

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Heloísa de França Dias (eh-low-ee-zah day-fran-kah dee-ahz)

community educator, Sao Pedro

IMAGE SOURCE: Rogerio Albuquerque.  “The history of struggle and strength of the women of the Ivaporunduva quilombo.”  Claudia. 18 Feb. 2020. | TEXT SOURCE: Marina Marques. “The history of struggle and strength of the women of the Ivaporun…

IMAGE SOURCE: Rogerio Albuquerque.  “The history of struggle and strength of the women of the Ivaporunduva quilombo.”  Claudia. 18 Feb. 2020. | TEXT SOURCE: Marina Marques. “The history of struggle and strength of the women of the Ivaporunduva quilombo.” Claudia. 18 Feb. 2020.

QUOTE CONTEXT: “Their struggle is for the importance of culture and work in quilombos to be recognized in Brazil, mainly for the food that is produced there.”

QUOTE QUESTION: What did your ancestors say about where your food comes from?

IMAGE CONTEXT: “She shares her first year of production engineering studies at a distance with working in the fields and raising two children.”

IMAGE QUESTION: Who do you hold with tenderness and joy?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote and photo are from an online magazine published by a large Brazilian media corporation.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: How do you decide which media channels to trust?

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“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.”