seja democracia
Be Democracy moves in a great circle of training, organization, action of local leaders, groups and collectives.
THE PROJECT
Seja Democracia (Be Democracy) is a plural political training center designed by the Maria and João Aleixo Institute, with priority for young black people who form the periphery throughout Brazil. It invests in the construction of methodologies, concepts, propositions and actions that expand the possibilities of reinventing ways of doing politics and relating to the public sphere of Brazilian society, based on the radicalization of democracy.
UNDERSTAND
Where are we
Seja Democracia is distributed in person at in-person centers in RJ, MG, SP, BA, PE and PB. Through groups of people who come together based on the need to build actions that improve the lives of residents of their community, favela, neighborhood, municipality, we carry out Training, Organization and Political Action. Check out our hubs, political formation centers and popular struggle committees on the map below. Be part of this movement!
Bahia Unit
- GRUMAP (Group of women from Alto das Pombas)
- Black Reference
- Overcoming - Center for Dialogues with People with Disabilities
- Today seeds of tomorrow
- Get politicized
- Unity is the strength of Iraq Street
- Vagalumes Association
- Forum of Civil Society Organizations of Bahia
- Obinrin Ni Keke
- Women in politics group
- CONVERGIR
- Action Center to Combat Fatphobia
- EMPOWERED WOMEN
- Feira de Santana conversation circle
- What Democracy do we want?
- Democratic Periphery - BUMBÁ
- Collective Construction Committee
- Daughters of Jacira Committee
- JPR Lower City Committee
- Itinerant Committee for Democracy
Paraíba Unit
- Young people in action
- Acajaman
- ARCA
- Cariri Be Democracy
- Agriculture
- Women who welcome
- Women X 2
- S C Capiberibe
- Participatory democracy
- Quebradas
- Little Crack X 6
- Aquilombar
- Youth empowerment
- SJC Girls
- Diverse bodies
- New Vision
- Black November Center for Democracy
- Black Core is beautiful
- Long Live Democracy Committee
- ACAJAMAN Committee
- Cariri for Democracy
- Women for more democracy.
- Serra Branca in defense of democracy
Pernambuco Unit
- Black Youth Center
- Peripheral Powers
- EGBÉ AXÉ LIMOEIRO
- Mais Social - Democracy training center
- Empowering Women with the Art of Learning, Making and Marketing
- Pernambuco Youth Forum (FOJUPE)
- Iburoteca Maria de Lima Cultural Center
- Taking care of us
- Territory and Connection
- ANEPE / Coalition
- Black Women's Network
- Revelar.si
- Bird Woman Space
- Baque Mulher Female Empowerment Movement
- More Democracy
- They used theater to dominate, we will use theater to liberate
- MABI - Movement Breaking Invisible Barriers
- Christ Square
- Coletivo Caranguejo Tabaiares Resists
Rio de Janeiro Unit
- Space for exchange and training with children aged 6 to 12 years old
- BR Strippers
- Balance of the World
- Combat violence against peripheral women
- Ponte Cultural Collective
- Straight Talk Defiça
- Nutri Sunflower
- Mangueirinha Complex Committee
- Reception and support center for people who care for their mental health Rosaura Maria Bráz
- Favela Committee
- The Vira Voto Committee.
- "Speak up, neighbor!"
- Alive and happy youth. Free from Fake News.
- Observatory and the 2022 elections.
- Do Well
- Democratic Conversation Circle.
São Paulo Unit
- Pop Street Movement
- Sustainable territories
- Véio Griô Cultural Association
- Afurban Dialogues
- Dona Rossi Space
- Hug you
- Our money, our people
- Carnarua
- QDA CONTRA HUNGER - Capoeira de Angola Cultural Center and Jardim São Paulo Residents Association
- Germinar Project
- Be Democracy in Schools
- Occupation Chácara Gonzaga
- Golden Eye Girls Association
- Jardim Amália Residents Association
- Expand quotas
- Caring mothers
- Junior Parliament
- Art in the streets
Pará Unit
- Be Democracy Cabanagem
Rio Grande do Sul Unit
- Collective of Capoeira Masters and Teachers of Caxias do Sul
- Democratizing Poá
- Street democracy
- Collective About Them
Amapá Unit
- All we can do is fight on the periphery
Amazonas Unit
- Hope for Democracy
- Serra Branca in defense of democracy
SANTA CATARINA
- Mothers of Light
Maranhão
- Women in the fight, no one lets go of anyone's hand
PARANÁ
- Culture in everyday reality
Minas Gerais Unit
- Doulas Association
- Ully Project
- Mada Collective
- Network of Community Libraries I am from Minas, iai
- Uniquilombos Carolina Maria de Jesus
- Reexist Collective
- Chat with Favela
- Balaio Collective
- Radio MNDH MINAS and IPAD collective
- Zaira DNA
- Conceição Evaristo Cultural Center
- "The story that history doesn't tell"
- Nigga Chat Podcast
- EMPODERE MG - Professional mentoring for young black women
- Food security and democracy, is it all or nothing?
- Open Book Community Library
- Library and social space
- Political Training Center
- Open Book Community Library
- Santa Luzia Center
- Vila Jardim São José
- Recanto das Nascentes Committee
- Exercise of democracy and promotion of the participation of young people from the periphery in politics
MATO GROSSO
- Riverside Women and Artisans
GOIÁS
- Aquilombar Collective
- + 5.000people trained over the years in our courses
- + 20.000people directly impacted in the territories by our political formation centers
- + 600.000people impacted on the networks by our citizen participation committees
BE DEMOCRACY
COURSE
COURSE
Political training program that takes place annually and aims to build a peripheral democratic agenda that supports the consolidation of democracy and the Brazilian republic, with a focus on overcoming inequalities and existing patriarchal, patrimonial and racist practices. To this end, it offers classes on strategic topics for understanding democratic culture and promotes the creation of territorial centers for political action, among others.
REGISTER
We select people participating in collectives, social and cultural movements, civil society institutions, universities, associations or community leaders with an interest in being trained and acting as multipliers of the theoretical and methodological contents of Be Democracy in their territories. In our selection criteria we will seek to meet gender, ethnic and identity parity, in addition to the cultural diversity representative of peripheral territories.
Watch your class here!
Watch our playlist! Be Democracy, in partnership with the São Paulo Parliament School, developed the training course "Dialogues in defense of democracy".
There are 3 training seminars, each consisting of 3 virtual meetings and with the presence of experts to discuss Patrimonialism, Patriarchy and Structural Racism.
There are 3 training seminars, each consisting of 3 virtual meetings and with the presence of experts to discuss Patrimonialism, Patriarchy and Structural Racism.
Political formation map
The Political Formation Map is an integrated path of training, organization and political action, based on the experiences of people on the periphery. It was created to contribute to the training of young leaders from the periphery and, with this, build local groups and collectives based on their demands for rights.
It contains video classes with important themes for understanding the limits and possibilities of democracy, as well as a roadmap for creating centers for political action and training.
BAIXAR O MAPA
Training path
SEJA DEMOCRACIA
Published by Editora Periferias with support from the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the book "Seja Democracy: form, organize and act" is a call for the political formation of all people fighting for the radicalization of democracy in Brazil.
BOOK
Created to also serve people who do not have regular access to the internet, the Seja Democracia app offered access to the Interactive Map, a training path with several interactive classes, planning and monitoring of the actions of the Seja Democracia Centers in their territories, available on IOS and Android.
DOWNLOAD APP
LETTERS
Check out our manifesto letters that explain our positions on issues of public interest!
MANIFESTO
SEPTEMBER 7
THE SCREAM THAT WON'T SHUT DOWN
On the eve of completing 200 years of independence, the country faces a bleak social and economic scenario that gets worse every day.
The continuous and perverse pace of current misgovernment continues to generate violence, racism, hunger, inflation and has reached more than 580,000 deaths from COVID-19. This makes the organization and historical political activity of families from the different peripheries of our country increasingly insurgent. Our fight has been going on for a long time!
This Tuesday, September 7th, the 27th Cry of the Excluded will take place across Brazil.
The Cry of the Excluded and the Excluded changed the face of September 7th and Fatherland Week. Every year it calls on people to come down from the stands of civic and military parades and to actively fight together with the different segments of society committed to defending the rights of those excluded from rights in Brazil.
Life first!
May September 7th echo our cry of denunciation and for a life project.
We fight for a more fair and equal country. The cry is collective and adds to the fight for popular participation, health, food, housing, work and income now.
We, at the Institute for Thoughts and Actions in Defense of Democracy/IMJA, support and will be present at the events of the Excluded Screams that will take place across the country and around the world. We are a plural political training center, with priority for young black people living on the outskirts of Brazil.
As a network, we will continue the fight for the radicalization of democracy that is guided by life!
More than ever in our history, we believe and fight for a society project that has at its center a dignified life for everyone, without genocide of the poor, black and indigenous population, with social justice and opportunities.
Be democracy at home, online and on the streets!
The continuous and perverse pace of current misgovernment continues to generate violence, racism, hunger, inflation and has reached more than 580,000 deaths from COVID-19. This makes the organization and historical political activity of families from the different peripheries of our country increasingly insurgent. Our fight has been going on for a long time!
This Tuesday, September 7th, the 27th Cry of the Excluded will take place across Brazil.
The Cry of the Excluded and the Excluded changed the face of September 7th and Fatherland Week. Every year it calls on people to come down from the stands of civic and military parades and to actively fight together with the different segments of society committed to defending the rights of those excluded from rights in Brazil.
Life first!
May September 7th echo our cry of denunciation and for a life project.
We fight for a more fair and equal country. The cry is collective and adds to the fight for popular participation, health, food, housing, work and income now.
We, at the Institute for Thoughts and Actions in Defense of Democracy/IMJA, support and will be present at the events of the Excluded Screams that will take place across the country and around the world. We are a plural political training center, with priority for young black people living on the outskirts of Brazil.
As a network, we will continue the fight for the radicalization of democracy that is guided by life!
More than ever in our history, we believe and fight for a society project that has at its center a dignified life for everyone, without genocide of the poor, black and indigenous population, with social justice and opportunities.
Be democracy at home, online and on the streets!
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NOVEMBER 20
Our black bodies build democracy in Brazil
Brazilian democracy is still far from being complete. Its continued construction, despite many conservative reactions, has been a long process, which continues in step with the historic struggle of black people for their rights. From its construction in the fields, whose symbol and greatest materialization is Quilombo dos Palmares, to the construction of a living and intense city from the urban outskirts, our black bodies, always in the fight for full freedom, are the engine that builds the foundations organic aspects of Brazilian democracy. We know that only in a radically democratic society is there a guarantee of human dignity for all. Experiences such as slavery, the military dictatorship and the Bolsonaro government, with its multiple accomplices, do not allow us to forget this.
After all, we know that we are the ones who most feel the impacts of our republic's setbacks, both in the past and now. According to an IBGE sample survey, in 2020, among the poorest 10%, 21.9% were white and 77.0% black. In the richest tenth, the proportion is reversed: 70.6% white and 27.2% black. The same research shows that with the deepening of the Covid 19 pandemic, accompanied by the socioeconomic crisis, the black population is rapidly losing access to social policies achieved during the governments that preceded the constitutional coup.
It is because of this awareness that we continue, organized black people, in the repeated struggle to overcome the racist, sexist and patrimonial structures built by conservative/reactionary forces to block any possibility of access to equal rights. We will not hesitate to confront these forces, as we know well that only through their defeat will we be able to see the fully democratic society that our Brazil so desperately needs. Therefore, on our biggest date, November 20th, we affirm the centrality of the black Brazilian people as a power and in the materialization of a Democratic State of Law for all. And we call on black people to uplift our ancestry in building a future full of life in the present.
- Long live Zumbi and all black people!
Be Democracy!
The quilombola mystique persists stating:
"Freedom is a constant struggle."
Poem: Tempo de nos aquilombar
Author: Conceição Evaristo
After all, we know that we are the ones who most feel the impacts of our republic's setbacks, both in the past and now. According to an IBGE sample survey, in 2020, among the poorest 10%, 21.9% were white and 77.0% black. In the richest tenth, the proportion is reversed: 70.6% white and 27.2% black. The same research shows that with the deepening of the Covid 19 pandemic, accompanied by the socioeconomic crisis, the black population is rapidly losing access to social policies achieved during the governments that preceded the constitutional coup.
It is because of this awareness that we continue, organized black people, in the repeated struggle to overcome the racist, sexist and patrimonial structures built by conservative/reactionary forces to block any possibility of access to equal rights. We will not hesitate to confront these forces, as we know well that only through their defeat will we be able to see the fully democratic society that our Brazil so desperately needs. Therefore, on our biggest date, November 20th, we affirm the centrality of the black Brazilian people as a power and in the materialization of a Democratic State of Law for all. And we call on black people to uplift our ancestry in building a future full of life in the present.
- Long live Zumbi and all black people!
Be Democracy!
The quilombola mystique persists stating:
"Freedom is a constant struggle."
Poem: Tempo de nos aquilombar
Author: Conceição Evaristo