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USNDB News - Issue #78 - September 14, 2022

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Dear Supporters of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil:

Join us in supporting "September 2022: International Month in Defense of Democracy in Brazil" by organizing public meetings, debates, roundtable discussions or other activities during the month of September that have as a focus opposition to any possible coup attempt and the defense of the Brazilian electoral process. We hope that we can organize at least 50 events worldwide during the month of September. If you are planning an event in September on your college campus or in your community, please send information about it to:
democracybrazil@gmail.com

Find below the USNDB-supported events submitted to us so far! Did we miss something? Write us an email and let us know!
September 15th: Film Screening, Madalena. 

September 16th: Lunch Talk with Director Madiano Marcheti 

September 29th: Bate Papo Político with Jefferson Tenório 
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The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh presents Watufani Poe (Pitt) speaking on “Adé-Dúdú: Lessons from Brazil’s First Gay Organization” and David Blackmore (New Jersey City University) speaking on “Censorship of Queer Books under the Brazilian Military Regime,” as part of the CLAS Speaker Series. Moderated by Daniel Balderston.  Thursday, Sept. 22 at 12:30 in Posvar Hall 4217 or via Zoom. 
Zoom Registration
Film screening of ABC da Greve + Discussion at Penn State on September 21. The event will be in hybrid format and will be open to non PSU-affiliated people as well.
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A Post-Bolsonaro Brazil? The Futures of Indigenous Peoples, Evangelicals, and Refugees in the Ballot Box

A Princeton Brazil LAB event with Artionka Capiberibe, Ronaldo Almeida, and Isadora Lins França. Discussant: Pedro Meira Monteiro.

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Madalena - A Film by Madiano Marcheti

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Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past & Present

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Democracy in Jeopardy? Roundtable on the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Elections

September 22, 2022
 
Panelists: Guillermo Douglass-Jaimes, Joana Grande, Sarah Sarzynski, and Norman Valencia, panelists
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UCSC - UNICAMP Symposium: “The Far-Right and Democracy: Brazil and the Américas”, September 28, 9 am

This symposium will bring together Brazilian social scientists from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and faculty and doctoral students from UCSC to reflect on the political and cultural effects of the rise of the far-right in the Américas and its impacts on democracy.

The panels will focus on: 1) Indigenous Rights and Resistance in the Américas; 2) Race, Gender, and Class in Bolsonaro's Brazil; 3) Discourses and Strategies of the Far-Right; and 4) Neo-Conservatism and Anti-Globalism in the Américas.

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Brazilian Democracy Under Attack: 1964 and 2022 - 12th of October


Speakers: James Green, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Professor of Modern Latin American History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies; Director of the Brazil Initiative, Brown University; Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta, Full Professor of Brazilian History, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG); Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto, Adjunct Professor, University of Brasilia (UnB)
Moderated by: Sidney Chalhoub, David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
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Uma conversa com a Deputada Federal Luiza Erundina - 16th of September


Speaker: Luiza Erundina, Deputada Federal
Moderated by: Sidney Chalhoub, David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
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Coup or No Coup? A Post-Election Debate - 5th of October

A Brazil LAB event with Laura Carvalho and Silvio Almeida. Discussant: Miguel Centeno. Co-organized with the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

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Precarious Democracy: A Discussion on the 2022 Brazilian Elections @
Dartmouth University - 21st of September


This event convenes a panel of experts to discuss the upcoming October 2022 federal elections in Brazil, arguably one of the most pressing elections of modern contemporary Latin American politics. In 2018, Brazilians elected the far-right Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Bolsonaro’s election represented the most serious challenge to Brazil’s democracy since the restoration of civilian rule in 1985 after over two decades of military dictatorship (1964-85). In conjunction with Bolsonaro’s sustained weakening of democratic institutions and norms, his presidency has seen record deforestation of the Amazon, rising violence against Afro-Brazilians, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ persons, and a troubled response against the COVID-19 pandemic in which Bolsonaro spread misinformation about vaccines. His main opponent is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores), the former trade union leader and president of Brazil (2003-10), whose previous imprisonment on corruption charges based on flimsy evidence preemptively ended his 2018 presidential campaign. The current election promises to be no less dramatic and our panel of experts will address a complex, highly fluid situation whose implications extend beyond Brazil and will engage anyone interested in the global rise of right-wing authoritarian populists, climate change, and the potential redux of the 2000s “Pink Tide” of leftist leaders across Latin America.
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We thank you for your continuous support and involvement with the USNDB! Be sure to follow us on our Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Youtube for more updates on our work and to access our past webinars, campaigns, statements and more.

Take care,

Roni Wine
The U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil
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