Book review article City Match of Zuenir
"The City" from the title of this book is the Rio de Janeiro, the scene of a real war: the society against the bandits.
For nine months, Zuenir Ventura, author of 1968: the year that never ended, he attended the slum Vicar General (notorious the massacre of 21 people in August 1993), coexisting with the other side of town, where life is worth nothing, and violence is the language of everyday life. At the same time, accompanied actively mobilizing civil society against violence, which resulted in the Viva Rio's book is the startling statement often thrilled, this corresponds to a bidding war surprising and unexpected heroes, whose solution is not merely to destroy a supposed enemy, but to incorporate the excluded masses of society.
Zuenir Ventura, himself a soldier engaged in this fight, first recalls in the book that supposedly idyllic times Rio da Bossa Nova Finding those "golden years" the seeds of violence.
The author portrays a world that the TV cameras show fearfully. It is amazing to know the values and hierarchies that dominate world where there's always a machine gun in tow and cocaine is sold in a public square.
Along with Caio Ferraz and sociologist Betinho Zuenir with journalist's nose, light and nice text, draws a portrait of the Vicar General and glimpse, through the Project Viva Rio "unification" of Rio de Janeiro, that is, the disruption the barriers of social inequalities.
"To control violence in the favelas no point calling the police; is best to call the Fantastic. "
FACTBOX:
A little history of Rio de Janeiro:
History of Rio de Janeiro
In 1502, on January 1, Portuguese navigators sighted the Guanabara Bay and believing that this was the mouth of a river, gave him the name of Rio de Janeiro, giving rise to the name of the city. The council was founded in 1565 by Estacio de Sa, with the name of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro, in honor of the then King of Portugal, Dom Sebastian.
The Rio de Janeiro became the capital of Brazil in 1763, a title he held until 1960, when Brasília was inaugurated, the current capital the country.
The Portuguese royal family moved because of the Napoleonic wars, to Rio de Janeiro in 1808, where in 1815 the Prince Regent John VI was crowned King of the United Kingdom of Brazil, Portugal and the Algarve.
The city's economy was driven from the seventeenth century by the cycles of sugar cane, gold and coffee. Today, the state of Rio de Janeiro is the second industrial center of Brazil, is among the first tourism, besides being a cultural center of the country and major political center.
Peoples Europeans, mainly Portuguese, mixing with African slaves and Indians, led to a people that make up its population of over 6 million Cariocas.
A major problem now facing the Rio de Janeiro is the violence caused by fighting between rival drug trafficking and the fight against trafficking police, which dominates the city's many favelas of Rocinha and as Vicar General.
figures quoted in the book:
Who was Herbert de Souza
Betinho - a story, a life
Everything that begins ends one day. It is very strange to think that people have expiration dates. His life is gone, but his deeds are immortalized and on this basis, we understand the story. Are actions, changes, gestures effective and efficient to change yourself to change the world. Examples are followed and are hoisted flags of struggle. In a country with so many social, economic and political, how to drop a fragmented society and so different from each other? Based on this inequality that pervades Brazilian people, the problems worsen, but yes there are people fighting for their solutions. A great example lived and died without being able to finish their fight. Still, great deeds were done and his name remains: Herbert José de Souza, or if you prefer, Betinho.
was in Minas Gerais where Betina was born on November 3, 1935. This symbol da luta por mudanças sociais sempre buscou a paz, munido de diplomacia e equilíbrio para lidar com posições das mais diversas, de forma a transformar o Brasil em um lugar melhor não para as minorias privilegiadas, mas também para aqueles marginalizados pelas suas condições sócio-econômicas e pelo preconceito.
Em sua família, foi o terceiro de oito de irmãos. Em 1962, formou-se em Sociologia, Política e Administração Pública pela Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas da Universidade de Minas Gerais. Foi a partir daí que Betinho engajou-se em lutas de cunho social, assumindo a liderança nacional dos grupos de juventude católica, representando os desejos de transformação social, later reinforced by Vatican II. Participated in the achievement of "basic reform."
Despite the calm and tranquility, Betinho was never disputed by the situation of Brazilian society. According to the writer Otto Lara Rezende, the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Betinho went to public places to ask for everything that the Communists were asking - and the sky.
While the turbulent period of politics in Brazil had not yet arrived, Betinho was the coordinator of advising the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Superintendency of Agrarian Reform, and is responsible for designing studies on the Brazilian social structure to the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC), the United Nations. This period also took its labor movements in Brazil.
In 1964, more than ever Betinho exercised its militancy and its resistance to the imposition of military rule, leading organizations in the fight to stamp democratic regime was installed. In the early 1970s, went into exile, never settling in any country. His journey began in Santiago, Chile where he taught at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales and advised the president Allende.Escapou the bloody military coup of General Pinochet, going to the embassy in Panama in 1974. Then followed
to Canada and Mexico.
Betinho was at that time director of the Latin American Council of Peace Research (IPRA), consultant to FAO projects and migration in Latin America and coordinator of Latin American Research Unit (Laru), among others. He held also the position of full professor in the Doctorate of Economics
Division of Higher Studies at the Faculty of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, and director of Brazilian Studies in Canada.
Betinho became a symbol of the amnesty campaign. Returned home in 1979 and engaged fully in social and political struggles, always with the proposal to extend democracy and social justice.
helped to found, in the early 80's, ISER - Institute for Studies of Religion - and presided over the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association - ABIA, founded in 1986 and one of the earliest and most influential institutions in the country in defense of rights of persons with HIV or AIDS patients.
Their fight for right to life for those living with HIV / AIDS is contextualized in a broader and higher level, the defense of human dignity, going beyond the personal.
Moreover, Herbert de Souza also dedicated himself to the General Coordination of IBASE - Brazilian Institute for Socio-Economic - Position held until the last days, with strong physical strength, clarity and awareness of Brazilian reality, denouncing social exclusion, the concentration of wealth and political control. For those unfamiliar, IBASE is a government entity that has as main goal the democratization of information about the economic realities, and social policies in Brazil.
Betinho, who was hemophiliac, contracted the AIDS virus in blood transfusions needed. For the same genetic condition in 1988 at an interval of three months, Betinho lost two brothers: the cartoonist Henfil, 43, famous by skillful and creative use of humor in the criticism of military dictatorship, even in his worst moments of repression of free political expression, and musician Chico Mario, with only 39 years. Despite these losses, Betinho never abandoned political activism, keeping always present at events that raise the banner of humanism.
Due to low resistance, Betinho was the victim of an oral infection and was admitted to Charity Hospital in Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro, on July 5, 1997
Twenty-six days later, asked to return to his house in Botafogo , Rio de Janeiro, where he died on August 9, 1997, at 61 years of age, victims of hepatitis C.
His body was cremated on August 11 and the ashes were scattered at his home in Itatiaia.
Reference perseverance, courage and determination, Betinho continues until today in memory of Brazilian citizens as a great example of struggle and hope for a better world, for a better Brazil.
played important roles in the history of Brazilian society, working in movements for social mobilization, including: the articulation of the National Campaign for Agrarian Reform in 1983, bringing together organizations of rural workers, the organization in 1990, Earth Democracy movement ; leadership in 1992, the Movement for Ethics in Politics, which led to the impeachment of then President Fernando Collor de Mello in September of that year.
After the impeachment battle, Betinho devoted himself to the Citizens Action Against Misery and for Life. Has the campaign against hunger that took the streets in 1993 and reached the end of that year, the approval of 96% of the company, according to Nielsen.
He also served as Coordinator of "Action for Citizenship against Hunger and Poverty", a project in which he intended to go beyond a social welfare character: he wanted to unite with other movements and initiatives of individuals and communities throughout the country
Controversy "Betinho Campaign" which aimed to end the promotion of citizenship, the right to employment and the struggle for land was the greatest legacy of Brazil's public life humanist.
Launched in 1994, the campaign "Christmas Without Hunger", which collected 600 tons of food in the first year. In August of that year, made a speech at the UN, at the preparatory meeting for the World Conference on Social Development
. There were also two other key moments: the Walk for Peace Movement Reacts River in November 1995, and the carnival parade in 1996 when it was Betinho plot of Imperio Serrano samba school in Rio de Janeiro. The theme was: "And you will see that your son does not fear to fight."
Between 1996 and 1997, Betinho presented a proposal to the Social Agenda Rio 2004 the International Olympic Committee, when the capital engaged in its bid to host Olympics in 1996. Moreover, Betinho launched via IBASE, Rio 2000 Social Agenda in an attempt to strive for improved quality of life in the State of Rio de Janeiro, in which he suggested the establishment of social goals envisioned for it.
In July 1997, in a meeting with businessmen from all over the country, launched a campaign of acceptances to the Social, a kind of balance sheet where the indicators are social investments made by companies.
Throughout his career, he published also several books, articles and essays, always with the same concern to criticize the structures that make life difficult and unfair to millions of people.
eagerly participated in the political life of Brazil, putting into practice its a great statement: "Only the citizen participation is capable of changing the country."
LINKS:
http://www.aids.gov.br/betinho/
http://www.mre.gov.br/cdbrasil/itamaraty/web/port/autores/hsbetinh.htm
http://secis.mct.gov.br/index.php?action=/content/view&cod_objeto=15324
FERRAZ Caio
"Will my child for life, life is a risk. We are in the abyss of eternal capitalism. Lunchbox Press, smile, life is it is a precipice."
Caio Ferraz, a sociologist.
City Begins In one of the main characters is the sociologist Caio Ferraz. Born in 1968, Caius claims to be the generation that has no utopia, which has no dreams, which have no prospect of a better Brazil. But as every rule has an exception, this social scientist born and raised in the "Vicar General" broke the cycle and answered the question with the life that her mother did when one of her 11 children was murdered by police about the possibility of all its children have the same purpose.
Gaius was the first resident of Vicar General to complete an undergraduate course in a public college, but not limited to this, since it proved to himself that it was possible to survive and be independent of drug trafficking, has decided to contribute to other people could dream of a better life and work for it.
"Our vision is to give perspective to them. In my understanding and comprehension of a group working together, if we have an ideal we have in one way or another, to walk the bridges that ideal. We have to build our ability to citizenship. " socióilogo says.
After the massacre of Vicar General (WHERE 21 PEOPLE WHO HAD NO CONNECTION WITH THE TRAFFIC WERE KILLED), Carl started a social work, one year and seven months later, turned the house where a whole family of evangelicals was murdered in House of Peace
Today, the House serves more than 400 children and adolescents, offering courses such as typing and printing. Survive, as he wishes to say, without any help from the traffic, relying only on funds from projects funded by NGOs (Non Governmental Organisations) and the sale of shirts made in the printing of the House. A job that has grown wings and wants to fly more high.
words Caio Ferraz:
"There is a theory that" the ideal is possible. "If you can do a little House of Peace, with 400 teenagers thinking Vicar General, Vicar General discussing, reflecting on the Vicar General, we're doing a small revolution.
To classify this work as Gaius Ferrraz uses tremble favelania:
"It's the way we create the possibilities of being a citizen through the slum. No use come here and say:" you are entitled. " What is right? It's not like a pen, you take. The law is an abstraction. Citizenship is one thing abstract, a thing that has to be internalized in every person, thinking about the collective. To be a citizen in the urban world, which is our reality, you have to have at least the urban facilities to be granted access to citizenship. A quality school - no point just having the building, we need to work, to give a constructive criticism and education; have to have a health clinic, job training - how a couple will have a future if not professional? For now we only have favelania. We only have a right beating, not having jobs, not health, not education, not professionalism, not having a quality of care in the social area.
And do not have to give anything, but has to build those bridges has to show that people have value, which is what the Constitution says: "All are equal before the law." What is equality? What is right? What is citizenship? They are all abstractions, then we must create a way to be a citizen. And we're trying to do this through a project called Favelania. And we are seeking funds from organizations like Amnesty International. But there is a principle of confrontation with the bourgeois laws, the laws established by the State which is not meant to defend the public is made to defend the private. "
social projects mentioned in the book:
VIVA RIO
In response to the murder of eight boys from the Candelaria Church and the slaughter of 21 people in Vicar Overall, in 1993, was born Viva Rio, a nongovernmental organization, nonpartisan and nonprofit that encourages individuals, organizations and businesses build a more just society and democrática.Seu kick-off was the mobilization of thousands of people dressed White, who observed two minutes of silence and called for peace on December 17 that year, at noon.
With the support of the population, Viva Rio has developed campaigns for peace and social projects in five areas: human rights and public safety, community development, education, sports and environment. Today works with over 18 projects in some 350 slums and low income communities in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, where in partnership with local authorities, investing primarily in young, more vulnerable to social risks, and seeking to overcome the violence.
AFRO Raggae
Grupo Cultural Afro Reggae (CARG) was founded in January 1993, initially around the journal Afro Reggae News - a vehicle information aimed at the enhancement and promotion of black culture, geared especially for young people linked to rhythms such as reggae, soul, hip-hop, etc..
With plans to interfere more directly with the african-Brazilian population, was opened in 1993 in the slums of the first Vicar General Community Center in the Culture of Afro Raggae, initiating the development of social projects.
Soon, that center was consolidated from the first workshops - which were dance, percussion, garbage recycling, soccer and capoeira - and paved the way for new ventures.
By then they had the clear objective to be achieved, and which can be defined by the institutional mission that has guided us today: to offer a cultural and artistic education for slum-dwellers so they had to construct their citizenship and thus could escape the path of drug trafficking and underemployment, and act as multipliers for other young people.
In 1997, the Afro Reggae inaugurated the Centro Cultural Afro Reggae Vicar Legal. With a well-structured physical space within the community, the work could be developed with the highest quality and design, and it was possible to make this initiative a reference to sociocultural practice in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In
Vicar Social Program involves the addition of several workshops - music, capoeira, theater, dance and hip hop - the Children's Legal, which is a program to support children who are in preschool, where for two years they participate in activities socialization and literacy, with a guarantee of enrollment in public schools in the city. Parents also attend weekly meetings where they discussed topics such as domestic violence and personal hygiene care, and receive baskets of food, which has generated a general improvement in living conditions of every family that integrates the program.
these 9 years the African struggle Raggae grew and never lets up, reaching most of the slums of Rio de Janeiro, leading those people the recipe for a better life.
Speaking of Fantastic ... a little documentary about the Falcon - Boys of trafficking, made by rapper MV Bill and Celso by sociologist Athaíde, aired on TV Globo on March 19 and that is very much related to the topics covered in the book of Zuenir Ventura.
Falcon - Boys trafficking
The Fantastic documentary that aired on Sunday March 19, about the involvement of children and adolescents with drug trafficking scarcely left to shock millions of viewers of the Globe.
is good that the society has to bump into this stupid reality that rose on the incompetence and corruption of public officials. Social pressure is an important element in that things can change. The documentary titled
Falcon - Boys of trafficking is by MV Bill and Celso Athayde his manager.
Hawk is the name given to those who have the responsibility to oversee the slum and letting drug dealers when the police or any other "enemy" approach. "Falcon does not sleep, he just lies," said one.
Most viewers are touched, no doubt. But few recognized that social inequalities in Brazil is requiring the marginalized escolheren the underworld of drug trafficking as a means of survival.
The slum dwellers, contrary to popular belief, are not angry with the day-to-day marked by guns and drugs. Is that traffickers establish a policy of mutual collaboration that works basically like this: medicine, food baskets, clothes are donated to the residents when they have the need to "traffic manager". Instead, silence, complicity and approval are required.
Hold the "owners of mouth" does not solve the problem of drug trafficking, because the succession takes place immediately. Aspirants for the post of "owner of mouth" occupy the position as soon as he dies or is arrested, the current boss.
is a great challenge to solve the problem of trafficking as it affects international projections. Only 20% of the drug that reaches the Rio de Janeiro is to use "local". The remaining 80% are exported.
Review the distribution of income in Brazil and establishing policies for inclusion of the poor may be introductory measures of change. The traffic is just one option among the few that exist for those who were denied the right to have the basics to survive.
A drops review:
Boys trafficking
Falcon does not sleep, it just rests
It's hard to really know people and understand them. Your goals, your dreams, your needs. Everything is sinking in a sea of illusions and desires that propels the company to all and in the wild capitalism, we seek a reason to live. But when faced with the cruel reality of the torrid and the Brazilian people? People unable to make a better life who seek alternatives to move forward. This is how we classify people - yes, Brazilians, even though marginalized by this same society that have pity for them - living in slums and get involved in drug trafficking?
The media has a commitment to this society, not to omit the truth of this underworld, this broken city, as places Zuenir Ventura in his book "City Begins." Likewise, also wanting to change this hopeless context in which children and adults are indistinguishable and death and violence are the reality of every day, the rapper MV Bill produced "Falcon: boys of trafficking."
In the documentary, which is 58 minutes long and is the result of 217 hours of footage and interviews, along with a deep and extensive research communities and slums throughout the country, we have 16 boys, 15 of whom died and one is under arrest, telling the story of life in trafficking.
But how come in this world that has its own language, its own rules, its own law? MV Bill, responsible for producing the documentary, says: "Regardless of whether a joke or actual fact, the most important in this process was the degree of reliability that Conquerable with our interviewees. And that was only possible because they really believed in what we were doing. She was very complicity of their own families, specifically mothers. Sometimes in the most tragic family, the loss of his son, the mother still had strength to call us to say go shoot there because they believed in all this. Filming this material had to be with the complicity of these people, they truly believed they were giving a great contribution to solving this problem so much.. "
This proves that there is hope and there are so unwilling to change. Unfortunately, people become blind when the problem is on the show: take shape fear and prejudice due to the impact of this fact complicates the assimilation of what is perceived.
How to accept and understand simple nihilism total children who do not are more children: children who are soldiers, fogueiteiros, faithful? According
statement Athayde, to the Folha de Sao Paulo, "Falcon" will air at a time when discussing the occupation of the hills of Rio and the army, so in time "timely".
The reality of trafficking is hard, since no one survives to tell the story and leave the hive is not an option. Data show that the average age of the kids portrayed in "Falcon" is 16 years, 90% of them have no father and already have children. According Athayde, "This means that as the boys have died, these children Nor will their parents. We are living through a genocide. "
What young people live for themselves is not what they want for their children. Still, they see no prospect of change, and are the example of the heirs. When questioned, one of the boys says trafficking "Ah .. I get like this, right? How would I tell him?".
Women want another way, another life. One of the interviewees, who is breastfeeding her youngest son, reveals that the other 3-year-old talks about life as a bandit. Elated, the young mother wants to show he can be something beyond that which could have a life. In short, he who chooses, but knowing that early death is certain when the trafficker. One young
speaks fondly of reality, since most do not have parents, "Mom is a mother .. mother beats, do whatever you want. " The community is very close: there is a mutual help. Traffickers look after the people and make their own law.
The saddest documentary is perhaps the tone of voice of those interviewed, always with drawl, as if permanently weak and drugged by the lived reality. The ambitions are fleeing the common dream of every middle class citizen and the idols are not the same. The assertions clash: "When I grow up I want to be gangster"; "I want to be like my faithful," "I am never sad about anything, I'm always" if "getting high."
When asked about the future, the response, in which contend with an indifference which shocks the emptiness and hope nothing blows giving echoes in our heads. There seems no way out. The media is realizing that they need to fulfill their role to portray reality truthfully. Continue like this is not an option: we must change.
Perhaps being exposed to this truth, Brazilian society actually change its stance, as I said Gabriel thinker in his song "Until when," referring to violence and killing of Vicar Generally portrayed in the letter.
"The police killed a student who spoke was
thug, drug dealer called
Justice held the foot-shaven
He released and acquitted the deputy PM's Vicar of
Even when you're taking punches, punch?
Until when will be doing nothing? Even when you go
taking punches, punch?
When will be a punching bag?
(...) The police only exist to keep you on the law of silence
Law, Law of the weakest:
or accept being a punching bag or bag goes to
(...)
School alms
Favela chain
Without land, bury
Without surrender, surrender. No, not
(...)
Muda, that when we change the world changes with us
We change the world in changing the mind
And when the mind shifts we walk forward and when the
we send one commands the people
The change in attitude there is no evil that does not change or disease without cure
The change of attitude we would be more secure
In this change we shape the future "
expected to who passed the screening of the documentary aired on "Fantastic, March 19, grow increasingly. It making people aware of social and economic problems that these communities suffer what people decide to do something to improve the country. This was also the goal of Zuenir Ventura to portray the context of Vicar General, the massacre, struggles, social movements. That's what you want today too. Without cohesion and solidarity of the fraternal spirit, the boys yesterday of trafficking continue to be names thrown to the wind. The boys now and tomorrow will become dust, proving how we fail as human beings.
LINKS:
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u58925.shtml
http://www.rockpress.com.br/modules.php?name = News & file = article & sid = 352
http://fantastico.globo.com/Jornalismo/Fantastico/0,, AA1159933-4005-430658-0-19032006, 00.html
http://www.mundodorap.blogger.com.br/
http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2006/03/348663.shtml
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