Once a year, the most diverse social movements in Brazil demonstrate together at the grito dos excluidos. Argemiro Ferreira de Almeida, a member of our project partner Comite da Copa Salvador, captured this year’s demonstration in a short film.
Annette Mokler, Program Coordination Brazil
Every year, the “grito dos excluidos” (outcry of the excluded) demonstration brings together various social movements from Brazil that are particularly affected by the unequal distribution of wealth. For example, movements of the landless, indigenous people, the homeless, street children, the marginalized favela population, black people and many more take part in the grito dos excluidos.
Families search for their children
Our project partners are also involved in this traditional march. Argemiro Almeida, representative of our project partner Comites Populares da Copa Salvador, sent us a video of this year’s grito dos excluidos with impressive scenes of black women searching for their sons or husbands. The missing persons have become victims of the ever-increasing violence against young black men.
Read more about the increasing violence against young people in Brazil in the in-house magazine of terre des hommes schweiz. (June 2013 issue).
