Where to be happy is offense to the pain of the brother? Is it survival?



I participated in the 2018 World Social Forum in Bahia. There I lived special moments and lots of pain.



Salvador- Bahia is a beautiful place, just like my State, Rio de Janeiro, but this beauty offered by nature is not capable of overshadowing the greatest horror that is the disrespect of public power to life.



Misery contrasts with the natural joy of the people, the desire for a better world, the welcome is as intense as the need to survive.



There in Salvador, I participated in a talk round talking about Popular Communication. I went by chance, I had to go to Salvador. Upon arriving at the airport bathroom I met Elisa Nascimento, who invited me to her exhibition and went to see the work she deveMisery contrasts with the natural joy of the people, the desire for a better world, the welcome is as intense as the need to survive.lops preserving the memory of the vast collection of Abdias do Nascimento. Author of the book Genocide of the Brazilian Negro and who is turning 40, currently in the third edition.



Seeing the performance of the poet friend Nelson Maca and his daughters, I feel a relief in the soul, because of this embrace of the family, poetry and the issues of inequalities, especially the Negro, the beauty of the generations in a production of affection and commitment to the cause.



I leave this encounter stirred in the streets against the picture of inequality painted in colors of misery because of the lack of public policies. It falls at night and my eyes see a waterfall when I learn that Marielle Franco, a councilwoman from Rio de Janeiro had been executed. He was a person who defended people, who fought for the guarantee of human rights.



The next day I will attend a meeting that I saw the facebook post on the construction of a Communication Web in Brazil, the team responsible for the Nucleus Piratininga de Comunicação I know. It is formed by friends, who trained us to do community communication in the favela of Cidade de Deus. And in the video presented in the Forum I was, the staff of the newspaper CDD VIVE as well. A surprise and at the same time a certainty, we are recognized.



We were very sad and indignant at the death of Marielle, this meeting was painful because of the gravity of the incident and the affection bond, since everyone was a friend, some members had to return to Rio de Janeiro.



And I was invited to talk about the work developed in Cidade de Deus with the newspaper CDD VIVE.



I spoke about the indignation with the execution of Marielle Franco; the importance of giving visibility to the people of the community; the importance of SOLTEC / UFRJ in our learning; the importance of World Pulse in my life and the respect with which they deal in the capacity of each of the participants, I spoke of the prize and that I had been among the 20 women leaders of the world. That I was now a Changermaker, I did not know how to pronounce correctly, but that I am a Changermaker and that I am really just a woman who does, talks and wishes to be happy having protected and happy people around.



Now we are building a Communication Web in Brazil, just as we have our International World Pulse Network. We are artisans in time, we are embroiderers of life and I love to be part of this movement.



I see that in my group, in the newspaper, we are experiencing a moment of fragility, retreat, but I believe that we will still rise and follow the flow of communication. While I wait for the group to grow, I do not stop, I am with you, I am not alone, we are not alone. We are echoing in the world.



Of all that comforts me the most is knowing that even when you kill yourself, silencing a voice as powerful as Marielle Franco's, there are fragile voices, those that shout the sweet, the strong, voices in various powers throughout the world that are join and ask for justice.

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