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Mais
cars don’t stop-there is no pedestrian right of way, so if you’re in the middle of the street and a car is coming, I suggest you run, quick! in addition to taking many showers a day, the water is always cold, which is what it is, but you still never quite get used to it…
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Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra = The Landless Workers’ Movement
The website’s in Portuguese but you should check out MST online through their website or other sites. This movement is amazing and powerful. I just spent two days with them on their land and in their houses.
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra
A different website in English that talks about the movement:
Photos from our visit:
Is it all bullshit?
Still here in Brazil discussing issues of social justice. And the question got raised in a different manner, but a real question nonetheless: is all of our liberal arts education discussions just a bunch of bullshit? We sit around in these “spaces” and discuss the “intersectionality” of social problems, use a lofty and prescribed vocabulary…
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like black butterflies 