2004 in Brazil: launching local and national programs

Education

This year we diffused the Charter in two governmental programs and two others in a private Universities.

 The first one is with the National Program from the Ministry of Education: Vamos Cuidar do Brasil com as Escolas – Let’s take care of Brazil with the schools – for the 27 Brazilian states. The goal is to involve 16.000 schools (10 % of the total in the country) 32.000 teachers and 32.000 young people in the public schools. – two teachers and two students in each school. We started a methodology to discuss the responsibilities about the planet, about the country and local responsibilities. The instrument to do it is 27 states Seminars for multipliers educators and two national publications with a social control and participation working methodology. One of this publication is linked with the Charter in Portuguese on the web site of the Alliance. The methodology is to create a COMVIDA (vida means life, and convida means invite) in the school – it is a committee of quality of life in each school, involving parents, students, teachers, functionaries, community. All off then are invited to participated, to take the responsibilities.

 The second is a local educational program for the public schools – (São Paulo city) named Politic and Citizenship in the Schools. This course is organized by Ágora Institute in Defence of Voters and Democracy (in which I am in the direction). We have worked with the Charter directly with 590 educators in 21 polls in the city. The preparation was training teachers to discuss the Charter using the Brazilian video created for the Charter and the Charter publication. This action was linked with the theme local Governance. We distributed 600 Charters publications and 21 videos copy.

 UNISO Sorocaba SP University - Professor Marcos Reigota. He organised a diffusion inside the University with his students during the course and on a Seminar. They are also produced a video with deployments and reports about the Charter. I am including this material in a final report with annexes to present in Chile’s meeting.

 UNIUB Uberaba MG University - Viviane Oliveira Assistant of Professor Suely Bernardes included the Charter and the Booklets Alliance Proposals for the XXI Century in transversal course official program 2005 inside the Educators Multipliers Institute. They are able to be a diffusion polo to the Charter for next year.

 World Education Forum - São Paulo, Brazil, from April 1st to 4th we diffused the Charter in a action with Drums for Peace and in a meeting for teachers and students environmental program education.

 In Jaboticabal Village (internal of São Paulo state) was organised several meetings to create the Platform on Responsibilities. The initiative was organised by the local government education secretary with all the schools of the city. I am including this material in a final report with annexes to present in Chile’s meeting.

 Ribeirão Preto Village (internal of São Paulo state) local action - diffusion of the Charter with the publics schools – Creating the Environmental Education Yang People Network (linked with the national program Ministry of Education).

Social and Governance Experiences

Governance 2004 Project. During this year (April to December 2004) we diffused and studied the Charter together with 12 university students. They are participants of the Governance 2004 Project from Ágora Institute in Defence of Voters and Democracy. This Project is to reflect about the Booklets Alliance Proposals for the XXI Century in particular on the Governance point of view. We are analysing the 10 principles for the governance and the 10 Charter’s principles inside 12 social projects in Brazil - 8 in São Paulo Village, 4 in internal of São Paulo State and one more in Argentina (a social solidarity economy experience). Some of these social projects are becoming partners of the Charter diffusion – Examples like MST (Without lands Movement) and Vivacidade NGO from Ribeirão Preto Village.

Culture

We diffused the Charter during several cultural meetings.

 Regional Cultural Forum - Forum Intermunicipal de Cultura, Rio Claro SP, Brazil, June 17th to 23d.
Presentation of the Charter with the Video and distribution of the Charter, by Isis de Palma and Hamilton Faria.

 The Cultural World Forum World Cultural Forum, in São Paulo, Brazil, from June 28th to July, 6th.
Presentation of the Charter with the Video and distribution of Charters, by Isis de Palma in a meeting arrangement about the Charter during the WCF together with the São Paulo’s Group of the Alliance, IPAZ and Culture Working Group for the WSF that developed activities on the Alliance projects: Drums for Peace opened the meeting in a big area of the Forum together some members of the World Artists Network in the Alliance; a big number of Charters and flyers with the principles of the Charter were distributed. We discussed with artists, journalists and the public on the Responsibilities of the Media (Dialogs on the streets).

 Dialogs for Responsibilities of the Artists with Pólis Institute, October 20th (organised by Hamilton Faria).

Communication

 Seminary on Local and Global Governance, April 2004, with Pierre Calame (FPH).
Co – Organised by Pólis Institute and Ágora Institute. Press conference following the Alliance Propositions Booklets publication and distribution of the Charter to journalists.
Pólis Institute has published in Portuguese nine poposal booklets of the Alliance. A press conference was held in April 2004 to present the booklets, especially on the Local Governance. We used the event to distribute copies of the Charter to the journalists that were present at the conference.

In the same period (April during Pierre Calame visit in São Paulo, we organised a press conference - a communication action for the Charter. It was a special meeting with journalists only to discuss about responsibilities of the media.

Two Meetings with Journalist on the responsibilities of the journalists together with IPAZ – International Peace Agency in September 2004. The meeting was held answering the journalists appeal by the FPH (Manola Rauss) at the same time in Paris, Bangalore, Beiruth and São Paulo. We took the opportunity to present The Alliance and the Charter. This international group of journalists will be together in the WSF. It is very important link the appeal to the Charter.