The movement ´O Grito dos Excluídos´ started in Brazil in 1995 as an initiative of the Roman Catholic bishops to ask for attention for the people that are excluded of all what makes life worth as a human being. Since then the Grito has settled down in more than 20 countries in the Americas and the Caribbean.

 

In Brazil the Cry will be heard on Independence Day (Brazil got independent of Portugal on the 7th of September in 1822). This day has be chosen because a lot of people in Brazil still are not able to celebrate in the richness of this country. They are excluded: like there are the landless people, women, Afro-Brazilians and indigenous peoples. These people will go to the streets in several cities through out the country and let their ´Grito´ hear. As an answer on the military defile that is normally the main performance of this day.

 

Brazil is in a political crisis. The rumors and talks about who is involved in the corruption scandal are multiplying every day. This caused a sense of deception, but on the other hand gives also new opportunities to grow, to mature.

For this the topic of the Grito this year will be ‘ Brazil, change is in our hands’.

 

The face of the Grito is made by the paintings of the Ecuadorian painter Pavel Egüez. He wants to show that faith can motivate people in Latin America, to not resign themselves to violence and social exclusion, but instead to help them discover that another world is possible.

 

The objectives of the Grito:

 

– human dignity for everyone;

– fight against each form of social exclusion;

– strengthening the sovereignty of peoples;

protecting life;

– strengthening and support for all forms of protest against exclusion;

– resistance against each attack on a healthy and clean environment;

– fight against each form of obliged migration;

– stopping the payment of the foreign debt and indemnity for the social damage;

– suspension of the militarizing of the continent;

– maintaining of universal values such as labour, justice, life, peace, democracy, participation, sovereignty and solidarity.

 

More information:

– www.gritodosexcluidos.com.br

– www.paveleguez.com