ACTIVISM
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who we are Currently, Escola de Ativismo is a formally established nonprofit organization, which is organized in a democratic structure and with multiple leaders. The projects are designed and created in a complementary, transversal, and strategic manner while keeping autonomy in their implementation. The current most involved group in the school is made up of a multi-disciplinary group of environmentalists, experts in communication and pedagogy, biologists, human right advocates and social scientists with different specialties and career paths. They are principally based in São Paulo and in smaller numbers in Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro and Varginha.
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Most of the organization of the learning process is performed remotely, in home offices or in spaces assigned to workshops and meetings. The school is autonomous and independent from the supporting organizations, unions, political parties, companies and Governments.
THE IMPULSE The idea of creating an initiative like the school emerged in late 2010. The first step was to hold a series of meetings and interviews with activists, educators, politicians, leaders of social movements and environmentalists, as well carrying out research and preliminary studies about the proposal. Part of those interviewed would later make up what we call the “consultant cloud”, a group of professionals who accompany the evolution of the school, proposing ideas, advising and debating advances and challenges with theschool’s activists . In mid-( what?), a technical team devised a strategy for the initial implementation of the school’s project: the organization of its first basic course on theory and the practice of activism with a focus on sustainability. The first course “Activism and Mobilization for Sustainability” was planned and implemented in 2011 in São Paulo. At the end of 2011, the school established six strategic lines of performance and priorities. Since then, all activities developed are based upon these six lines.
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