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The Igarapé Institute, together with almost 40 partner organizations, has launched “Civic Space is Our Space – An Agenda for Democracy Protection”. The Agenda brings a set of proposals for citizens to actively defend civic space. Civic space belongs to all of us.
All of us.
Every day, we are witnessing the suffocation of Brazilian democracy.
But what can we do right now to protect our civic space? The agenda offers some practical examples of actions each of us can take.
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civil society organizations united against anti democratic attacks
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practical actions for people and institutions to engage in protecting civic space
“Civic Space is Our Space” was designed to inspire civil society in building a more inclusive democracy.
The publication is part of a larger, permanent project which contains the podcast series “You Can Change the World” (in Portuguese); the book “In defense of civic space”(soon to be published in English) and a quarterly bulletin that monitors threats to democracy and the reactions they generate. The publication lists strategies and tactics based on Igarapé Institute’s own sociological typology, described in the Strategic Article 49: “The Agora is under attack: assessing the closure of civic space in Brazil and around the world”. The document was updated with a new in “A Typology to Understand Strategies and Tactics for Attacking the Civic Space”.
Populist and authoritarian governments are censoring public debate and harassing academics, artists, activists, scientists and journalists. We need to protect our democracy and protect ourselves.
Watch the video, produced by Igarapé Institute, in which social entrepreneur Caetano Scannavino, volleyball player Carolina Solberg, indigenous activist Célia Xakriabá, anthropologist Debora Diniz, YouTube influencer Felipe Neto, our president Ilona Szabó, journalist Leonardo Sakamoto, epidemiologist Pedro Hallal, scientist Ricardo Galvão and actress Zezé Motta speak out about attacks they suffered because of their work and active voices.
Understand why attacking civic space is to attack the people:
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Colective Action
Follow the hashtag
#OurCivicSpace
Check out messages from our ambassadors on social media to learn about and to multiply our messages and those of our ambassadors.
People from all political and ideological perspectives can engage.
The defense of civic space takes the action of many.
Meet our partners in this agenda:
HOW TO ACT
You too can protect civic space
Engage in social media using the hashtag
#OurCivicSpace
Tag Igarapé Institute on social media so we can amplify our messages and those of our ambassadors!
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