A research conducted by the Rosa Luxemburgo Foundation and the Paulo Freire National School, in partnership with the federal government, systematized experiences of public policies in four Latin American countries that strengthen the community fabric and therole of social organizations in popular territoriesThe report "Public policies, social and community work, and popular education in Latin America" will be launched this Monday (28), at 6:00 PM, at the Expressão Popular bookstore, in the center of São Paulo (SP).
In an interview withIn the Morning, fromRádio Brasil de FatoJorge Pereira Filho, project coordinator at the Rosa Luxemburgo Foundation and one of the initiative's coordinators, explains that the research originated from experiences in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela. He explains that the countries have particularities, but they share a socio-economic formation linked to a dependent capitalism.
"In the case of Venezuela, we focused heavily on the experience of communes. In Argentina, we prioritized experiences related to the supplementary social wage, popular kitchens, and socio-educational work carried out in the periphery. In Mexico, we focused heavily on schools and clinics, with the participation of committees that define investments and also actively participate in the management of these units, in addition to, of course, public care policies. And in Colombia, we discussed extensively the public-popular alliances," he explains.
Luís Fernandes, research coordinator and professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), explains the concept of "community-based work"developed in the research.
"The study shows that there is a relationship between participation and work in the territories that the State should recognize. We draw attention to a dimension of concrete work, that is, a work that is not necessarily commercialized, is not related to the State, but is a work that sustains life in the territories, that is in care, in food, in education, even in caring for the environment. And the great struggle is that this type of work is recognized, that the State recognizes it, through public policies, that there is socially relevant work, community-based work, and that it should be the target of the construction of public policies", argues.
Jorge Pereira Filho observes that the results of each of these experiences point to a way of doing politics in which there is an active participation of communities in an organized way, stimulated by the State, with a strong presence in the territory. "These experiences point to a recovery of this social fabric so dilapidated by neoliberal policies in recent years", summarizes.
Service
Launch of the research "Public policies, social and community work, and popular education in Latin America"
Livraria Expressão Popular – Alameda Nothmann, nº 806, Campos Elíseos, São Paulo (SP)
Monday, September 28, at 6:00 PM
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