Centre of People's Movements

Centre of People's Movements

Central de Movimentos Populares
Abbreviation	CMP
Formation	October 1993
Legal status	Social movement
Purpose	housing, health, minority rights, solidarity economy, among others

The Centre of People's Movements or Popular Movements Central (Portuguese : Central de Movimentos Populares, CMP) is a Brazilian left-wing social movement organization that articulate various social urban movements in their common and general struggles, such as housing, health, women, blacks, solidarity economy, among others. ^[1]

Founded after a national meeting of social movements in Belo Horizonte in 1993, the CPM is the fruit of a historic process of resistance by several combative popular social movements for social struggles during the 1980s, such as the defense of the right to the city and a Brazilian democratic project for the country able to guarantee wide social involvement. ^[1] The need to create a toll able to coordinate and to join forces between various social movements in the struggle for rights and for the construction of public policies was the main purpose of creating the CPM, and continues as a guiding principle of its performance. ^[2]

Thereafter, the CPM starts to get involved in some of the main social struggles in Brazil, such the Cry of the Excluded, ^{[3] [4]} national campaign and caravans in defense of rights, ^{[5] [6]} demonstrations against the implementation of privatization and neoliberal agenda, ^{[7] [8]} and marches to promote employment and the economic and social development.

In recent years, it also played an important role as one of the leftist and social organization involved in protests against the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff ^[9] and in the Free Lula movement. ^{[3] [10]}

See also

• Landless Workers' Movement

References

1. Carvalho, Sonia Regina Ribeiro de (2007). A central de movimentos populares e o processo brasileiro de democratização: uma trajetória em construção – 1993–2003 (phD) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. S2CID   151955645.
2. Aquino, Yara (5 September 2015). "Movimentos sociais lançam frente para propor o desenvolvimento do país" [Social movements launch front to propose the country's development]. Agência Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Brasília . Retrieved 3 May 2020.
3. "Cry of the Excluded denounces violence, cost of living, and Lula's prison in Brazil". Brasil de Fato. 7 September 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
4. "Cry of the Excluded brings tens of thousands to the streets of Brazil". Peoples Dispatch. 9 September 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
5. Oliveira, Marcelo (1 April 1997). "Sem-terra e sem-teto farão marcha" [Landless and homeless will march]. Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). São Paulo . Retrieved 3 May 2020.
6. "Líderes vão ao DF para Caravana da Moradia" [Social leaders go to Brasilia to Caravana da Moradia]. Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). São Paulo. 19 May 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
7. "Movimentos populares protestam em SP contra privatizações e reformas" [Social movements protest in SP against privatizations and reforms]. G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). São Paulo. 30 November 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
8. "Em defesa da soberania e contra privatizações de Bolsonaro e Doria, frente parlamentar é lançada em São Paulo" [In defense of sovereignty and against privatizations of Bolsonaro and Doria, parliamentary front is launched in São Paulo]. Rede Brasil Atual (in Brazilian Portuguese). São Paulo. 20 September 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
9. Brian Mier (13 November 2017). "The State of the Brazilian Left: Analysis from an American in Brazil". Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
10. Nation Nyoka (12 November 2019). "Lula da Silva is free and fighting fit". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 3 May 2020.