Em vez de eu esperar um belo dia em que terei tempo para escrever o artigo com calma, pensei em fazer um post escrevendo desestruturadamente tentando captar essência de ideias.
Tenho visitado as pessoas do Núcleo Rural Monjolo aqui no Distrito Federal. Para conhecer melhor, clique aqui e aqui. Já em um outro artigo eu elaborei sobre a motivação de pensar em espiritualidades engajadas a partir da cultura. Por que pensar em espiritualidade e cultura? Porque penso que há uma chance de pessoas cultivarem com linguagens que façam mais sentido e que, portanto, seriam autênticas.
Comunidades como a do Monjolo parecem-me ser interessantes para o desenvolvimento de novas 'formas' de ser igreja e de repensar liturgia porque i) pessoas são religiosas, ii) há pessoas politicamente engajadas e iii) é uma comunidade acostumada com o sofrimento , iv) há diversidade de religiões. Não sei o que esperar da influência da herança cultural evangélica, porém. Pode ajudar ou pode atrapalhar.
A ideia inicial seria o desenvolvimento de algo tipo uma CEB (Comunidade Eclesial de Base). Só que tentando desenvolver aos poucos junto com a comunidade uma linguagem própria. Pulo por cima da eclesiologia por enquanto e vou direto para a liturgia. A questão da eclesiologia seria mais ampla e mais importante.
O que nortearia essa liturgia?
- A linguagem deve ser construída com a comunidade. Não funcionará bem se eu pensar a coisa toda e dar 'mastigada' porque não vai fazer muito sentido.
- Usar coisas do cotidiano deles. Procurar embutir no cotidiano os rituais, e/ou derivar os rituais do cotidiano.
- A história deles deve ser frequentemente lembrada.
- Deve haver lugar para a espontaneidade.
- Usar objetos e símbolos que tenham significado para eles. Criar novos símbolos.
- Uso de recursos visuais.
- Resgatar e incentivar traços folclóricos antigos. Preservar vários, alterar alguns fazendo alusão a 'espiritualidade'.
- Ainda na linha de uso de objetos do cotidiano, integrar gestos e danças.
- Evitar o uso de músicas evangélicas num primeiro instante.
- Trechos cantados ou recitados que incluam indivíduos e grupo.
- Incorporar a preparação de refeições em grupo como parte da liturgia. Incorporar gestos e danças e falas à preparação.
- Ver a refeição em grupo como eucaristia.
Ainda: verificar com Teólogos, Antropólogo e Psicólogos liturgias e ir aprimorando frequentemente. Construir liturgias em conjunto com 'movimentos sociais' presentes na comunidade ou relacionados à ela.
Showing posts with label Monjolo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monjolo. Show all posts
Friday, November 05, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Monjolo - 4
After the ordeal, families at Núcleo Rural Monjolo were asking the government "why?", "what's the plan?", "how long?", all reasonable questions. After months of questions and no answers and no actions, it became clear that the government wasn't going to do anything. Families insisted to call the media to go there. Most of the time, the media went there and the government answered that they were working to solve all the problems. There was an instance when a local newspaper went there. In the printed story the government falsely reported that they distributed construction material and food to the local residents. Many people report that they just couldn't talk to anyone from the government when they tried to go to the governmental building complex (which, of course, is far away from where they are).
Since 2008 until today many other removals happened at Cidade Estrutural. They removed more families to Monjolo and to other areas. At Monjolo alone today there are 70 families that were displaced by the government in other areas. This year alone there were at least 2 removal operations. In one, about 1 month ago, of them government employees threatened a family of a single mother with 6 children. They said that if she didn't leave that they would take away her children. She decided to lock herself in her house. The government employees decided to break into her home. They fought. Neighbours came bringing their cellphones with cameras. She still refused to leave and they left. Her neighbour wasn't so lucky. They convinced her to leave.
Another removal operation happened about 3 months ago at Cidade Estrutural. And that's at Cidade Estrutural alone.
I didn't mention the removal operations from Brazlândia, that happened one month ago. They were 800 families (yes, 800 families) living under 250 tents that occupied a piece of land far away in the District, and police went there to remove them.
See also:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Since 2008 until today many other removals happened at Cidade Estrutural. They removed more families to Monjolo and to other areas. At Monjolo alone today there are 70 families that were displaced by the government in other areas. This year alone there were at least 2 removal operations. In one, about 1 month ago, of them government employees threatened a family of a single mother with 6 children. They said that if she didn't leave that they would take away her children. She decided to lock herself in her house. The government employees decided to break into her home. They fought. Neighbours came bringing their cellphones with cameras. She still refused to leave and they left. Her neighbour wasn't so lucky. They convinced her to leave.
Another removal operation happened about 3 months ago at Cidade Estrutural. And that's at Cidade Estrutural alone.
I didn't mention the removal operations from Brazlândia, that happened one month ago. They were 800 families (yes, 800 families) living under 250 tents that occupied a piece of land far away in the District, and police went there to remove them.
See also:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Monjolo - 3
And so in 2008, 40 families were removed from their homes and placed at Núcleo Rural Monjolo. It was supposed to be a temporary shelter until the homes back at Cidade Estrutural were ready. There at Núcleo Rural Monjolo there was nothing. No sewage, no work, no transportation, no health, no water, no electrical energy, no school transportation, no toilet. The government put about 2 chemical toilets there. After a month or two they stopped sending people to clean them.
See also:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 4
See also:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 4
Monjolo - 2
The removal process was a terrible event. The government brought in the police to force people out of their homes. At times children were alone in their homes, with their mother out to work. They still came and told the children to leave. And they began destroying homes right away with hammers. The government brought in trucks to carry away the dump generated with the home demolitions. Actually, the "move" of furniture and reusable construction materials were often mixed with dump of demolitions. So most people lost their furniture too. Moreover, the government brought in jailed criminals to work on the removal, which was strictly forbidden in the Brasília Sustentável plan. Friends of mine at Monjolo later on spoke to me of seeing "movers" stealing furniture at the date with the help of local residents.
Joaquim showed to me the 48 hour "notice" that the government "served" them with to leave their homes. It had 2 sentences that didn't say much. It didn't say why they had to leave. It wasn't signed by a judge - and it had to be. It didn't say how long they were to be displaced. It didn't say where they were to go. And of course it didn't mention anything about their rights.
I heard a man saying that he spent more than R$ 15 000 on his home. Considering the minimum wage is R$ 510, if he earned 2 minimum wages and put 1 minimum wage monthly toward his house, it would have taken him 2 years and a half to build it. That is, the government likely took away at least 2 years and a half of his earnings, not counting the value of the land!
The government employees also told them (including the children who were home alone)that the sewage work was urgently necessary. That there was a huge storm in the forecast for the following day that was going to wash them away and kill them all. And that they had to leave immediately.
This was July 2008.
The original plan was for the government to build a number of houses within Cidade Estrutural prior to the removal, and for these families to move there. The houses were not ready, however. There was another important problem with the houses: they were built next to the garbage dump. When it rains, liquid residue flowed from the garbage dump to the houses, flooding them with smelly waste. Also, the houses were very small. Many families had more than 6 members. Later on in 2010, a local association went to justice against the government, against the move to these houses. An inspection was performed by justice officials and technicians. They determined that no one could live under those conditions, and justice vetoed the houses.
Still at Estrutural, some of the families were forcibly put on the "social rental" program of the government. However, the government paid their rentals whenever they wanted, that is, once in a while. So often these families were expelled by landlords 3, 4 times. I knew a woman who moved 8 times with the "social rental" program! Today she suffers from severe depression. She - and a number of families - are traumatized with the whole story.
Back to July 2008, these 40 families were removed to a "temporary" place called Monjolo. They put them under sailcloth.
See also
Part 1
Part 3
Part 4
Joaquim showed to me the 48 hour "notice" that the government "served" them with to leave their homes. It had 2 sentences that didn't say much. It didn't say why they had to leave. It wasn't signed by a judge - and it had to be. It didn't say how long they were to be displaced. It didn't say where they were to go. And of course it didn't mention anything about their rights.
I heard a man saying that he spent more than R$ 15 000 on his home. Considering the minimum wage is R$ 510, if he earned 2 minimum wages and put 1 minimum wage monthly toward his house, it would have taken him 2 years and a half to build it. That is, the government likely took away at least 2 years and a half of his earnings, not counting the value of the land!
The government employees also told them (including the children who were home alone)that the sewage work was urgently necessary. That there was a huge storm in the forecast for the following day that was going to wash them away and kill them all. And that they had to leave immediately.
This was July 2008.
The original plan was for the government to build a number of houses within Cidade Estrutural prior to the removal, and for these families to move there. The houses were not ready, however. There was another important problem with the houses: they were built next to the garbage dump. When it rains, liquid residue flowed from the garbage dump to the houses, flooding them with smelly waste. Also, the houses were very small. Many families had more than 6 members. Later on in 2010, a local association went to justice against the government, against the move to these houses. An inspection was performed by justice officials and technicians. They determined that no one could live under those conditions, and justice vetoed the houses.
Still at Estrutural, some of the families were forcibly put on the "social rental" program of the government. However, the government paid their rentals whenever they wanted, that is, once in a while. So often these families were expelled by landlords 3, 4 times. I knew a woman who moved 8 times with the "social rental" program! Today she suffers from severe depression. She - and a number of families - are traumatized with the whole story.
Back to July 2008, these 40 families were removed to a "temporary" place called Monjolo. They put them under sailcloth.
See also
Part 1
Part 3
Part 4
Monjolo - 1
I have been following the case of the Monjolo neighbourhood. Monjolo - or Núcleo Rural Monjolo - is the name of a poor rural neighbourhood here in Brasília, Brazil.
Let me try to write down their story.
The story begins at Cidade Estrutural, another city within the Federal District of Brazil. In July of 2007, TERRACAP, the government branch that looks after land allocation and urban "planning", went to speak to a number of people saying the government was going to build an Olympic Villa and that they had to move. Most of the families survived by picking garbage, recycling garbage, or with small occasional services. Some of the families had enough area for small plantations to grow some vegetables. Most of them was going through the process of getting their land ownership papers. When they moved there, that was "no man's land". On average these families lived there 15 years before the forced removal. (Speaking to people of other neighbourhoods, I learned that here in the Federal District it is common for poor families to apply for land ownership, with lawyers of good faith or pro-bono, but the government doesn't hand out "official" papers, just because they are poor. They end up getting some papers where the land is kind of theirs. )
After July 2007 a year went by and nothing happened. Until government employees and a local deputy (Eliana Pedrosa, who is a candidate again in 2010) showed up and handed out a notice that these 40 families had 48 hours to leave their homes. The community leader, Ismael, said at the time that in a closed-door meeting with the then Governor Mr. Arruda, the Governor said that these families would have to leave peacefully or by force.
A little more context. And this context is specially important for folks in North America and Europe. The government of the Federal District got a US$ 115,000,000 (15 million US$) loan from the World Bank to implement a project called "Brasília Sustentável" (Sustainable Brasília). The contract is registered as contract number 7326-BR. This plan contemplated a number of urban changes throughout the District. For the Cidade Estrutural it included the construction of an Olympic Villa, the construction of popular homes for displaced families and sewage. Part of the money was to be used to completely shutdown the local garbage dump. Indeed, Cidade Estrutural began because of the local garbage dump, which attracted families that had nothing and survived eating from the garbage and recycling paper and plastic from the garbage. The money was completely consumed. The garbage dump is there until today. The Olympic Villa is nearly finished. By 2008 the houses were not ready. However, the planned time schedule agreed with the World Bank required the government of the Federal District to remove a number of families for sewage work. If that wasn't done the World Bank would not forward the second part of the loan to the government. So the government rushed to comply with the time table. The government removed 40 families by force from Cidade Estrutural to the Núcleo Rural Monjolo. Núcleo Rural Monjolo had no infrastructure whatsoever.
To be continued.
Below are some photos at Núcleo Rural Monjolo in 2010.
Let me try to write down their story.
The story begins at Cidade Estrutural, another city within the Federal District of Brazil. In July of 2007, TERRACAP, the government branch that looks after land allocation and urban "planning", went to speak to a number of people saying the government was going to build an Olympic Villa and that they had to move. Most of the families survived by picking garbage, recycling garbage, or with small occasional services. Some of the families had enough area for small plantations to grow some vegetables. Most of them was going through the process of getting their land ownership papers. When they moved there, that was "no man's land". On average these families lived there 15 years before the forced removal. (Speaking to people of other neighbourhoods, I learned that here in the Federal District it is common for poor families to apply for land ownership, with lawyers of good faith or pro-bono, but the government doesn't hand out "official" papers, just because they are poor. They end up getting some papers where the land is kind of theirs. )
After July 2007 a year went by and nothing happened. Until government employees and a local deputy (Eliana Pedrosa, who is a candidate again in 2010) showed up and handed out a notice that these 40 families had 48 hours to leave their homes. The community leader, Ismael, said at the time that in a closed-door meeting with the then Governor Mr. Arruda, the Governor said that these families would have to leave peacefully or by force.
A little more context. And this context is specially important for folks in North America and Europe. The government of the Federal District got a US$ 115,000,000 (15 million US$) loan from the World Bank to implement a project called "Brasília Sustentável" (Sustainable Brasília). The contract is registered as contract number 7326-BR. This plan contemplated a number of urban changes throughout the District. For the Cidade Estrutural it included the construction of an Olympic Villa, the construction of popular homes for displaced families and sewage. Part of the money was to be used to completely shutdown the local garbage dump. Indeed, Cidade Estrutural began because of the local garbage dump, which attracted families that had nothing and survived eating from the garbage and recycling paper and plastic from the garbage. The money was completely consumed. The garbage dump is there until today. The Olympic Villa is nearly finished. By 2008 the houses were not ready. However, the planned time schedule agreed with the World Bank required the government of the Federal District to remove a number of families for sewage work. If that wasn't done the World Bank would not forward the second part of the loan to the government. So the government rushed to comply with the time table. The government removed 40 families by force from Cidade Estrutural to the Núcleo Rural Monjolo. Núcleo Rural Monjolo had no infrastructure whatsoever.
To be continued.
Below are some photos at Núcleo Rural Monjolo in 2010.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Documentário sobre Monjolo em formato eletrônico grátis
O documentário "Monjolo: Todo Mundo Tá Feliz?" está disponível em formato digital gratuitamente.
Você pode vê-lo diretamente neste site: http://www.vimeo.com/13156660
Você também pode baixar o arquivo do DVD e gravar um DVD em casa. Veja como fazê-lo:
Pré-requisitos:
1- Um programa que grave um DVD, como o ImgBurn (acesse http://www.imgburn.com/ ou http://www.baixatudo.com.br/imgburn )
2- Um programa cliente de Torrent, como o µTorrent (acesse http://www.utorrent.com/ )
3- Um drive de DVD e um DVD virgem.
Instruções:
1- Instale os programas de pré-requisito acima.
2- Utilize o µTorrent para fazer o download do arquivo .torrent. Faça o download do arquivo .torrent. Abra o arquivo .torrent com o programa µTorrent. Isso fará com que o download do DVD comece. O download do DVD pode demorar, pois é um arquivo grande. O nome do arquivo é Monjolo_DVDStyler_dvd_image.iso.
3- Após o fim do download com o µTorrent, você terá em seu computador um arquivo chamado Monjolo_DVDStyler_dvd_image.iso de cerca de 2,9 Gb de tamanho. (Um arquivo .iso com a imagem de um DVD é um arquivo que contém todo o conteúdo do DVD.)
4- Abra o programa ImgBurn. Insira o DVD virgem no drive de DVD.
5- No ImgBurn, selecione "Write image file to disc".
6- Em "Source", clique no ícone de uma pasta amarela para abrir o arquivo de imagem do DVD: Monjolo_DVDStyler_dvd_image.iso.
7- Clique na figura de baixo para gravar o DVD.
8- Espere a conclusão da gravação do DVD. (Nota: o programa ImgBurn pode abrir o drive do DVD e pedir para você fechá-lo para verificação. Isto pode acontecer ou não dependendo do seu hardware). O DVD está pronto!
Você pode vê-lo diretamente neste site: http://www.vimeo.com/13156660
Você também pode baixar o arquivo do DVD e gravar um DVD em casa. Veja como fazê-lo:
Pré-requisitos:
1- Um programa que grave um DVD, como o ImgBurn (acesse http://www.imgburn.com/ ou http://www.baixatudo.com.br/imgburn )
2- Um programa cliente de Torrent, como o µTorrent (acesse http://www.utorrent.com/ )
3- Um drive de DVD e um DVD virgem.
Instruções:
1- Instale os programas de pré-requisito acima.
2- Utilize o µTorrent para fazer o download do arquivo .torrent. Faça o download do arquivo .torrent. Abra o arquivo .torrent com o programa µTorrent. Isso fará com que o download do DVD comece. O download do DVD pode demorar, pois é um arquivo grande. O nome do arquivo é Monjolo_DVDStyler_dvd_image.iso.
3- Após o fim do download com o µTorrent, você terá em seu computador um arquivo chamado Monjolo_DVDStyler_dvd_image.iso de cerca de 2,9 Gb de tamanho. (Um arquivo .iso com a imagem de um DVD é um arquivo que contém todo o conteúdo do DVD.)
4- Abra o programa ImgBurn. Insira o DVD virgem no drive de DVD.
5- No ImgBurn, selecione "Write image file to disc".
6- Em "Source", clique no ícone de uma pasta amarela para abrir o arquivo de imagem do DVD: Monjolo_DVDStyler_dvd_image.iso.
7- Clique na figura de baixo para gravar o DVD.
8- Espere a conclusão da gravação do DVD. (Nota: o programa ImgBurn pode abrir o drive do DVD e pedir para você fechá-lo para verificação. Isto pode acontecer ou não dependendo do seu hardware). O DVD está pronto!
Monday, July 12, 2010
Documentário - "Monjolo: Todo Mundo Tá Feliz?"
O documentário mostra o drama de várias famílias que subsistiam do lixão na Vila Estrutural no Distrito Federal e que foram removidas à força para uma Área de Proteção Ambiental Permanente pelo Governo do Distrito Federal. Vídeo produzido pelos Evangélicos Pela Justiça (EPJ) em 2010. Para ter mais informações sobre o filme ou sobre formas de ajudar as famílias do Monjolo acesse www.epj.org.br .
Adquira já o DVD "Monjolo: Todo Mundo Tá Feliz?" !
Igrejas: Organizem uma reunião do seu grupo caseiro ou Escola Bíblica Dominical para ver e debater o filme "Monjolo: Todo Mundo Tá Feliz?". Acompanha um Guia de Discussão para o grupo e um Guia para Líder.
Universidades, Bibliotecas Públicas e Escolas: Entrem em contato com o EPJ para adquirir o filme e promover debates.
Roteiro e produção: Gustavo K-fé Frederico
Entrevistas: Caroline Soares
Imagens: Webson Dias
Trilha sonora: Maurício Domene - Estúdio Next
Locução: Bernardo Hanssen
Link do filme: http://www.vimeo.com/13156660
Monjolo: Todo Mundo Tá Feliz? de Gustavo Frederico no Vimeo.
Adquira já o DVD "Monjolo: Todo Mundo Tá Feliz?" !
Igrejas: Organizem uma reunião do seu grupo caseiro ou Escola Bíblica Dominical para ver e debater o filme "Monjolo: Todo Mundo Tá Feliz?". Acompanha um Guia de Discussão para o grupo e um Guia para Líder.
Universidades, Bibliotecas Públicas e Escolas: Entrem em contato com o EPJ para adquirir o filme e promover debates.
Roteiro e produção: Gustavo K-fé Frederico
Entrevistas: Caroline Soares
Imagens: Webson Dias
Trilha sonora: Maurício Domene - Estúdio Next
Locução: Bernardo Hanssen
Link do filme: http://www.vimeo.com/13156660
Monjolo: Todo Mundo Tá Feliz? de Gustavo Frederico no Vimeo.
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