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Augusto Boal – Theatre of the Oppressed has no end

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Here are some quotes by Augusto Boal about his notion of ‘Theatre of the Oppressed', taken from his 1992 book ‘Games for Actors and Non-Actors'. Agusto sadly died last week. Inspired by Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed he understood the acti...

Back in Africa, Forward to Another World.

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Teivo Teivainen The International Council (IC) of the World Social Forum (WSF) decided today, 8 May 2009, in Rabat that the next WSF shall be organized in Dakar in 2011. The Senegalese capital was presented as a consensual proposal of the Council of the ...

Se aproxima IV Cumbre Continental de los Pueblos Indígenas

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Del 27 al 31 de Mayo, la región de Puno, Perú, va a ser el escenario de confluencia para ideas, debates, alternativas, reivindicaciones y demás demandas que caminan en dirección a la consolidación de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas. Se trata de...

Boal died

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Augusto Boal died of respiratory failure following a long battle with leukemia, according to Elisa Nunes, a spokeswoman for Rio's Hospital Samaritano. He created Theater of the Oppressed in the early 1960s as a way to establish a dialogue between audience...

Palavras que Boal deixou pra nós

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"A mídia costuma publicar só o que é espetacular, sensacional, mesmo que tenha que esconder a verdade. Hoje, fala-se mais da cor da pele de Barrack Obama do que do seu projeto político, como ontem falou-se mais dos seios da Carla Bruni do que das idéi...

Release the Palestinian Activists arrested in AL Ma’Sara!

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Above: Soldiers block the road at a previous demonstration in al-Ma'sara. Photo: Stop the wall On May 1, people from the village of al-Ma'sara and the neighbouring villages in Bethlehem area commemorated Workers Day with a march in protest against the Ap...

A gente aprende ensinando

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No próximo 16 de março, o teatrólogo Augusto Boal completa 77 anos, mas não há nada no seu discurso e no seu jeito de pensar o mundo que indique que ele não seja um jovem. Até na aparência, Boal engana bem. Mas há algo que denúncia sua longa traj...

[en] The struggle of the Sahrawi people for Self-determination [fr] La lutte du peuple sahraoui pour son autodétermination [es] La Lucha del Pueblo Sahraui por su Autodeterminación [pt] A luta do povo sahraui pela sua autodeterminação [it]La lotta del popolo saharawi per l’ autodeterminazione

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[en] Western Sahara the former spanish colony is the last african colonized country still waiting for independence. Since 1973 the Polisario Front is fighting for independence. 1975 Morocco and Mauritania invaded the country. Most of the civilian populatio...