(en) Terrae Liberdade - Letter written by perseguidxs professorxs and read the advice of Sepe (pt)

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Comrades of struggle, it is with great nostalgia and regret that I write this letter. 
Today, in this instance the union that has helped build, we can not be present to take the 
floor to discuss our policy and even to exchange warm hugs and cuddles with friends and 
comrades in struggle. We can not be present because not enough all the persecutions and 
imprisonment, today we have our political right were once hunted as institutional acts 
after 64 We are prevented by law from participating in demonstrations and "public 
meetings" in a clear attack on freedom and the right to demonstrate and a withdrawal of 
political rights dxs currently perseguidxs militantxs. The Court finds the "restrictions" 
a way to keep us off the streets and social movements, to take us off the streets.

How Many Voices @ s should know, we three - Rebecca, Philip and Peter, are on the list 23 
chasing protesters River by Article 288, "armed gang" - are teachers of the state system 
and are being persecuted for our fight in the strikes, by our membership in the union and 
our ideology. We meet today after the habeas corpus by Judge Siro Darlan in "bail" and 
can not leave Rio without judicial authorization, often having to introduce ourselves to 
justice, continuing with our phones tapped, still suffering surveillance in the streets as 
if we were criminals and now, after the 7 rod criminal decision, barred from participating 
in public meetings "and" manifestations ". The process is of course to put us in this 
fanciful survey, based on empty arguments and invented facts: not only want to achieve 
political organizations and independent activists, but also trade unions and social 
movements, and to this end we were chosen as the "scapegoat" simply by militarmos in Sepe 
(union most quoted in this survey its struggle in 2013 and 2014) and also in one of the 
organizations currently pursued.

We are anarchists yes (with pride), campaigned in anarchist organization and today we are 
persecuted in the same manner and with the same stereotypes that hit oper?rixs anarchists 
a century ago atr?s.N?o are anarchists because we were with "bombs in rucksacks", we are 
"against collective "and want to" destroy everything ", as it appears in the press and in 
the survey itself. We are against this stereotype created to criminalize lutadorxs! Us 
anarchists because we want an egalitarian society, believe in freedom and believe that 
they can not be created through reforms in capitalism and a nation that was born to hold 
and protect the source of inequality. Struggling by ways of organizing society, possible 
ways, such as exist today between the Zapatistas in Mexico, such as Oaxaca Commune (2009), 
the Paris Commune, such as self-managed Catalonia of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), 
like Russia of 1917-19 before the state bureaucracy and the single party, among other 
experiences born in the twentieth century, defeated, but they indicate the paths and make 
us learn from history and its mistakes.

We disagree, therefore, with the foundations of the police investigation 
218-01-646-2013 (Civil Police) that classifies anarchism as a criminal philosophy, 
associated with terror and violence, and the Anarchist Organisation Land and Freedom 
(OATL) , the which we are part, as the representative of this doctrine in Rio de Janeiro 
and Sepe. According to the survey, we are responsible for what they call acts of violence 
in the union, resulting in a complete nonsense because violence has always been promoted 
by police and generalized form.

We emphasize that at no time "foster" violence instead (if we promote something, is 
freedom and resistance). We as a whole category, we are victims of the action of a State 
acting violently assaulting us in the marches, to arrest us, to threaten us from 
resignation to sue us, by discounting our salary, to get us out of our stocking. Since 
last year we have suffered from this type of violence. A teacher and militant OATL was 
hospitalized for over two weeks at Souza Aguiar hospital have been hit by the police at 
the demonstration of 15 October, where over 200 people were arrested arbitrarily. A mate 
had his parents' home raided by federal police. One of the companions arrested in recent 
demonstrations, as referred to in the survey, was beaten by 15 police still dragged 
through the streets of Lapa and carried for more than two hours in a paddy wagon car. 
Todoxs xs nossxs militants operating in Sepe were descontadxs in wages and suffered 
abandonment processes. Fellow Philip Proenca, arrested and persecuted by this survey, is 
now suffering from another case of abandonment. How it works in Mage and is legally barred 
from leaving the district of Rio, as established habeas corpus, he can not take his 
classes and SEEDUC takes advantage of this fact absurd to prosecute him and threaten him 
to resign, rather than transfer it to the river where schools lack teachers or wait for 
permission from the judge so he can spend the week in Mage, where he works and lives most 
of the week.

The survey, in the name associates the anarchist philosophy and OATL the "use of violence" 
and to "encourage the commission of crimes", which is a mere reproduction (misleading) 
images criminalizing anarchism since he came.

We know we were anarchists who founded the first free trade unions in Brazil, who drew the 
first strikes, which created the first schools to oper?rixs, the first prolet?rixs 
theaters, fairs mutual-aid, child care, neighborhood associations, peasant associations, 
among other forms of organization and class solidarity. Even so, they built on was this 
image that noted above, as now received the same ratings, stereotypes that ignore the 
OATL helps build projects of popular education in the Morro da Providencia, the hose, the 
Occupation homeless Chiquinha Gonzaga, the collective homeless Quilombo of Warriors, the 
communities of Marica in public schools and universities, among other places. We have the 
strength of our membership in the social movement, we believe in the organization and 
action of the people, but as outrxs anarchists, a century ago, are characterized as 
criminals who walk with daggers and guns pointed at anyone, as if we found that the action 
of one or a few individuals, even if just in their revolt, they could build the world we seek.

To increase the criminal content of our group also sue us for "solicitation of minors." 
According to the survey:. "Function OATL is also a constituent of the regimentation or 
cooptation of new members and sympathizers" By this logic, is scheduled to impossibility 
and the criminal dimension of any militancy with the student movement and any education 
involving work with children and adolescents. Elsewhere, following a similar logic, the 
police takes to criminalize other social movement, the GEP (Group of Popular Education), 
which is not and never was an "arm of OATL" having even born years before this organization.

We find it interesting that the investigation deems as "praiseworthy" the "job-free 
pre-college to the slums", made by GEP, because our performance this militancy was born 
and long before the popular uprising of June and just revolt of the people in the streets. 
Turns that we as anarchists and anarchists do not believe in "backdrops", do not think 
that the social movement must be directed and controlled by political organizations, we do 
not believe in cooptions or doctrines or authorities. As we said, the GEP was born before 
we and is only one of the spaces where we work together to outrxs independent militantxs 
that make up the group. Our performance in Sepe, even as the militantxs OATL, GEP is given 
in public education, which is the area of activity of GEP in public schools and alunxs 
educadorxs. But of course, the state does not think that way and uses the negative stigmas 
that fall on anarchism for demonstrating the OATL and criminalize us. But the lies are 
being exposed, all fiction riding this process is being exposed, and we realize that it is 
not just anarchism or certain groups being persecuted, but the right to think, to struggle 
and to organize itself in movements social. This persecution is not disconnected from 
salary cuts imposed by Mayor Eduardo Paes and Bigfoot, the way the state has charged the 
replacement for the legalization and criminalization of strikes, the threat of dismissal 
against strikers educators. Therefore, we can not shrink nor fear! We need to organize 
ourselves more and keep doing what we've always done, which is to dialogue with xs 
trabalhadorxs in their daily lives, in schools, in the slums, in the workplace, in the 
field, to strengthen the social movement and the strength of our class against the State, 
Justice against the state and against the bosses.

We ask finally that Sepe get involved in this fight against the criminalization of their 
rank and file against the criminalization made against the union itself (the main target, 
to reach us) and the end of restrictions that now prevent us from being with and you read 
this letter. S atoms political persecution, but many others are also teachers and sepe 
admirably carries with it the fact that one of the most combative categories of Brazil, 
needing to be strong right now, and solidarity to overcome all this repression falls upon 
us and the institution.

BUILD THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE!

The fight is just beginning.

Rebecca, Philip and Peter,

Anarchist Organisation Land and Freedom (OATL)