Message of Brazilian Collective of Black Movement organizations to Brazilian Society

CEN - Coletivo de Entidades Negras

To President Dilma Rousseff

(With copy to)

Interim President and Putschist Michel Temer

Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General

Luis Almagro, OAS (Organization of American States)

COLLECTIVE RESIGNATION FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Due to the parliamentary, judiciary and media-driven coup that suspended the mandate of the legitimately elected President, Dilma Rousseff, and to the setup of the interim government of vice-president Michel Temer, who clearly conspired against the President, in disrespect of the Democratic State governed by the rule of law and in an attack to democracy, the “Coletivo de Entidades Negras - CEN”, a political organization of the Black Movement in Brazil, publicly declares its decision today for all its affiliates to resign immediately from all the seats assigned to CEN in the representative bodies to the Federal Government (councils, commissions and working groups).

In addition to this irrevocable decision, we seize this opportunity to denounce that the putschist and illegitimate government has shown its racist face and its lack of commitment to Brazilian black women and men with the appointment of a ministerial cabinet integrated exclusively by white men, many of whom are involved in corruption scandals, as well as with the extinction of the Secretary for Racial Equality, Women and Human Rights, although aware of the statistical data presented by the latest census, according to which the black people represents more than 50% of the Brazilian population.

Therefore, CEN makes public its non-recognition of an illegitimate and putschist government oriented by an agenda that aims to reduce rights and backtrack on all advances of the social movements over the last 30 years, and we are fully aware that the truly resistance to this coup d’état will take place on the streets, alleys, favelas and outskirts of this country, where we will fight for the restoration of a full democracy which guarantees the validity of the 54 million votes that legitimately elected the President Dilma Rousseff.

Salvador, 17 May 2016

Sincerely,

National Coordination of CEN     

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