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
This is a sign of the times.People world over is affected by the political maneuver which allow to remove the elected president of Brazil.. it is a take over -that i what a coup d'etat is, a take over for benefit of few, a reversal of advances in favor of SDGs, Human Rights, care of Planet. World over negative and retrograde impact.. peoples of global north must press their govts to understand and not legitimize these moves and it must happen now.. this is an opportunity not to be shaped but to shape the world needed to care for planet, life, humans.. hope we each do what is ..called for
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