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Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens
Summary
The Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (Movement of People Affected by Dams) (MAB) is a Brazilian political organization (social movement) created in the end of the 1970s with the objective of organize and guide the people affected by the dams to pursuit their rights.
The Movement of People Affected by Dams has a long history of resistance, struggles and conquests. It emerged in the 1980s, through experiences of local and regional organization, facing threats and aggressions suffered in the implementation of hydroelectric projects. Later, it became a national organization and, today, in addition to fighting for the rights of those affected, it demands a Popular Energy Project to change all the unjust structures of this society from the roots.
As an organization, the movement is the result of a long work of collective construction, fighting against injustices, the destruction of nature for the maintenance and protection of the way of life of the affected local communities (ethnic and social aspects).
The movement is defined as a movement of national character, autonomous, mass, of struggle, with distinctions of different orders throughout its organization (race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political party and level of education), with participation and collective protagonism at all levels. Its objective is to organize those affected by dams in Brazil, before, during or after the construction of the projects. It is organized to defend the interests of the populations affected by the generation, distribution and sale of electric energy. The movement's action is guided by principles and values that find in the pedagogy of example and in solidarity among peoples the best way to convince.
The movement was created from the mobilization of farmers against the construction of hydroelectric plants in the region of Alto Uruguai, in the Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina.
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