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The Igarapé Institute, together with almost 40 partner organizations, has launched “Civic Space is Our Space – An Agenda for Democracy Protection”. The Agenda brings a set of proposals for citizens to actively defend civic space. Civic space belongs to all of us.

All of us.

Every day, we are witnessing the suffocation of Brazilian democracy.

But what can we do right now to protect our civic space? The agenda offers some practical examples of actions each of us can take.

civil society organizations united against anti democratic attacks

practical actions for people and institutions to engage in protecting civic space

“Civic Space is Our Space” was designed to inspire civil society in building a more inclusive democracy.

The publication is part of a larger, permanent project which contains the podcast series “You Can Change the World” (in Portuguese); the book “In defense of civic space”(soon to be published in English) and a quarterly bulletin that monitors threats to democracy and the reactions they generate. The publication lists strategies and tactics based on Igarapé Institute’s own sociological typology, described in the Strategic Article 49: “The Agora is under attack: assessing the closure of civic space in Brazil and around the world”. The document was updated with a new in “A Typology to Understand Strategies and Tactics for Attacking the Civic Space”.

Populist and authoritarian governments are censoring public debate and harassing academics, artists, activists, scientists and journalists. We need to protect our democracy and protect ourselves.

Watch the video, produced by Igarapé Institute, in which social entrepreneur Caetano Scannavino, volleyball player Carolina Solberg, indigenous activist Célia Xakriabá, anthropologist Debora Diniz, YouTube influencer Felipe Neto, our president Ilona Szabó, journalist Leonardo Sakamoto, epidemiologist Pedro Hallal, scientist Ricardo Galvão and actress Zezé Motta speak out about attacks they suffered because of their work and active voices.

Understand why attacking civic space is to attack the people:

Colective Action

Follow the hashtag

#OurCivicSpace

Check out messages from our ambassadors on social media to learn about and to multiply our messages and those of our ambassadors.

People from all political and ideological perspectives can engage.

The defense of civic space takes the action of many.

Meet our partners in this agenda:

HOW TO ACT

You too can protect civic space

Search

information to form your opinions

Seek out information from more than one outlet // Consult fact checking agencies

Disseminate

quality content

Share relevant information on social media // Share the work of outlets and/or resarchers who produce quality content

Participate

actively in the public debate

Foster healthy debates // debate and communicate without violence // Do not respond in kind when aggressively confronted on social networks

Choose

representatives responsibly

Study all the candidates’ proposals
and evaluate their validity // Accompany congressional votes // Analyze the history of political
candidates.

Support

committed leaders

Share the profiles of committed
leaders on social networks // Donate to their campaigns // Remain cautious of magic solutions to complex problems

Oversee

and demand public authorities

Accompany the work of
organizations which defend evidence-based public
policy // Remember campaign proposals and demand their fulfillment

Engage in social media using the hashtag

#OurCivicSpace

Tag Igarapé Institute on social media so we can amplify our messages and those of our ambassadors!

Twitter and Instagram: @igarape_org.

Facebook and Linkedin: @InstitutoIgarape.

Keep on learning more about Civic Space

The Igarapé Institute, together with almost 40 partner organizations, has launched “Civic Space is Our Space – An Agenda for Democracy Protection”. The Agenda brings a set of proposals for citizens to actively defend civic space. Civic space belongs to all of us.

All of us.

Every day, we are witnessing the suffocation of Brazilian democracy.

But what can we do right now to protect our civic space? The agenda offers some practical examples of actions each of us can take.

civil society organizations united against anti democratic attacks

practical actions for people and institutions to engage in protecting civic space

“Civic Space is Our Space” was designed to inspire civil society in building a more inclusive democracy.

Populist and authoritarian governments are censoring public debate and harassing academics, artists, activists, scientists and journalists. We need to protect our democracy and protect ourselves.

Understand why attacking civic space is to attack the people:

Colective Action

Follow the hashtag

#OurCivicSpace

Check out messages from our ambassadors on social media to learn about and to multiply our messages and those of our ambassadors.

People from all political and ideological perspectives can engage.

The defense of civic space takes the action of many.

Meet our partners in this agenda:

HOW TO ACT

You too can protect civic space

Search

information to form your opinions

Seek out information from more than one outlet // Consult fact checking agencies

Disseminate

quality content

Share relevant information on social media // Share the work of outlets and/or resarchers who produce quality content

Participate

actively in the public debate

Foster healthy debates // debate and communicate without violence // Do not respond in kind when aggressively confronted on social networks

Choose

representatives responsibly

Study all the candidates’ proposalsand evaluate their validity // Accompany congressional votes // Analyze the history of politicalcandidates.

Support

committed leaders

Share the profiles of committedleaders on social networks // Donate to their campaigns // Remain cautious of magic solutions to complex problems

Oversee

and demand public authorities

Accompany the work oforganizations which defend evidence-based publicpolicy // Remember campaign proposals and demand their fulfillment

Engage in social media using the hashtag

#OurCivicSpace

Tag Igarapé Institute on social media so we can amplify our messages and those of our ambassadors!

Keep on learning more about Civic Space

Study all the candidates’ proposals
and evaluate their validity // Accompany congressional votes // Analyze the history of political
candidates.

Share the profiles of committed
leaders on social networks // Donate to their campaigns // Remain cautious of magic solutions to complex problems

Accompany the work of
organizations which defend evidence-based public
policy // Remember campaign proposals and demand their fulfillment