Dear Friends and Colleagues!
We would like to welcome you to the 33rd Dignity Conference in the Amazon of Brazil:
29th August – 2nd September 2019 in Marabá, state of Pará State
3rd September – 5th September 2019 in Belém, capital of the state of Pará
The title of the conference is Cultivating “Good Living Amazon”: Nurturing Solidarity with Mother Earth.
We thank Manoela Souza and Dan Baron, the directors of the Transformance Institute Culture & Education, and its AfroRaiz Youth Collective of the Community University of the Rivers in Marabá so much for hosting this conference, and we thank Gabriela Saab from São Paulo for co-convening it. Gaby is specialist in Human Rights Law and Environmental Law (USP) specialist and in the Right to Water as a Human Right.
You receive this email because the Amazon needs our support now! As you may be aware, the social and environmental situation is more serious than ever. Therefore, we would like to draw your attention to this conference. The local scholars and activists need to feel that they are not forgotten. They need you!!!
See, for example, ‘What now, Brazil? Facing absurdity and injustice, the left must react’, by Boaventura De Sousa Santos, Wall Street International Magazine, 29th July 2019,
https://wsimag.com/economy-and-politics/56371-what-now-brazil
This year, the conference will take the format of an Eco-Pedagogic Caravan, developed since 2011 by our hosts. We will visit two communities at risk where alternative Good Amazon Living projects are emerging, and we will visit key places of violation and humiliation. In this way, local, national and international participants will better understand how to cultivate a Good Living Amazon and how to support people healing themselves from the humiliation they have suffered.
We would like to invite you to participate in the conference in two ways:
1) It would be wonderful if you could come personally to the conference and exchange knowledge with other participants and local communities leaders. There are no registration fees, participation is free. Everyone is kindly invited to care for their travel and housing costs themselves.
2) If you cannot be with us in person, we would be very glad if you could join our temporary WhatsApp group that we will make for this conference. There you will be able to be part of the Amazon Conference and have a taste of our main activities, and perhaps you could send the
participants a message, a video or a photo of support! Please send a message to Gabriela Saab to +5511993015509).
Please find attached your invitation letters and the program in English and Portuguese. Thank you very much for kindly forwarding this to like-minded people!
Please enjoy also our last Dignity Letter at https://conta.cc/2N787fY.
The full program of the conference will evolve here:
www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/annualmeeting/33.php.
Please know that you are invited to spend the entire conference with us, so that true dignity-family-building can emerge. All our events are part of an ongoing effort to nurture a global dignity community.
We so much look forward to having you with us in another future-oriented paradigm-changing conference, where we will practice and manifest the dignity that we, as humankind, are in need of if we wish to offer our children a decent future on our beautiful but finite Blue Planet!
A LOVING WELCOME TO YOU!
from Evelin Lindner and Gaby Saab, soon on their way to the Amazon
also on behalf of Dan and Mano
and on behalf of Linda Hartling and Michael Britton
and on behalf of our entire global dignity movement!
