Brazil's popular groups
Subtitle: a collection of materials issued by socio-political, religious, labor and minority grassroots organizations
Publisher: Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program; Available from Library of Congress Photoduplication Service
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: por
Format: [microform] :
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Human rights; Ecology; Blacks; Church and state; Indians of South America; Labor; Urbanization; Homosexuality; Education; Labor movement; Social conditions; Land reform; Political parties; Women
Other titles: Brazil's popular groups.
Description: Reproduces more than 600 ephemeral works, issued mostly in 2009, and includes newsletters, house organs, reports, brochures, educational manuals and handouts which document the ideas and activities of numerous Brazilian organizations and popular movements. Geographically, a sizable portion of the materials comes from Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and S̀ao Paulo, where the most active grassroots movements and groups are located. As in previous years, the content is arranged into fourteen broad subject categories: Agrarian Reform and Land Issues; Children and Youth; Education and Communication; Environment and Ecology; Ethnic Groups: Blacks; Ethnic Groups: Indians; Ethnic Groups: Others; Homosexual and Bisexual; Human and Civil Rights; Labor and Laboring Classes; Political Parties and Issues; Religious Organizations, Ecumenical Groups and Movements; Urban Activism; and, Women and Feminists.
Notes: Material was gathered and organized by the staff of the Library of Congress Office in Rio de Janeiro and microfilmed in cooperation with the African/Asian Acquisitions and Overseas Operations Division and the Preservation Reformatting Division.

Introductory matter and three indexes (title, subject code, and publisher) filmed on first reel.

Selected original illustrated material retained in Prints & Photographs Division.

Selected original illustrated material (posters: AG/003, CH/001, EC/002, EC/003, ED/003, GB/001, HR/001, HO/002, LA/001, POL/001, POL/002, WO/002, WO/003 and WO/006) retained in Prints & Photographs Division.

Continues: Brazil's popular groups, 1966-1986, filmed by the Library of Congress under Microfilm 88/5259 <MicRR>.

Master microform held by: DLC.

Texts in Portuguese; introductory matter and indexes in English.

Searchable online index to contents of microfilm collection available on the Library of Congress Web site.