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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff

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Speaker 1: I never told your production of I Heart Radio guests,

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Speaker 1: And welcome to another episode of Women Around the World.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I need a little theme song after

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Speaker 1: some kind of fancy jingle. And today we are highlighting

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Speaker 1: an amazing activist in Brazil, Baldicia no Mento. Yes that

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Speaker 1: Simanto was born in Urguay, Brazil and has become one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest advocates for women's rights, and more specifically

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Speaker 1: black women's rights in that country. Right so, her long

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Speaker 1: career has been a lifelong dedication in creating equality and

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Speaker 1: justice to the women in Brazil. She's been advocating forum

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Speaker 1: everything like rights of domestic workers to women's sexual and

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Speaker 1: reproductive rights. She is the executive coordinator of the O

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Speaker 1: d a r A or Tudo da Negra or Black

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Speaker 1: Women's Institute, based in Salvador, Brazil. She also coordinates the

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Speaker 1: Black Women's Network for the Northeast of Brazil and was

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Speaker 1: one of the organizers of the historic Black Women's March,

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Speaker 1: which took place in two thousand and fifteen. She was

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Speaker 1: definitely a key proponent to that and if you kind

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Speaker 1: of look back on what that was, it was this

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Speaker 1: huge statement and we're gonna talk a little bit more

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Speaker 1: about advocating and being powerful women in Brazil and I

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Speaker 1: loved it. Yes, In two thousand three, she was granted

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Speaker 1: the ASCA Fellowship or perhaps Ashoka. We tried to look

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Speaker 1: up the pronunciation and could not and because of a

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Speaker 1: Soca from Star Wars, that's how I want to say it.

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Speaker 1: But she was granted the scholarship for her work and

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Speaker 1: advocating for the rights of domestic workers in Brazil. According

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Speaker 1: to reports, Brazil has the largest population of domestic workers

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Speaker 1: around the world six point three million according to some figures,

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Speaker 1: and at least of them are women, and within that

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Speaker 1: percentage of them are made up of black women. And

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Speaker 1: though she has been advocating for their rights, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: until the domestic workers were not treated equally as other

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Speaker 1: professions by law. Things like overtime, limited work hours, and

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Speaker 1: pension were not given until that law passed. So no

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Speaker 1: Cemento developed her program, the e A f r O,

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Speaker 1: which is linked with the Center for Asian and African

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Speaker 1: Studies of the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador. She

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Speaker 1: created a program that gave educational and learning opportunities to

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Speaker 1: accelerate in these girls educations and also gave them the

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Speaker 1: tools to be able to get degrees or move on

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Speaker 1: to higher levels of education. She focused on giving young

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Speaker 1: girls the opportunity to move forward in education by focusing

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Speaker 1: on Black culture and their identity, which would increase the

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Speaker 1: use self esteem and increase their likelihood and succeeding in

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Speaker 1: school and continuing on to get their education. She also

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Speaker 1: collaborated with the Domestic Workers Union and Units HAVE to

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Speaker 1: create the Expanding Rights and Horizons program, which quote aimed

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Speaker 1: at guaranteeing their rights of young domestic workers, professionalizing the

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Speaker 1: working relationship, and opening up new educational and professional opportunities

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Speaker 1: for the students. And since then, she has been working

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Speaker 1: for the rights of women and reprojective health and rights

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Speaker 1: in Brazil. She continues to speak on the lack of

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Speaker 1: accessibility of reprojective health care and the continued push for

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Speaker 1: criminalizing abortion in her country right as in, she's opposing

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Speaker 1: the push. Yes, yes, I don't know how glader that was,

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Speaker 1: but she's opposing this push to criminalize abortion. She is

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Speaker 1: a fierce advocate for black women around the country. She stated,

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Speaker 1: quote for Black women, sexual and reprojective health is not

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Speaker 1: only about abortion, is about access to all the sexual

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Speaker 1: and reproductive health services and rights. And she spoke about

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Speaker 1: the continued issue of maternal mortality rates and how it

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Speaker 1: specifically is affecting Black women as it continues to hit

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Speaker 1: harder in the black communities, partially due to lack of

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Speaker 1: access for healthcare, especially within the communities that have higher

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Speaker 1: Black populations. And as we mentioned earlier, she was one

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Speaker 1: of the main people to organize the women's March, which

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Speaker 1: brought out over seventy people. She said, women came by

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Speaker 1: buses and by boats. They cooked, they dance, they marched together.

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Speaker 1: It was beautiful. The march was supported by Angela Davis, who,

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Speaker 1: by the way, received a personal letter from Vladis Heir

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Speaker 1: about the march before it happened, and Mrs Davis publicly

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Speaker 1: advocated for the march and what the women of Brazil

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Speaker 1: we're trying to do and bring attention to. Right after

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Speaker 1: the march, she stated it changed the Black women's movement,

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Speaker 1: specifically quote for black women, it was an affirmation of

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Speaker 1: their strength and she continues to work there today with

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Speaker 1: organizations about her important work. And she has been doing

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Speaker 1: this for like forty years, and I can't say enough

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Speaker 1: about how amazing she has done. Obviously, the work that

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Speaker 1: she did for the domestic workers, it shows as it

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Speaker 1: eventually took place to changing the law and given protection

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Speaker 1: So I think it's amazing what you can see women

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Speaker 1: like the Cemento and what she does and how she

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Speaker 1: continues to fight and use her wise to push for

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Speaker 1: others and giving strength to others to fight as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and this is a really huge, obviously issue when we're

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Speaker 1: talking about domestic care around the world and domestic work

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Speaker 1: and who's doing that and it's getting compensated for it

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Speaker 1: or not and getting those things like overtime or not

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Speaker 1: getting those things when it's such essential work. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're that's something we've been talking about revisiting in a

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Speaker 1: future episode, but in the meantime, listeners, if there's any

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