Coletivo Passarinho is a horizontal organization made up of Brazilians residing in Buenos Aires from different progressive currents who, together, propose a struggle - political, poetic and affective.
The name of the Coletivo comes from an association between “Poeminho do Contra”, by Mário Quintana, with the anti-fascist maxim “they will not pass”. It is a name that reflects the context in which the collective was formed, in 2016, when a new rise of fascism, favored by an institutional coup in Brazil, was on the other hand able to conform a forceful and diverse “us”, willing to fight to reverse that right turn. This is the premise that continued to guide the collective, which gained new power after the murder of Marielle Franco in 2018, when we reinforced the feminist flags, the fight against racism and homophobia, and politics with affection.
But the name also speaks of our condition as migrants, our desire for freedom and the work we set out to do: taking seeds of revolution from one place to another, from one country to another. From the first moment we understood that our union would be not only political, but also affective. As the collective was organized, we also became a network of friendship and support that made living abroad easier and more pleasurable. This probably helped and still helps sustain political diversity within the collective and understand it as a quality.
We believe that we are a micro experience of something fundamental at this critical moment for Latin America: the union of progressive and leftist currents to stop the advance of ultraconservatism and neoliberalism and to fight for social justice and democracy.
Coletivo Passarinho has a proposal that comes to endorse several movements that are emerging in the last struggles of the Latin American and world left. An attempt to do something different from traditional organizations while claiming their importance. Our task is not to distance ourselves from our horizontality, to pave the way and respect differences and debate, always having as a basic thought that our work aims at a real and profound transformation of society and its current model.
Our collective wants not only to point out a popular, inclusive, participatory way out (which, invariably, takes us to the left field) but also to defend our condition of permanent combat against capitalism. What often seems old and worn out needs to regain strength to denounce that this system is not our choice, or preference, and is also responsible for inequalities, violence, hunger, injustice, hate crimes, which exist in this world regardless of countries. 
Therefore, we believe that the collective can also be the basis for articulation, along with other similar movements, for the creation of a new political project for Brazil and Latin America. A political project that understands and takes on the challenges of building a new political culture, understanding that this stage is fundamental for the transformation we want: the union of Latin American peoples, resuming and radicalizing democracy and constantly debating and demanding the debate on race , gender and classes.
Being formed by migrants, the collective has in its favor its diversity of ideas, places and trajectories. We propose to serve as a bridge to articulate dialogues of resistance between Brazil and Argentina.
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