{"id":80,"date":"2014-11-12T20:02:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/amotherscry\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2014-11-12T20:02:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T20:02:18","slug":"the-brazilian-left","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/amotherscry\/brazilians-against-the-dictatorship\/the-brazilian-left\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brazilian Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A\u00e7\u00e3o Popular<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A\u00e7\u00e3o Popular was a leftist political organization, founded in June of 1962.\u00a0It was the result of actions of militant students of the <em>Juventude Universit\u00e1ria Cat\u00f3lica<\/em>, of which Marcos was a member, and other Catholic organizations. To further explain A\u00e7\u00e3o Popular, here is a brief excerpt from <em>We Cannot Remain Silent<\/em>, by James N. Green:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>&#8220;A\u00e7\u00e3o Popular (Popular Action)&#8230; grew out of various Catholic youth and student organizations and moved toward Marxism, coalescing left-leaning Protestants along the way. In the early 1960s, A\u00e7\u00e3o Popular offered a progressive alternative to the pro-Soviet Communist Party, the Maoist Communist Party of Brazil, and various Trotskyist groupings. Many radical religious youth&#8230; declined left-wing political party affiliation, identifying themselves as unattached leftists. Others, like Marcos Arruda, who rejected the moderation of the Communist Party, eventually joined A\u00e7\u00e3o Popular.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00e7\u00e3o Popular A\u00e7\u00e3o Popular was a leftist political organization, founded in June of 1962.\u00a0It was the result of actions of militant students of the Juventude Universit\u00e1ria Cat\u00f3lica, of which Marcos was a member, and other Catholic organizations. To further explain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/amotherscry\/brazilians-against-the-dictatorship\/the-brazilian-left\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":76,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-80","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/amotherscry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/amotherscry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/amotherscry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/amotherscry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/amotherscry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/amotherscry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/amotherscry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/amotherscry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}