{"id":143,"date":"2012-10-17T14:29:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T14:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/wecannotremainsilent\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2022-03-18T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T18:50:08","slug":"chapter-9-denouncing-the-dictator-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/chapters\/chapter-9-denouncing-the-dictator-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 9: Denouncing the Dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"
As resistance to the military dictatorship grew in Brazil, efforts in the United States were also expanding.<\/address>\n
Brazil: A Report on Torture<\/strong><\/address>\n
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Photo of journalist and filmmaker Saul Landau. Image courtesy of the Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Filmmakers Saul Landau and Haskell Wexler<\/a><\/strong> were in Chile making a film about the recent election of socialist Salvador Allende, when they heard that 70 Brazilian hostages had been released to Chile in exchange for the Swiss ambassador. Their interviews with these young Brazilians, most of whom had been arrested for participating in leftist organizations and tortured extensively, were then made into a film released in the United States: Brazil: A Report on Torture<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/address>\n

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Newsletters and Action Groups<\/strong><\/address>\n
The American Friends of Brazil\u00a0group began to publish the Brazilian Information Bulletin<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in 1971. The publication was distributed across the country with the goal of increasing awareness of human rights violations and political developments in Brazil.\u00a0<\/address>\n
Read an interview with Paul Silberstein by James Green.<\/address>\n
The Living Theater Imprisoned<\/strong><\/address>\n
On July 1, 1970, members of the New York avant-garde theater troupe the Living Theater were arrested by DOPS under the pretense of marijuana possession in Ouro Preto in Minas Gerais. The group was planning a street performance of the Legacy of Cain <\/i>in the form of 150 separate plays that would be performed in various areas of the small mining town over a three-week period. Three members of the troupe who had evaded arrest returned to the United States and mounted an international campaign for the release of Julian Beck, Judith Malina<\/a><\/strong>, and other members of the Living Theater. Covered by the American and European press, the Living Theater’s arrest, two-month detention, and trial called attention to the situation of political prisoners incarcerated in Brazil. Members of the U.S. artistic elite such as Allen Ginsberg, Mick Jagger, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, and Jane Fonda mounted a campaign for their release, formed the American Association for the Defense of the Living Theater, and sent a petition<\/a><\/strong> to President M\u00e9dici.<\/address>\n