The II State Conference on Policies for Promotion Racial Equality, in Manaus, Brazil, closed up yesterday (May 9, 2009). By many operations, the allies of SEPPIR (Special Secretariat for the Promotion of Policies on Racial Equality of the Presidency) got all vacancies for the National Conference. When would be initiated the discussion on the proposals, the police made a line of shock separating the Black movement of the Mestizo movement. We are sending two photos below taken by a cell (in one of them is Mrs. Oraida, executive secretary of SEPPIR). There was even a police officer with a military stripe on the arm where it was written 'kennel' (the car had a kennel outside the rectory of the University of the State of Amazonas, where the conference was taking place).
 
The "quilombolas" and other people in the Black movement, some of them known activists of the Party of the Workers (PT - Partido dos Trabalhadores) and the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB - Partido Comunista do Brasil), voted against proposals that included the word 'mestizo' and 'caboclo' (mestizo of Native + White). In the proposals that came from the city of Manaus, which included the word 'caboclo', they voted for the removal of the word. As the conference was very prolonged and the delegates should be weary of them, agreed that the vote on the proposals would be set in block, ie all or nothing. The block of the proposals of the Group of Social Control, which had majority of Mestizos, came with various proposals quoting the word 'mestizo', 'caboclo'; they voted against the entire block, so that the Final Report of the Conference of the PM's proposals will have no group Social Control. This was the only block that was not approved.
 
Only Black movements will send representatives to the National Conference.

 

For SEPPIR, there is not Mestizos.
 
They also approved a motion against the against the Mestizo movement and the law of the Mestizo Day (Mixed Race Day).

Some people do not bore the constraints and discrimination against Mestizos and withdrew from the event.