Creative Empowerment Cooperative

Freedom Land
Quilombos are Brazil’s version of Maroon communities, consisting predominantly of the descendants of escaped African slaves, who define themselves in terms of their relationship to the … read more »

As in: This is “it.”
What I know about Alto Paraíso de Goiás after a week:
About 8,000 inhabitants municipality wide.  Settled by slave-holding colonizers in the 1750s, officially declared a … read more »

(a little background reading)
The following are some great excerpts that help provide the context for our interest in this region. The author, Thomas Isaac, has had a … read more »

Week 2: Reflections, Projections and the Present Moment
Seema has just taken off (with Osho’s The Book of Woman in hand) to join her family in the central Kerala … read more »

Preface: Another thing Seema and I realized this week is that even as people of color, we’ve been so institutionalized by “formal” education that we automatically start our … read more »

CEC fieldwork began in August 2006 in Bahia, Brazil. Egypt travelled all over the state of Bahia evaluating site possibilities. Besides her first choice of the … read more »