O In.Formar: do movimento de massa para a consciência de classe (1979 até 1992)

Abstract

This paper proposes to discuss the organization/movement called In.Formar: Popular Culture and Education. The entity had the direct participation of workers – who lived in urban áreas lacking investment and which were configured as outskirts of the city of São Paulo, particularly in the east zone. Bringing together people from different social segments, its main protagonists were women, both workers and housewives who fought for citizenship rights. They worked to support, raise awareness and document popular movements that were organized with the same objective, aiming to change that reality. The study is configured in the recovery of the resistance strategies that In.Formar built with the protest and solidarity movements that emerged in the neighborhoods of São Paulo, between 1980 and 1992. Using photography as documentary support, In.Formar acted in several ways with the popular movements, integrating itself into their strategies of struggle, subsidizing them with pedagogical content, with an emphasis on popular education, participatory research and giving voice to ordinary people to express their social problems, as well as defining strategic goals and objectives to solve them, independently of the “benefits” of the State. The reconstruction of this movement will be carried out based on unpublished documents, iconographic material until now unvisited by historiography, existing both in the IIEP collection and interviews collected with activists and main leaders. From an analytical point of view, we will seek to recover, from the evidence contained in the sources, the characteristics of the multiple determinations that configure the social concreteness that gave rise to such a movement, revealing, as far as possible, its ontology as a social being. Always in dialogue with the historiographical production that deals with the dynamics of these popular movements at that time, given that, on In.Formar, there is still no study, despite the importance it had in the dynamics of those struggles in the city of São Paulo, in that contexto of the death throes of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship