Brief supporting statements by international intellectuals

• Noam Chomsky (political dissident, Professor of Linguistics the MIT)
• Jacques Derrida (philosopher, director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
• Saramago (Portuguese writer, awarded the Nobel Prize)
• Eric Hobsbawm (historian)
• Haroldo de Campos (Brazilian writer)
• Antonio Candido (Brazilian literary critic, writer of Brazilian literary history)
• Chico Buraque de Holanda (composer associated with Brazilian Popular Music, singer, playwright)
• Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian archictect, designer of Brasília)
• João Pedro St&eacaute;dile (agrarian economist, founding ideologue of the MST)
• Paulo Freire (Brazilian educator, author of The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1921-1997)
• Darcy Ribeiro (antropólogo brasileiro, 1923-1997)

Last modified: 14 May 2000