National assembly bringstogether over350 quilombolawomen

"After a black woman falls, the whole quilombo rises with her." The sentence, chanted by hundreds of women, marked the beginning of the 2nd National Meeting of Quilombola Women in the Federal District on Wednesday (Jun. 14). With the theme "Resist to Exist," the assembly is organized by CONAQ, an association that coordinates rural communities known as quilombos, originally founded by black people fleeing slavery. The f