Conversation: The duty to see, they were always there.

Fifty years after April 25th, we have a duty to examine the status of our rights: those we have won, those we have lost, and those we still need to win.

With the revolution, do we truly become free, do we all have the same rights, and do we maintain the social and political gains achieved?

Regarding these and other issues, about personal and collective experiences, we will be discussing them on September 25th at 6:30 PM at the José Saramago Foundation with our guests:

Joana Simões Piedade
She holds a law degree and has worked as a journalist in Portugal, Angola, and the United States. She has participated in volunteer projects at both national and international levels, primarily with refugees. She works in education and cultural mediation, dedicating herself to educational projects that intersect citizenship, human rights, memory, colonialism, art, and public space. She has a master's degree in Migration, Interethnicity, and Transnationalism with a thesis on racism in Portuguese schools. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Post-Colonialism and Global Citizenship.

Luiza Tonon da Silva
Luiza Tonon is 31 years old and grew up in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. She graduated in History from the State University of Santa Catarina and completed her master's and doctoral degrees in the field, with theses on Portuguese colonialism in India, Rio de Janeiro, and Lisbon, in 2022. She has been active in women's movements, agrarian reform, education, and public health since a young age. After moving between different countries, she has been living in Lisbon since 2021, where she works as a historian and history teacher, and is currently also a medical student.

Maria Teresa Machado Barreiros
She is originally from Montemor-o-Novo, has a son, a granddaughter, and a grandson. The daughter of farm workers, she began working in the fields at age 11, picking olives and working with rice. At 14, she worked in a local factory, Azinhex. After getting married, she emigrated to France where she worked in an industrial laundry. It was in that country that she learned about the April 25th Revolution. After some years in France, she returned to Portugal, to Montemor-o-Novo, where she currently resides.

Regina Corado
Gynecologist and obstetrician. Sub-specialty in Maternal-Fetal Health. Master's degree in Bioethics from FML (Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon). Founding member of the Portuguese Society of Clinical Sexology. Defender of Human Rights and Women's Rights. Participated in CRARA – Revolutionary Commission in Support of Agrarian Reform, alongside the UPCs (Units of Cultural Production) of Alentejo.