Brazil Unfiltered

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Jana Silverman about the current state of the Brazilian labor movement. Jana holds a Ph. D. in Labor Economics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) and is a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Center for Global Workers’ Rights at Penn State University. She is a Research Fellow at the Washington Brazil Office. In addition...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Mauricio Moura, the founder and chief executive officer of IDEIA Big Data and a visiting scholar at George Washington University.

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Ana Paula Vargas, the Brazil Program Director at Amazon Watch. Ana Paula is a member of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil and Amazon Watch is a partner organization with the Washington Brazil Office.

In this special episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Gladys Mitchell-Walthour about the life and legacy of Marielle Franco and the state of transnational Black activism today. Mitchell-Walthour is Associate Professor of Public Policy & Political Economy in the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She specializes in Afro-...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Gregório Duvivier, Gregório is an actor, comedian, and writer. He is the host of the weekly HBO show, Greg News, and one of the creators of the youtube channel Porta dos Fundos. Gregório is also an ambassador for the Washington Brazil Office. Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to u...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with David Nemer, Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, a Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center and Princeton University's Brazil Lab, and a research fellow at the Washington Brazil Office. David's current research explores the problem of online misinformation focused on countries in the Global So...

In this special message, Professor James N. Green expresses his gratitude to all of the people who have watched or listened to Brazil Unfiltered this year. With the Brazilian presidential election just around in the corner in 2022, and the seemingly inevitable showdown between Bolsonaro and Lula, we can only imagine what unforeseen circumstances will arise. But, whatever happens, you can rest assu...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Thiago Amparo. Thiago is a lawyer, scholar, human rights activist, and professor at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. He has a weekly column in the Folha de São Paulo and hosts the podcast: “Quem ler tanto noticia,” which, since its launch earlier this year, is one of Brazil’s most listened to news podcasts. Thiago is currently living...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green speaks with Patrícia Campos Mello. Patricia is a renowned journalist currently working at the Folha de São Paulo. She has had a long and rich career that has taken her all over the world. In 2018, Patrícia published a series of articles detailing a possible illegal social media strategy that Bolsonaro was using to influence the presidential elec...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Sérgio Ferreira, Lula's longtime interpreter. In the interview, Sérgio reflects on the decades he spent by Lula's side, as well as his own personal struggle to expose many of the atrocities committed by the Brazilian Military dictatorship, which include the disappearance of his cousin. Since the 1970s, Sérgio has played an import...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green spoke with Stanley Gacek, the Senior Advisor for Global Strategies at the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW). Stanley is a leading member of the U.S. Network fo Democracy in Brazil and has been on the forefront of many of the international labor issues involving the United States and Brazil for several decades. Over hi...

In this special episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green tells the story of how Brazil changed his life, from his arrival in the country in 1976, to his time as a student activist and founder of one of the first politicized LGBT movements in South America, and, later ,as a professor of history, a friend of former president Dilma Rousseff, and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for...

In Brazil, November 20th is widely celebrated as a day of Black Consciousness. It is also the anniversary of the assassination of Zumbi dos Palmares. Today, both the figure of Zumbi and the Quilombo or Maroon community of Palmares are important symbols associated with Brazil's African diaspora, and black activism. It is also interesting to note that over the years Zumbi and Palmares have been used...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green sits down with Sean T. Mitchell, Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, to discuss the history and politics of the Alcântara Space Center. The final portion of this episode includes a Brazilian News Update, which begins at 53:17 If you are able to, please support us at https://www.patreon.com/brazilunfiltered and help us to continue to...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green sits down with Oliver Stuenkel, Professor of International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in São Paulo, to discuss Brazil’s place in the world. The final portion of this episode includes a Brazilian News Update, which begins at 57:17 If you are able to, please support us at https://www.patreon.com/brazilunfiltered and help us to cont...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green focuses on the recent Congressional Investigation into Bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic and their conclusion that the President is guilty of a number of crimes, including crimes against humanity. Green pays particular attention to the debate over whether or not Bolsonaro's actions can and should be classified as genocide. The final portion o...

Jair Bolsonaro is one of the worst leaders on earth today. Since his forced departure from the military in the late 1980s, to his entry into electoral politics, Bolsonaro has consistently and clearly articulated extreme rightwing positions that often threaten democracy itself. In this episode James Green does a deep dive into the political trajectory of Jair Bolsonaro as he works to answer the que...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green explores the political trajectory of former Brazilian president and current leading presidential candidate for the 2022 election, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The final portion of this episode includes a Brazilian News Update, which begins at 29:58 If you are able to, please support us at https://www.patreon.com/brazilunfiltered and help us to con...

In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James N. Green describes the political situation in Brazil one year prior to the presidential election. Several of the main points covered are: a presentation of the current political landscape, the growing protest movement, and a discussion of the leading presidential candidates, including President Jair Bolsonaro, former-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,...

On this episode of Brazil Unfiltered James continues his conversation with Ivo Herzog, the son of slain journalist and symbol of Brazilian democracy, Vladimir Herzog. Vladimir Herzog was murdered by the Brazilian military in 1975, and the protests surrounding his death marked a turning point in the fall of Brazil's military dictatorship. Ivo now leads the Vladimir Herzog Institute, an NGO that pro...

In Brazil, the name Vladamir Herzog is iconic. Herzog was a journalist who, in 1975, was tortured and killed by members of the military. Officials staged his death to make it look like a suicide. When this cover-up was exposed, ordinary citizens took to the streets; many would argue that the protests surrounding his death marked the beginning of the end of Brazil’s military dictatorship. On this e...

On this episode, Jim and Brazil Unfiltered’s new co-host Marina Adams have a fascinating conversation with Geri Augusto, Associate Professor of International & Public Affairs and Africana Studies at Brown. They talk about what drew Geri to studying and working in Brazil, some of her most fruitful partnership with scholars and activists in the country, and how we should reimagine our study of Brazi...

On this episode James talks with Erica Lorraine Williams, Assistant Professor at Spelman College and author of 'Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements.' They discuss Erica’s book, which explores how Brazil’s sex tourism industry affects Afro-Brazilian women’s lives in the Brazilian state of Bahia. They also look more broadly at how Afro-Brazilian women have been impacted by the election of...

December 2019 marks the one-year anniversary of the founding of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, a grassroots organization dedicated to fighting for Brazil’s democracy from outside its borders. On this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, Jim (who co-founded the organization) talks with the Network's National Organizer, Marina Adams. They discuss the growth and evolution of the network over the la...

From the corruption scandal known as ‘Operation Car Wash’ to Bolsonaro’s clashes with the Supreme Court, today Brazil’s judiciary is at the center of the nation’s political and social struggles. On this episode, James Green talks with someone uniquely qualified on the subject: former Attorney General Luís Inácio Adams. In addition to the process and politics of ‘Operation Car Wash’ and Dilma Rouss...