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Renamed?
Hello, I saw you editing Organization Workshop and wondered: Hadn't you renamed your account to Pronacampo9? Did you deliberately recreate the old one? If not, you may want to log out and log into your renamed account instead. Huon (talk) 08:51, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

- Hi, Huon: pleasant surprise seeing you on my talkpage again – and watchful as ever, I notice! Yes, I did change my username, for obvious reasons, and was a bit puzzled why the old one kept ‘working’ – I realize I should have experimented a bit in the way you suggest, but I gather it’s the primordial fear of doing something ‘wrong’ and then never to be able to get in again? I am writing a new AfC about Clodomir – I am using my own photo I took of him in Costa Rica in 2008 - so I don’t need an OTRS for this I presume? I did log out and was able to log in with the new username, but, guess what! trying to check on that new Clodomir AfC I notice that I cannot access it with my Pronacampo9 username. If I revert to the old username, however, I can! As I do want to use the Pronacampo9 name, this is obviously a problem. I presume that, in order to be able to continue working on the new article with the new username, I have to cut and paste it from the ‘old’ userpage and paste it in a new AfC under the new Pronacampo username? Anyhow, I better confirm with you what would be the best procedure – what I do notice that from Pronacampo9 the new AfC is inaccessible, or are there other ways to get around this problem? I don’t know whether you are able to ‘see’ the new AfC – so I am including part 1 of the three part new AfC – you will see that Clodomir was (and still is!) quite a ‘character’.(Rafaelcarmen (talk) 11:54, 18 July 2013 (UTC))


 * The draft certainly is accessible from both accounts; there's no need to copy and paste it (even if we had to change its title, there are better ways, but we don't need to bother with that at all). I expect it's just a matter of finding it. It's at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Clodomir Santos de Morais, and this link should work from both accounts. I expect you used to access it via your contributions? The renamed account's contributions indeed don't include those you made with this account after recreating it, but every user can see every other account's contributions as well as his own - there's a "User contributions" link in the "Toolbox" section of the left sidebar whenever you look at a user page or user talk page that will show you that user's contributions. I'll leave a copy of the relevant links at the renamed account's talk page for your convenience. Huon (talk) 13:49, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

= Clodomir Santos de Morais=

Clodomir Santos de Morais, PhD (30 September 1928), is a Brazilian Sociologist, journalist, trade unionist, political activist, musician, story teller, factory worker,lawyer and author. He is best known as the originator of the Organization Workshop and the associated Large Group Capacitation Method(LGCM).

Pre-exile: Bahía, São Paulo, Pernambuco
de Morais (occasionally spelled Moraes) was born in Santa Maria da Vitoria, Bahía State, Brazil. After elementary school and a short apprenticeship as tailor there, he moved, barely 15, to São Paulo where, to pay for his studies, he played saxofone in a jazz band and clarinet in a symphonic orchestra, before becoming a conveyor belt operator at the São Paulo Ford plant making it to line supervisor after two years. While finishing his Secondary he also worked as part-time journalist. It was while working at Ford that he became involved in Trade Unionism and political activism along with the painter Luis Enjorras Ventura, the educator Dario Lorenzo, the arts critic Radha Abramo as well as the sociologist Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC), who later was to become president of the Republic. In 1950, aged 22, he moved to the Bahía State capital Salvador where he founded the weekly “Critica”, the only opposition paper to the then governor Régis Pacheco. In 1951 he moved to Recife where, while studying for Lawyer (advogado) at the Federal University of Pernambuco, he worked as Associated Press reporter on several local dailies (such as e.g. the Jornal do Comercio) and for Radio Clube and Radio Olinda. Together with Francisco Julião, who became their president, he was co-founder of the Nordeste Peasant League  movement in Pernambuco. .The insights which gave rise to what was eventually to become the Organization Workshop were the unanticipated outcome of a clandestine meeting held by a large group of Peasant League middle managers in an ordinary townhouse, in Recife in 1954, to study Brazilian Agrarian Law, and which Clodomir de Morais attended. An evaluation conducted six months after that meeting found that participants had made remarkable contributions to their home communities, in some cases in marked contrast to previous behavior. Rather than improved knowledge of Agrarian Law (most of which had been forgotten), they had developed strong organizational skills. de Morais attributed this unexpected outcome to the fact that "the cramped conditions of the house, combined with the need for secrecy so as not to arouse the suspicion of the police, [...] had imposed on the group a strict organizational discipline in terms of division and synchronization of all the tasks needed for such an event". This insight led Moraes to think about practical exercises where a shared resource base, activity, and the need for analytical thought would stimulate organizational consciousness. From the early 60s onwards de Morais staged workshops of an experimental character among the Pernambuco Peasant Leagues. In 1955 de Morais had been elected delegate to the Pernambuco Federal Assembly where he was instrumental in getting approval for the creation of the Pernambucan Development Bank - BANDEPE about which he is known to have quipped "I am hopeless with money, yet am responsible for one of the big banks in the country". The military coup d'état of 1 April 1964 overthrew the João Goulart government. Countless left-wing politicians and activists were arrested. Freire recounts that de Morais had already been imprisoned and tortured - he, and his then wife - well before the coup (1962), “by the Police of Carlos Lacerda, in Rio de Janeiro”, “because of his political activities” which meant that, including 1964 post-Coup, he spent “a total of two years in prison”. Paulo Freire himself was arrested at the time of the coup and spent some time with his friend de Morais in the same tiny cell in the Olinda prison. Among the many incriminating counts the Military held against de Morais - he ranked a honorary 12th on the Junta's list of the 100 troublemakers who had their civil rights suspended for 10 years -, were his, and the Peasant League's Cuban sympathies, eg the hospitality he gave in his house, in 1961, to the visiting Cuban Central Committee member. During his captivity Clodomir, always a raconteur, wrote a series of stories from "deep Brazil". At a much later stage in life, de Morais would reminisce about those days of liberating struggle. de Morais was forced into exile for 15 years and was granted asylum at the Chilean Embassy in Rio de Janeiro.

1964 - 1988: Years of Exile and spread of the Organization Workshop to Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe
While In Chile, Clodomir specialized in Cultural Anthropology at Santiago University and in Agrarian Reform at the ICIRA Institute (Agrarian Reform Capacitation and Research Institute), after which he was appointed United Nations Agrarian Reform consultant for Latin America. In 1968, his position as Agrarian Reform consultant for Honduras, allowed him to set up a ‘Centre’ OW in the Guanchias Cooperative The construction of the Centre itself became an integral part of that OW.

In 1969 he directs a large ‘Centre’OW in Panamá in the context of President Torrijos then ‘Mil Jovenes’ (Thousand Youths) Operation which sent out 1,000 young Panamanians to reproduce the OW in support of the government’s agrarian reform. 280 new enterprises resulted, grouped under the Panamanian CONAC (National Confederation of Campesino Land Settlements) which subsequently organized further OW learning events nationally. In 1970-73 de Morais became ILO advisor for Costa Rica where a new Land Settlement Policy had just come in operation, and where, among others, his conferences, at the University of Costa Rica and the UNA (Universidad Nacional) aroused a keen interest. At the behest of the ITCO (Institute for Lands and Colonization) president T.Quirós, a Centre OW, funded by the ILO, was arranged in Bataán, which produced a number of new cadres and OW directors, responsible, in 1973 alone, for 80 pre-cooperative groups and 15 new enterprises. Barrantes’ 1998 book ‘Coopesilencio: 25 years on’ traces the story of one of the many cooperative enterprises which survive in Costa Rica, dating back to those groundbreaking years (see: Organization Workshop 'Long term survival' and the more recent Germinadora regional project).

From 1973 to 76 de Morais was FAO consultant for Honduras and in charge of the PROCCARA Program (Campesino Capacitation Program for Agrarian Reform), which became the blueprint for the ‘Honduran Model’, ie, the application of the OW on a countrywide basis. 27,000 Hondurans and other nationals, mainly campesinos, but also students and public sector workers, participated in more than 200 OWs which led to the creation of 1,053 new enterprises, some of the bigger ones, such as the palm oil growing and processing plants Hondupalma,, Salama and Coapalma. still operating today.

1988 - : back in Brazil
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