The Federal Attorney’s Office for Citizens’ Rights has asked the Federal Attorney’s Office of the Federal District to evaluate a proposal to initiate an administrative misconduct case against Palmares Foundation President Sergio Camargo and Coordinator General of the National Center for Information and Black Culture Directory, Marco Frenette, for the removal of publicly available books which were part of the organization’s library.
A total of 300 titles were banned from the collection, including works by Aldo Rebelo, Antonio Gramsci, Caio Prado Jr., Celso Furtado, Eric Hobsbawm, Karl Marx, Max Weber and Marilena Chaui, among many others.
According to the prosecutor’s office, this measure violates the constitutional principles of respect for political pluralism, the prohibition of censorship, freedom of expression and intellectual activity, as well as the prohibition of restricting rights on the basis of religious, philosophical or political convictions.
In the document, Federal Attorney for Citizens’ Rights Carlos Alberto Vilhena says this is not the first time that the president of the Palmares Cultural Foundation has displayed “questionable behavior in terms of administrative morality and impersonality.” He recalled that last year Sergio Camargo censored a list of black biographies on the organization’s website.
The request was sent from a representative office issued by the prosecutor’s office in Rio Grande do Sul. They argue that the censorship is “obvious” and that the audit was carried out for “political-philosophical reasons.”
“We seem to be facing a dangerous test ball for imposing and / or imposing restrictions on access and rejection of works of all kinds that will be distributed through the Federal Government, direct, indirect, autarkic and fundamental. This is the real dimension of the question posed and, consequently, the need for actions capable of preserving constitutional freedoms under threat, ”they wrote.
The authors of the post have contacted Fundação Palmares to comment on the submission and are awaiting a response. Banning works, Sergio Camargo said that they are guided by “sexualization of children” and “material for the study of Marxist revolutions.” The president of the organization classified the collection as “fully involved in the struggle of the left” and “thugs”. According to him, only 5% of the 9,000 titles “fulfill the institutional mission” of the agency.
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