Bloco

Now the Bloco de Lama Mud Block is an annual ritual.

Only In…Paraty 2012

Bloco de Lama takes place on the Saturday of Carnival at 5 p.m. blocodalama.com.br

Only In…Paraty 2012

All nine of the troubled fields were on church, LC-administered, or former Bloco 4 land.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

As deslocados filled Magude town, district officials opened up the rest of Bloco 4, offering them fields on the coveted concessionsmall plots to family farmers, much larger tracts to agricultores.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Complicating the situation further was Escudeiro's property, which after independence had been turned into Bloco 4 of the Empresa Agrícola de Magude (EAM).

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

When in the early 1980s this state farm began to collapse, EAM management gave out plots of Bloco 4 land to employees.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Not least among them were the certain alienation of Bloco 4 to large-scale commercial farmers and likely confrontations between local agricultores and small-scale farmers over nyaka land.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Samba band Bloco do Sul host samba percussion workshops every Monday in Dorking - call on

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It was very empowering because originally women were not allowed to drum in the Bloco and now this one doesn´t have any men!

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We started the night at a Bloco of all women drummers!

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