[-empyre-] forwarding from David Byrne

[Lucio Agra]

I would say it is precisely the same as it happens around the world. In
Brazil we've been suffering, since midiatic/political coup last year,a
substantial decrease mainly in the areas of Education and Culture. It is
less than a trace in a budget pizza chart (as we call it here). At least in
the field of culture.
Recently government discontinued the Science without Fronteers Program,
wich was implemented over the Lula/Dilma government. The argument was that
the resources used to fund poor undergraduate students to travel abroad
would be better in food for children in basic education. We know it is a
fallacy. This money will be transferred to other budget itens.
 It has been a common procedure to take up resources from Education and
Culture and put it on Security, for instance. The government of the State
of Sao Paulo as well as, more recently, the new elect mayor of the city
which receive the same name - the city of Sao Paulo - has beens
sistematically destroying entire programs that funded teaching of arts to
poor people or supported new experiments in Arts, Dance and Theatre. It is
only a matter to change the name of the country. The policies are exactly
the same.

2017-04-04 22:06 GMT-03:00 simon <swht at clear.net.nz>:

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> The Trump administration and their Republican allies hope to eliminate
> funding for a number of federal arts organizations. This is a political
> move—it really doesn’t amount to much money—it’s a tiny part of the federal
> budget. The amount of federal funding is $741 million, which sounds like a
> lot, but is less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the United States’ annual
> federal spending, an amount supporters say is too small to make a
> difference in the budget if it was cut. On a budget pie chart it doesn’t
> even show up, it’s too small.
>
> Q: What does that “investment” get us as a nation?—A: It gets multiplied
> more than 100 times= $135.2 BILLION.
>
> In 2013, the production of arts and cultural goods added more than $704
> billion to the U.S. economy. This amounts to 4.23% of GDP. The arts and
> cultural sector contribute more to the national economy than do the
> construction, agriculture, mining, utilities, and travel and tourism
> sectors.
>
> - from http://davidbyrne.com/journal/what-good-are-the-arts
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*Lucio Agra*
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Centro de Cultura Linguagens e Tecnologias Aplicadas
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