Maurício Waldman
Maurício Waldman (born 2 December 1955, São Paulo) is a Brazilian academic and environmental activist. Biography Waldman was born in São Paulo on 2 December 1955, to a Jewish family originally from Poland and Italy. As an activist, he collaborated with Chico Mendes and several organizations, including ''Comitê de Apoio aos Povos da Floresta'' (Forest People Committee), the African Studies Centre of São Paulo University (USP), and ''Centro Ecumênico de Documentação e Informação – CEDI'' (Ecumenical Centre of Documentation and Information, in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro). He also participated in activist movements against dams, anti-nuclear movement, anti-nuclear demonstrations, and especially against water pollution in São Paulo. From the 1980s to 1992, Waldman was an active member of the Workers' Party (Brazil), Brazilian Workers' Party (PT), working on political papers and as a party organizer. He founded the PT Jewish Committee (1988) and Ecological Commissio ...
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