The Centre of People's Movements or Popular Movements Central (, CMP) is a Brazilian left-wing social movement organization that articulate various social urban movements in their common and general struggles, such as housing, health,

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, among others. Founded after a national meeting of social movements in

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in 1993, the CPM is the fruit of a historic process of resistance by several combative popular social movements for social struggles during the 1980s, such as the defense of the

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and a Brazilian democratic project for the country able to guarantee wide

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. The need to create a toll able to coordinate and to join forces between various social movements in the struggle for

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and for the construction of

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was the main purpose of creating the CPM, and continues as a guiding principle of its performance. Thereafter, the CPM starts to get involved in some of the main social struggles in Brazil, such the Cry of the Excluded, national campaign and caravans in defense of rights, demonstrations against the implementation of

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and neoliberal agenda, and marches to promote employment and the economic and social development. In recent years, it also played an important role as one of the

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and social organization involved in protests against the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff and in the

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