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  Nas últimas décadas, o acesso ao ‘conhecimento aberto’ (ciência aberta) ganhou crescente apoio público e na comunidade científica. Contudo, isso não tem ocorrido sem reações e movimentos   que procuram bloquear o processo progressista de democratização do conhecimento. Os ataques vêm de todos os lados: do negacionismo científico (desejoso de impedir que a sociedade tenha acesso ao saber sistematizado); das tensões geopolíticas, com a consolidação de blocos de competidores que dificultam a cooperação científica internacional, e privilegiam a ‘doutrina da segurança’; do profundo impacto da inteligência artificial em vários aspectos do processo de pesquisa, etc.  Dessa forma, a ciência aberta tem se tornado um campo de disputa, do qual uma educação analiticamente interpelante não se pode descuidar, designadamente a Educação Popular, principalmente num tempo em que ela está reconfigurando e refundamentando as suas perspectivas. Tendo isso em atenção, a Universidade Popular ...

  Jacob Gorender: Brazilian Jewish and  Marxist thinker Jacob Gorender (1923-2013) was born in Salvador, Brazil, the oldest of five children of poor Jewish immigrants. His father, Nathan, came from Ukraine and his mother, Anna, from Bessarabia. At the age of 17, he was already working as an archivist at O Imparcial , a newspaper in Salvador, where he went on to serve as a reporter and then editor. This was the first of the many papers for which he wrote, a good number of which had ties to the PCB. In 1941 he began studying at the Salvador School of Law, and the following year his friend Mário Alves recruited him to the communist party. At 20, he enlisted to fight in World War II and saw seven months of combat in the Apennines and Monte Castelo, Italy. When he returned to Brazil, he threw himself into the life of a militant. He dropped out of college, moved to Rio de Janeiro, and became a “professional revolutionary,” as he used to say, devoted to party activities. He was in ...