The “Occupy Cocó”: remarks for an approach among the right to resistance, the city and the ecologically balanced environment in the struggle in defense of the park

Abstract

This work intends to make a presentation of the experience of the “Occupy Coco” camp set up
inside the Coco Park in Fortaleza that during almost three months, encouraged resistance to the construction of a complex of viaducts that will come - as indeed entered - an area on the edge of a public park, the largest
green area of the city. These intend notes analyze this new form of social movement - influenced by the “Occupies” of 2010/2011 and the June days of 2013 - from the realization that the Right to Resistance ends up being a founding and fundamental support for the struggle in defense of the Right to the City, its commons and, among these, the (Right to) Ecologically Balanced Environment. Despite the camp have been
dismantled for (and by) the strength of the judgment after 84 days of occupation, which could symbolize a defeat for the movement, the sentence of a civil action recognized in the first instance, the illegality of that mega project in that does not cease to mean - contradictory (because, despite the ruling, the viaducts were completed) - a victory, albeit partial. With these appointments, the aim is to understand the new social
dynamics in a city like fortress that has been transmuting an impressive speed, accelerated by the interests of capital. Last but not least, is to emphasize that it is also the result of the Occupy Coco - substitute for an older movement, but still present, SOS Coco - the current government’s decision definitively Park regulations, ie, creation under the Act establishing the National Nature Conservation Areas System (SNUC), the Coco Park, after more than thirty years of struggle.