Clodomir Santos de Morais

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Clodomir Santos de Morais
Organization Workshop (OW)/Large Group Capacitation Method (LGCM)
AwardsProfessor Doctor Honoris Causa UNIR[1]
Human Rights Prize (2008 – Brazil)[2]

Clodomir Santos de Morais (30 September 1928 – 25 March 2016) was a Brazilian

Large Group Capacitation Method (LGCM).[3][4]

In the 1940s and 1950s de Morais worked as a

ILO Regional Advisor on Agrarian Reform for Central America, he subsequently worked as Agrarian Reform consultant in Latin America, Portugal and Africa
.

After the end of military rule de Morais returned to Brazil in 1988, answering a call from the

University of Brasilia to help in the 'hidden civil war' of unemployment.[5][6]

He recently returned to his hometown in Bahía State.

Pre-exile: Bahía, São Paulo, Pernambuco

De Morais (occasionally spelled Moraes)

saxofone in a jazz band and clarinet in a symphonic orchestra,[9] before becoming a conveyor belt operator at the São Paulo Ford plant making it to line supervisor after two years. While finishing his Secondary he also worked as part-time journalist. It was while working at Ford that he became involved in trade unionism and political activism along with the painter Luis Enjorras Ventura, the educator Dario Lorenzo, the art critic Radha Abramo as well as the sociologist Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC), who later was to become president of the Republic.[10]

In 1950, aged 22, he moved to the Bahía State capital

Organization Workshop were the unanticipated outcome of a clandestine meeting held by a large group of Peasant League middle managers in an ordinary townhouse, in Recife in 1954, to study Brazilian Agrarian Law, and which Clodomir de Morais attended. An evaluation conducted six months after that meeting found that participants had made remarkable contributions to their home communities, in some cases in marked contrast to previous behavior. Rather than improved knowledge of agrarian law (most of which had been forgotten), they had developed strong organizational skills. de Morais attributed this unexpected outcome to the fact that "the cramped conditions of the house, combined with the need for secrecy so as not to arouse the suspicion of the police, ... had imposed on the group a strict organizational discipline in terms of division and synchronization of all the tasks needed for such an event".[9] This insight led Moraes to think about practical exercises where a shared resource base, activity, and the need for analytical thought would stimulate organizational consciousness.[17] From the early 1960s onwards de Morais staged workshops of an experimental character[18] among the Pernambuco Peasant Leagues.[19][20]

In 1955 de Morais was elected delegate to the Pernambuco Federal Assembly where he was instrumental in getting approval for the creation of the

raconteur,[28][29] wrote a series of stories from "deep Brazil".[30][31][32][33] At a much later stage in life, de Morais would reminisce about those days of liberating struggle.[34]
de Morais was forced into exile for 15 years and was granted asylum at the Chilean Embassy in Rio de Janeiro.

1964–1988: Years of Exile and spread of the Organization Workshop

While in Chile, Clodomir specialized in

ILO
Regional Advisor on Agrarian Reform for Central America. In 1968, as consultant for the National Agrarian Institute (INA)
[36] of Honduras, he set up a "Centre" OW at the Guanchias Cooperative[37][38] in the course of which the construction of the Centre itself became an integral part of that OW.[37] The "Centre" OW – (and, later on, the "Course" and "Enterprise" OW) – was a variation on the main "Field" OW theme. The latter is always open to local large group participation, "regardless of age, sex, color, religion or whatever",[39] and lasts one month. The former, which may last three months or more, has participants, OW fashion, entirely in charge of internal organization and management, and is structured around the formation of cadres and (future) OW Directors and Assistants (known as APIs). The inspiration for these "boarding" type OWs came from a CEPAL-led course for international economic development experts which Clodomir attended during his studies in Santiago (Chile) in 1965.[40][41][42] It was to Guanchias that development and agrarian reform agencies would send their recruits for initiation into the OW.[43][44]

In 1969 he directed a large "Centre" OW in

Panamá in the context of Omar Torrijos' Mil Jovenes (Thousand Youths) Operation which sent out 1,000 young Panamanians to reproduce the OW in support of the government's agrarian reform.[45] 280 new enterprises resulted, grouped under the Panamanian CONAC (National Confederation of Campesino Land Settlements) which subsequently organized other OW learning events nationally.[46]
In 1970 (until 1973) de Morais, on account of the
ILO, moved to Costa Rica where a new Land Settlement Policy had just come in operation. His conferences at the University of Costa Rica and the Universidad Nacional aroused a keen interest. At the behest of T. Quirós, president of the Institute for Lands and Colonization (ITCO), an ILO-funded Centre OW was arranged in Bataán.[47][48] The new cadres and OW directors formed there were responsible, in 1973 alone, for 80 new pre-cooperative groups and 15 new enterprises.[49] Barrantes' 1998 book Coopesilencio: 25 years on[50] traces the story of one of the many long-term surviving cooperative enterprises hailing back to those groundbreaking years.[51][52]

After having spent some time as visiting scholar at the

FAO consultant in charge of the PROCCARA[54] Program (Campesino Capacitation Program for Agrarian Reform), which was to become the blueprint for the "Honduran Model", the application of the OW on a countrywide basis.[55][56] in which 27,000 Hondurans and other nationals, mainly campesinos but also students and public sector workers, participated in more than 200 OWs.[57][58][59][60] This led to the creation of 1,053 new enterprises, some of the bigger ones, such as the palm oil growing and processing plants Hondupalma,[52][61] Salama[62] and Coapalma[63]
still operating today.

When his Honduras contract came to an end in 1976, de Morais, at the invitation of the Centre for Ecology and Sustainable Development (CECODES) took charge of the FAO/UNDP-funded (Mex74/006) Integrated Rural Development Program for Humid Tropics (PRODERITH) project in

Huatusco, Veracruz coffee growers in the 90s,[67][68] the Tabasco OWs in the noughties[69] up to the recent Mexico City OW-based large scale "¡Que Buena Puntada!" sewing cooperatives led by Verónica Viloria[70][71] in 2007–2012 Mexico City.[72]

In Portugal, the

ILO/SIDA/UNDP-funded Cooperative Development POR/ILO/UNDP/007 Project. In 1979 de Morais ran a "Course" OW lasting 5 months for a group 50 Portuguese TDE (Economic Development Expert) candidates with higher levels of education, with an additional ten candidates from Africa, Guatemala and Brazil (de Morais was still banned in his home country). These TDEs were to become the backbone of the first European national SIPGEI (Social Participation System for the Identification of Job and Income Generation Projects). Eventually a "6,000-strong army of experts at grassroots, middle and higher-ranking levels, who had graduated from the massive capacitation programs realized by INSCOOP", would be formed.[75] Correia notes that it was by means of this capacitation program that the ground was prepared for Portugal's imminent entry into the European Community.[74]

Shortly after the Portugal assignment came Clodomir's transfer to Nicaragua at the behest of the new Sandinista government, which had requested him to set up a 'SIPGER' (Job Creation System), identical to the national PROCCARA project he previously had run in Honduras, in this case on account of the Nicaraguan ILO/INRA-sponsored COPERA (Capacitation Project for the Organization of Producers and Job Creation) Program.[76][77] de Morais ran some initial pilot OWs in Nicaragua until, in December 1980, the Sandinista government caught cold feet about going national.[78]

The further spread of the OW in the 1980s was due partly to de Morais visiting other Latin American countries where he gave talks and lectures and attended seminars at a number of universities,[79][10][80][81][82] but mainly due to the fact that Honduras in general and the Honduran Guanchias center[83][84][85] in particular had become a magnet[86] for field and middle management personnel and members of the campesino membership enterprises from other Latin American countries as well as from the Caribbean. They were sponsored to participate in the Honduran workshops by the Inter American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) and by the Foundation for Applied Capacitation and Research in Agrarian Reform (CIARA).[87][88] Those participants "reproduced the same type of experiments in Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Dominica and Belize. In several of them, the Netherlands' Hivos and the Honduran Institute for Rural Development (IDHER) played a very important role".[87][89][80][90] Thus, for example, from 1979 onwards, one hundred OWs were organized in Colombia, resulting in 400 job-generating enterprises.[91] Sobrado points out that "the example, the Honduran Oscar Leiva and the Chilean Iván Labra", together with de Morais himself,[10] pioneered the OW in Venezuela. Subsequent to the 1980 CIARA-sponsored Conference on the OW in Caracas, 96 new OW Directors organized 286 workshops in which 11,440 Venezuelans participated.[81]

In 1984 and 1985 de Morais was active in

In 1986, Ian Cherrett,[95] then Hivos representative for southern Africa, and Cephas Muropa,[96] with the support of Glen Forest Training Centre (Harare, Zim.)[97] ran the very first OW in anglophone southern Africa at the Rujeko Cooperative Makoni Makoni District (Zim.). Not without considerable difficulties, however. That was the moment when Hivos, through Cherrett, invited the Social Psychologists Isabel and Iván Labra, with long, hands-on experience of running workshops in Latin America, to come to Zimbabwe.[97][98] The magazine "Workteam"[99] spread further knowledge about the OW to a wider English-speaking public in Africa.[100] Workteam subsequently reported on workshops which took place in Botswana (with the support of CORDE), Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia and the Caribbean.

de Morais became visiting professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin[10] in 1986, and at the University of Rostock (GDR) where he was awarded a doctorate in Sociology in 1987.[101][102][103]

1988: Back in Brazil

Civilian rule was restored in Brazil with the coming to power of president

University of Brasilia, invited Clodomir, then still in Rostock, to Brasilia to set up the Institute for Technical Support to Third World Countries (IATTERMUND)[104][105] to tackle one of the country's gravest problems, the 'hidden civil war of unemployment'.[5][6][104][106]
The first request for OWs in Brazil came from the 30 self-managing Landless Workers' Movement (MST) cooperatives which subsequently changed their slogan from "Invade! Occupy!" to "Invade! Occupy! Produce!".[107] Soon to follow the MST lead was the POLONOROESTE project, jointly funded by the Brazilian Ministry of National Integration,

The Supervisory Development Authority for Amazônia (SUDAM) (1996–2002) reports that, with IATTERMUND's 'APRENDER-FAZENDO' (Learn by doing) methodology, the POLONOROESTE program in 1992–3 ran OWs in

Paraiba and Alagoas.[110] It ran a pilot project in 1996 in Tocantins followed by a full program of 59 Field OWs, two Course OWs and one Course for future OW Directors in Pará, Amapá, Amazonia, Acre and in the Municipality of Belém in which 20,059 persons participated, resulting in 696 new Enterprises yielding 5,596 new jobs.[111] Correia estimates that, based on IATTERMUND and different state, municipality, as well as MST sources which she researched, in the decade from 1988 to 1998, "around 100,000 people participated in various OW events in Brazil".[112] From 1996 to 1998 22,000 people participated in 'PAE' (Self Employment Program – under the banner "More than a job: a Future")[113] in the heavily urbanized state of São Paulo resulting in 711 new enterprises, including People's Banks ("Bancos do Povo")[114] The OW reached its apogee when, in 2000-2 alone, under the national 'PRONAGER', 110,946 people participated in 282 OWs.[115][116] In many of these, especially Centre and Course OW-type of events, de Morais himself was always personally involved as coordinator and/or Course Director. He did not limit himself to Brazil and personally directed the 3-month (September–December 2000) national PRONACAMPO Course OW for around 1,000 Guatemalan OW technicians, directors and assistants in Guatemala City.[117]

After the Workers' Party/PT electoral victory in 2003, large regional and national-scale OW 'PRONAGER' programs such as those that took place under the previous Fernando Henrique Cardoso's Brazilian Social Democracy Party dwindled both in size and in number. From then on, OWs in Brazil continue to be run on a more local(ized) basis, such as the Rondonia OWs in 2002.[118] From September 2012 to January 2013 de Morais directed the Guajará Mirim Course OW.[119]

In the meantime region-wide OW programs and government-sponsored OW events have taken on a life on their own, especially in the last decade, in Costa Rica[120] and South Africa.[121][122][52][123]

de Morais was visiting professor at the

Federal University of Rondônia/UNIR (Amazonia)(2003–09), the Chapingo Autonomous University (Mexico) (2000–2002) and the Autonomous University of Honduras
(2006–08).

In 2013 he returned to his hometown in Bahía State, where he died on 25 March 2016.

See also

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ UNIR, Amazonia, Brazil[1] Archived 7 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Human Rights Prize
  3. ^ "OW Methodology". Seriti.org.za. Archived from the original on 27 June 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  4. ^ There is no routine translation for or equivalent to the 'latino' term "MCM" (Método de Capacitación Masiva) as, in English, 'capacitación' is usually presented or translated as 'Training' and/or 'Professional Development' as in, for example, Large Group Professional Development or Large Group Interventions Archived 24 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Moraisean 'capacitation', on the other hand, is activity-based. See, for example: Andersson 2013a, Labra 1992.
  5. ^ a b de Morais in Salinas & Oswald 2002, pp. 471–480 "Cultura y Paz y la Guerra Civil Camuflada del Desempleo – Culture and Peace and the Hidden Civil War of Unemployment".
  6. ^ a b Morais 2002a.
  7. ^ Moraes 1970.
  8. ^ Sobrado in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, Ch. 2 Clodomir Santos de Morais: the Origins of the Large Group Capacitation Method and Theory
  9. ^ a b Sobrado in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 15
  10. ^ a b c d e Neto 2012.
  11. ^ Jornal do Comercio
  12. ^ CeCAC 2005.
  13. ^ Moraes 1970, p. 467.
  14. ^ When the Pernambuco Agricultural and Cattle Raising Society of Planters, SAPP, located on the Galiléia Plantation, in Vitória de Santo Antão, Pernambuco, was formed. Re: Peasant Leagues /Ligas Camponêsas Archived 3 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ "Ligas Camponesas – Peasant Leagues" (in Portuguese). São Francisco Portal. Archived from the original on 3 September 2013.
  16. ^ Thomaz 2009.
  17. ^ Correia in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 39 From Paulo Freire to Clodomir Santos de Morais: from Critical to Organizational Consciousness
  18. ^ known originally as 'Experimental Workshop on Theory of Organization' (EWTO) see: Labra & Labra 2012, p. 2 and Van Dam 1982, pp. 69–72 5.6: for the nature and reason for the artificial aspect of the 'Experimental' Workshop.
  19. ^ Correia 2001, p. 142 – How the OWs evolved – includes discussion of why 'Experimental' was dropped.
  20. ^ Andersson 2004, p. 130 – The Origins of the OW.
  21. Santander
    .
  22. ^ Freire & Guimarães 1987, p. 46.
  23. ^ Cavalcanti 1980, p. 70.
  24. ^ Freire & Guimarães 1987, p. 135 "Carta a Clodomir Moraes – Letter to Clodomir Moraes, "my comrade-in-arms, my friend"-Freire.
  25. ^ Paulo Freire and Clodomir Morais Archived 17 August 2013 at archive.today in 1997 at the University of Rondônia (Amazonia) See also Correia in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 39 – A final moment with Paulo Freire 1997
  26. ^ Ato No1
  27. ^ To be understood in the context of President Jânio Quadros' visit, the year before, to Cuba, accompanied by two League Officers re: Moraes, 1970 p.478 and the Left’s armed struggle in Brazil
  28. ^ Freire & Guimarães 1987, p. 46 Clodomir é um grande contador de estórias – 'great storyteller'.
  29. ^ Cavalcanti 1980, p. 70 Ch VI – de Morais telling stories and playing the piano in Recife prison.
  30. ^ José 2005.
  31. ^ Morais 2002b.
  32. ^ Morais 2002c.
  33. ^ Morais 2002d.
  34. ^ Morais 2009.
  35. ^ ICIRA
  36. ^ INA
  37. ^ a b Correia 2001, pp. 145–7.
  38. ^ Rojas in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 79
  39. ^ Correia in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 198
  40. ^ Correia 2001, p. 149.
  41. ^ Correia in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 198
  42. ^ Van Dam 1982, pp. 43–4.
  43. ^ Correia 2001, p. 166.
  44. ^ see 1980's period: OW spread by former Guanchias recruits and notes 67–69 below
  45. ^ Correia 2001, p. 143.
  46. ^ Sobrado inCarmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 81
  47. ^ Bataán
  48. ^ re: Morais 1987, p. 137
  49. ^ Sobrado in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 53
  50. ^ Barrantes 1998.
  51. Organization Workshop
    'Long term survival'
  52. ^ a b c see also 'External Links'
  53. ^ Morais 1975.
  54. ^ PROCCARA
  55. ^ Morais 1976.
  56. ^ Later on, in Brazil, known as PROGER (Employment and Income Generation Program), PRONAGER (National Program for Employment and Income Generation) and SIPGER/SIPGEI (Employment and Income Generation – Identification – System): Nacif 1998 and Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 175 Correia Ch 17 The Brazilian SIPGEI
  57. ^ Erazo & Fajardo 1980.
  58. ^ Correia 2001, pp. 147and164.
  59. ^ Silveira 1997.
  60. ^ INA 1974.
  61. ^ Hondupalma celebrated its 30th year Archived 15 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine of operation in 2012
  62. ^ Palm Oil Producers in Honduras Salama p3 Archived 2 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  63. ^ "Coapalma abona L15 millones a Banadesa". La Prensa. 3 January 2013.
  64. ^ Correia 2001, p. 181 The PRODERITH Program in Mexico.
  65. ^ See Rojas in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 70, Ch 7 Correia 2001, p. 186 for a full-length description of Tampaón (San Luis Potosí) OW experience.
  66. ^ Rojas in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 77
  67. ^ "HUATUSCO – Unión Regional Pequeños Productores Café Huatusco". Fair Trade USA. Archived from the original on 9 July 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  68. ^ Carmen & Sobrado 2000, pp. 78, 166 and 217
  69. ^ Ruiz, Victor (12 October 2008). "Inician Laboratorio Organizacional de Terrenos en la Chontalpa Norte". The Tabasco Herald.
  70. ^ Verónica Viloria is one of the group of OW Directors formed by de Morais personally when he was visiting professor in Chapingo in 2000-2
  71. ^ Balboa, Berenice (4 May 2010). "Generan cooperativas 50 mil empleos" [Cooperatives generate 50,000 jobs]. El Universal (in Spanish).
  72. ^ "Amplía GDF programa "Qué buena puntada"" [The Federal Government expands the Buena Puntada Program]. El Universal (in Spanish). 23 September 2010. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
  73. ^ INSCOOP
  74. ^ a b Correia in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, pp. 174–5
  75. ^ I.&I.Labra in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 159 Ch15 'Post Salazar Portugal'
  76. ^ I.&I. Labra inCarmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 156 Ch.15
  77. ^ Morais 1987, p. 138-9.
  78. Organization Workshop 'Controversy' section and Van Dam 1982
    , p. 56-7 "the Sandinista State felt that it had to be in complete control, including of 'Popular Participation'
  79. ^ In his 1987 doctoral thesis Morais 1987, p. 137 de Morais cites a number of international meetings on the OW which he either chaired or attended: the 1975 Tegucigalpa (Hond.) Seminar with delegates from 6 countries in the Central American isthmus, plus Mexico and Venezuela; the two San José (Costa Rica) Symposia of 1977 and 1981 in which most previous countries took part, 'plus delegates from Colombia, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Haiti' and the Caracas conference (Venezuela) of 1982 with participation from Central America and Venezuela.
  80. ^ a b IICA 1979.
  81. ^ a b Sobrado in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 83
  82. ^ In later years, under the auspices of the EU ALFA Archived 10 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine network, an international conference with Clodomir as guest speaker was organized in 1998 in Manchester, UK (Carmen, Labra & Davis 1999). A number of Masters and PhD theses were written on the OW in Spanish, English, Portuguese and Italian.
  83. ^ Rojas in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, e.g. p.79 "30-strong Mexican delegation sent to Guanchias"
  84. ^ Morais 1974a.
  85. ^ Morais 1974b.
  86. ^ Correia 2001, p. 166: "the center became a kind of 'OW factory'".
  87. ^ a b Labra & Labra 2012, p. 3.
  88. ^ Sobrado in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 83 and p149 (Dominican Republic)
  89. ^ IICA 1977.
  90. ^ Sobrado in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 81 Chapter 8 The OW in Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru
  91. ^ Carmen & Sobrado 2002a, p. 143.
  92. ^ Correia 2001, p. 150.
  93. ^ delegates from Africa had already attended the 5-month OW he ran in Portugal in 1979 – see 'Portugal' above.
  94. ^ I.&I.Labra in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 92: First wave OWs in Mozambique
  95. ^ Ian Cherrett
  96. ^ New Internationalist 1983
  97. ^ a b Labra & Labra in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, pp. 117–119
  98. ^ Andersson 2013b.
  99. ^ Gaborone, Botswana
  100. ^ Among others by means of a cartoon series on de Morais. Andersson 2004, pp. 155–160 reproduces four of those cartoons.
  101. ^ Correia 2001, p. 151
  102. ^ Morais 1987.
  103. ^ Correia in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 175 Ch 7 "The UNB, IATTERMUND, Janio Quadros and the MST
  104. ^ a b Correia on IATTERMUND in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 175 "The UNB, IATTERMUND, Jãnio Quadros and the MST" – Ch 17
  105. ^ website temporarily suspended
  106. ^ de Morais in Carmen, Labra & Davis 1999, p. 78 "All we have to show [for the billions in rural development aid] is what we have referred to as 'the Hidden Civil war of Unemployment' and the continent turned into one big scrapyard of farm machinery."
  107. ^ Correia in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p. 200
  108. ^ part of the POLOBORAESTE BRA/87/037 program, administered by the EMATER-RO 'Technical and Rural Extension Assistance Service of Rondônia' Service re: Monteiro, Silvio Tavares (1990). A Capacitação para Formação de Empresas Associativas – Capacitation for the Formation of Associative Enterprises (in Portuguese). Brasilia: IATTERMUND.
  109. ^ "BRA/87/037 FAO Online catalogue". Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  110. ^ see External Links
  111. ^ PRONAGER/PRODUCIR Archived 23 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Results from 1996–2002.
  112. ^ Correia 2001, p. 193.
  113. ^ Correia in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p186
  114. ^ Programa de Auto-Emprego – PAE (PDF) (in Portuguese). DIEESE. 2002. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2013.
  115. ^ "PRODUZIR report" (PDF) (in Portuguese). FAO. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  116. ^ Correia in Carmen & Sobrado 2000, p188 (Ch.18) and p175-7
  117. ^ Correia 2001, p. 209.
  118. ^ "Rondonoticias" Archived 2 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine 21 November 2002
  119. ^ "Guajará Mirim". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  120. ^ GERMINADORA Archived 23 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Program
  121. ^ Andersson 2004.
  122. ^ Andersson 2010.
  123. ^ In South Africa, the OW was applied by, among others, the Seriti Institute, Soul City Institute and government departments such as South Africa's Department of Social Development.

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