Dialogo e Acçao

Mission and Values ​​Association Dialogue and Action / Zulunation Portugal

Dialogue and Action The Association's mission is to sustain, guide and defend the rights of girls and boys in disadvantaged conditions with direct action. This is where working with a peaceful dialogue and exercising citizenship, self-esteem and appreciation of its potential, enabling multipliers cultural agents in the promotion of Hip Hop culture and the solidification of the 5th element of Hip Hop culture: ("The consciousness that conveys the social side of this aesthetic and political-cultural movement, of which the breakdancing, graffiti, DJ and MC are the first four elements. This appreciation of the social aspect facilitates the reading of the Rap, and the expression of its elements, territory as mental thoughts, feelings and perceptions of constructing narratives, letters, sustainable, democratic, collaborative dialogues, his unique sense of outrage, nonviolent transformation and celebration of life. "

"FIGHT FOR KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, UNDERSTANDING, FREEDOM, JUSTICE, EQUALITY, PEACE, UNITY, LOVE, RESPECT, WORK and FUN. FIGHT TO REDUCE THE NEGATIVE and POSITIVE RAISE. "

The Dialogue and Action / Zulunation Portugal has two pilot projects ("Hip Hop Lipstick - Fight in combating violence against women" and "Hip Hop for peace - promoting peace in the Social Districts of Lisbon") who had successful partner as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. We also performed the project "Look for me" with the support of the Municipality of Lisbon and the project "Hip Hop in Action - Combat Exclusion and Marginalization" supported by the Youth in Action Programme.

The "Towards Taking" project started in 2012 in prisons of Leiria and Linhó, aiming to support human development and the construction of a new project of life for inmates in combating criminal recidivism.