Celebrating another year of BdF is an affirmation of choice. For 23 years, this communication project has not been built on an abstract notion of journalism, but on the collective practice of those who understand communication as part of political struggle and the creation of consciousness.
It is from this perspective that we connect our journalistic work to concrete experiences that challenge the prevailing order, experiences that show other paths are possible and that, even when constantly attacked, criminalized, or silenced, we continue to resist.
Founded in the early 2000s, amid a period of reorganization of popular struggles in Brazil, BdF emerged from the urgency to break with hegemonic narratives and broaden access to critical interpretations of reality.
Over more than two decades, the outlet has renewed itself, expanded its reach, and diversified its formats. We launched Radio BdF, consolidated our audiovisual production – including recognition with the Vladimir Herzog Journalism Award in 2025, one of the most important journalism awards in Brazil – and widened our audience without abandoning the historic bond with the popular movements that helped build this project from the beginning.
Embracing journalism committed to the formation of consciousness requires rigor, responsibility, and courage. It means questioning the idea that there is only one possible model of economic, social, and political organization. BdF asserts itself precisely in rejecting this naturalization and in betting on other forms of existence.
To meet these challenges, we start from a fundamental premise: our editorial positioning and political choices do not override the quality, accuracy, and credibility of information. On the contrary, they demand even greater precision, verification, and responsibility. Attempts to delegitimize this commitment reveal less about flaws in method and more about resistance to accepting that there are competing projects for society, and that they must be named. Some cannot tolerate the idea that another world is possible, or that it is already being built and gaining strength.
Throughout these 23 years, we have consolidated a distinct editorial identity and multiple platforms of action. On our website, on radio, and in audiovisual productions, we consistently cover struggles for sovereignty and against imperialism, socialist experiences unfolding around the world, practices that confront the predatory advance of capital, and popular resistances that persist in creating collective responses to structural crises.
Marking this anniversary also means recognizing that this project endures because it is collective. Readers, listeners, viewers, supporters, and those who help share our content are all part of this daily construction. We are deeply grateful.
This year’s celebration comes in the wake of our coverage of the 14th National Meeting of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), one of the largest popular movements in the world, with whom we have walked side by side since our origins. Being where the struggle is taking place is not a symbolic gesture, it is method. By standing with the defense of Popular Agrarian Reform, we reaffirm the understanding that it goes beyond access to land, encompassing the construction of values, practices, and relationships capable of transforming the world and our subjectivities.
We will continue to produce journalism with depth, rigor, and engagement. Honoring these 23 years means staying in motion, with our feet on the ground and our eyes on the horizons we insist on – and dare to – build.
For us, communication has always been a political act. And it will remain so. Long live BdF. Long live the struggle of the peoples of the world.
