A seguridade social em pauta: a luta política dos/as idosos/as

In this article I propose thinking of the elderly in the condition of political actors who, by direct action, move around and impose themselves as subjects capable of intervening in public decision-making and modify existing cultural patterns related to the way of life of those who age. I seek to illustrate this analysis with the one of the creation of the Permanent Forum in Defense of the Elderly in the state of Bahia. This presents itself as a new strategy to broaden the support base of the movement of the retirees and pensioners who, in various manifestations in the streets and public squares of Salvador, always focused their speeches on the defense the rights of all elderly as well as the defense of Public Social Security, specifically against the reforms of Social Security, considered of privatizing nature