The Cry of the Excluded (Portuguese: Grito dos Excluídos) is a number of popular demonstrations in Brazil held every year during the week of September 7, the Brazilian Independence Day, to ask for attention for the people that are excluded of all what makes life worth as a human being. Started in 1995 as an initiative of the Roman Catholic bishops, since then it has settled down in more than 20 countries in the Americas and the Caribbean.