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275:'s Goa Youth League (GYL) and in 1945, she was chosen as the Secretary of its Goa unit. She was often seen at the side of Cunha at protests and speeches in South Goa. Some of their meetings would be held at the Menezes Bragança house in Chandor. She and her sister,
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Menezes Bragança continued her distribution of nationalist propaganda from
Belgaum. In 1952, she was chosen as the President of the Belgaum branch of the National Congress (Goa). Later, in 1953, she and Furtado founded the fortnightly left-wing publication,
346:. Subtitled as the "Organ of Portuguese India’s Liberation", Furtado was its first editor. With Cunha's escape to Bombay in 1956, she and Furtado moved there, continuing the publication from there. Cunha also contributed to
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She donated 1,000 square metres (0.25 acres) of land to the
Chandor Sports Club, which built the village's Community Hall on this land.
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on 30 June 1946. However, the
Portuguese police stopped them and beat her, following which the police abandoned them on the roadside in
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Since 1929, Menezes Bragança was part of the Goa committee of the Goa
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and Indian newspapers in Goa. However, on 16 April 1950, she and her husband, António
Furtado, were forced to escape to
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457:in Goa. She was also a part of the
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