This study analyzes the work of the National Movement of Street Boys and Girls in Pernambuco (MNMMR/PE) as a space of resistance against the dismantling of public policies aimed at children and adolescents, especially during the administrations of Michel Temer (2016–2018) and Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022). The research discusses how the movement, created in 1985 and consolidated in Pernambuco, articulates political and pedagogical practices to guarantee the rights of street children and adolescents, in a context marked by social setbacks and the advance of neoliberalism and neoconservatism. The theoretical framework is based on Popular Education (Freire), Epistemologies of the South (Santos), and Social Pedagogy of the Street (Graciani), articulating reflections on participation, protagonism, and emancipation. Methodologically, this is a qualitative study, based on participant research, oral history and systematization of experiences, with listening to activists and analysis of internal documents from MNMMR/PE.The results indicate that, despite the weakening of participatory democracy and social policies, the movement maintains its relevance by promoting political education, strengthening solidarity networks, and building micropolitical strategies of resistance. The conclusion is that the work of the MNMMR/PE reaffirms the role of social movements in the uncompromising defense of human rights, the valorization of popular knowledge, and the production of alternatives for the dignity of historically silenced children.