Yesterday, I sat in on the São Paulo Central de Movimentos Populares (CMP) planning meeting for 12 simultaneous protests against hunger marked for Dec. 21. 5 years of austerity has brought back famine. Bones are being sold in Brazilian supermarkets for the first time in 20 years
The CMP is a popular (poor/working class) social movement umbrella w/scores of affiliates and around 500,000 members nationwide that started through the liberation theology movement, then broke with the Catholic church in the 90s over the issue of LGBT rights.
During yesterday's meeting, some of the state directors talked about participating in the "Carestia" (famine) protests during the neofascist military dictatorship as children. "Let's teach the young people the songs we sang and the tactics we used," one leader said.
This is the end result of the 2016 coup and 5 years of US puppet-rulers unnecessary dismantling of the social safety nets established during the PT years: growth stunting for millions of malnourished and hungry children.
Remember this when you see all the self-proclaimed, bourgeois US leftists backpeddling and downplaying their years of support for the coup and Lula's arbitrary, political imprisonment.
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