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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In May 2017, Brazil's unions united in Brasilia, marched against coup President Michel Temers' labor reforms and were brutally attacked by the police. I filmed it and am shocked to learn that Guilherme Boulos' millionaire financier Walfrido Warde blames unions for the reforms.
In a 2020 Op Ed, Warde, the corporate lawyer/president of NED-connected Instituto IREE accusing the union movement of standing by, perplexed and inert as the [post labor reform] number of people with signed work cards shrunk, replaced by freelancers cartacapital.com.br/artigo/a-esque…
He goes on to accuse the big Union Federations - the implication is that he's talking about the CUT - of turning their backs on gig economy app drivers. He wrote this 5 years after CUT helped form the first Uber drivers union in Brazil. mariaterezamagrani.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/41813…
As famine reaches its highest levels since the 1990s, Brazil's most radical left squatters movement, Movimento de Luta nos Bairros, Vilas e Favelas (MLB), coordinated simultaneous occupations of supermarkets 10 cities yesterday, demanding their right to food. +
Brazilians have the right to not go hungry, thanks to constitutional amendment 47, approved in Congress and ratified by Lula on February 5, 2003.
The PT sacrificed lot of historic goals in the name of taking and holding onto power, but it did fulfill its most important promise to the Brazilian people - to end hunger. In 2014, the UN removed Brazil from the World Hunger Map.apnews.com/article/5c74f9…
IPEC 2022 presidential election poll looks at 2 possible scenarios. In the 1st, disgraced ex-Lava Jato judge Sergio Moro appears in 3rd with 8%. The 2nd scenario includes folkloric, Christian fireman/former PSOL Congressman Cabo Daciolo. Here, Moro drops to 6%. Coincidence?
Daciolo joined PSOL after leading a Rio fireman's strike in 2011. He was elected to congress in 2014. In 2015, he was kicked out of PSOL for proposing an amendment changing wording in the Constitution from "All power emanates from the people", to "All power emanates from God."
During the 2018 presidential race, he provided a lot of comic relief in the debates, beginning every speech by saying "Glory to God" in a thick Rio de Janeiro accent. As the election date neared, he moved to a mountain top to live as a hermit.
Happy 74th to Dilma Rousseff, former accountant for VAR-Palmares, political prisoner, energy technocrat, Chief of Staff to President Lula, and Brazil's 1st woman president - illegally impeached in a US-backed effort to turn Brazil's petroleum over to imperialist multinationals.
The charge used to impeach her, fiscal pedaling - which she was later exonerated from - was not legally categorized as an impeachable offense in Brazil. It was legalized by the Senate 2 days after she left office and is currently practiced by the Bolsonaro administration.
In 2016, +- 8% of Brazil's pre-salt petroleum reserves (among the world's largest) were owned by foreign companies. By 2019, 75% had been auctioned off at pennies on the dollar. Unlike in the Middle East, the US didn't have to invade, thanks to Brazil's comprador bourgeoisie.
As Julian Assange's extradition approaches, let's remember how Wikileaks exposed Sergio Moro's role in the birth of the US/Curitiba Public Prosecutors Lava Jato investigation, which destroyed key sectors of Brazil's development strategy and helped put Bolsonaro in power. ctd
"This is the first regional conference conducted under the Projeto PONTES (Translation: Bridges Project) umbrella, a new training concept post introduced in February 2009 to consolidate bi-lateral law enforcement training."
"Judge Sergio Moro then discussed the 15 most common issues he sees in money laundering cases in the Brazilian Courts. U.S. presenters discussed [...] formal and informal international cooperation [...], plea bargaining,"
Hackers invaded the Brazilian health system last night and deleted 50 TB of data. Citizens can no longer prove vaccination for international travel. Lula switched goverment systems to Linux in 2003. After the 2016 coup, Michel Temer switched back to Microsoft- at taxpayer expense
Update (7 hours later). The Health dpt site is back online and hackers, who call themselves the Lapsus$ Group were bluffing about the 50 TB of stolen data. Meanwhile, they've hacked into the Education Ministry and insulted Bolsonaro. terra.com.br/noticias/brasi…