Brazil

Politicians Seeking To Impeach Dilma, Accused Of Greater Corruption

March 30, 2016 Vincent Bevins, www.latimes.com Educate! Brazil, Impeachment, President

By Vincent Bevins for The Los Angeles Times - Efforts to impeach Brazil's president accelerated this month as the country fell into full-blown crisis. But the congressional commission that will help decide Dilma Rousseff's fate has its own legal problems. Of 65 members on the impeachment commission, 37 face charges of corruption or other serious crimes, according to data prepared for the Los Angeles Times by the local organization Transparencia Brasil. The commission does not represent just the congressional faction that wants Rousseff impeached, but contains members of both the ruling coalition and the opposition.

Impeachment Likelihood In Brazil Grows As Dilma Coalition Falls Apart

March 30, 2016 Anthony Boadle, www.reuters.com Educate! Brazil, Impeachment

By Anthony Boadle for Reuters - Brazil's largest party announced on Tuesday it was leaving President Dilma Rousseff's governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that sharply raises the odds she could be impeached in a matter of months. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) took just a few minutes to decide unanimously in a packed leadership meeting that its six ministers in Rousseff's Cabinet and all other party members with government appointments must resign immediately.

Newsletter: The Unfolding Story Of Latin America

March 27, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Argentina, Boliva, Brazil, Cuba, Democracy, Ecuador, Honduras, Imperialism, oligarchy, Venezuela

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Latin America has been a key battleground in the conflict between neo-liberal capitalism and US hegemony against the growing people power that is demanding a more equitable economy that builds from the bottom up and is more democratic. Venezuela has been the focal point of the campaign against the progressive cycle. The amnesty bill shows the extreme actions the US and oligarchs are willing to take to wrest power from the people and return it to the wealthy business interests. The wealthy have made progress in some key countries leading to people ask whether the progressive cycle has come to an end and what lies ahead for the region.

Washington & Wall Street Fight BRICS Challenge In Brazil

March 23, 2016 Eric Draitser, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! Brazil, BRICS, Wall Street, Washington DC

By Eric Draitser for Mint Press News - NEW YORK — (Analysis) The last decade has seen a remarkable coalescing of non-Western nations in both economic and political partnerships. These multilateral institutions have been championed as alternatives to Western organs of political and economic power such as NATO, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. From the growth of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union, China’s “One Belt, One Road” strategy to link much of the Eurasian landmass...

Brazil Engulfed By Ruling Class Corruption

March 19, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman, and David Miranda, www.theintercept.com Educate! Brazil, Corruption, Ruling Class

By Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman, and David Miranda for The Intercept - THE MULTIPLE, REMARKABLE crises subsuming Brazil are now garnering substantial Western media attention. That’s understandable given that Brazil is the world’s fifth most populous country and eighth-largest economy; its second-largest city, Rio de Janeiro, is the host of this year’s Summer Olympics. But much of this Western media coverage mimics the propaganda coming from Brazil’s homogenized, oligarch-owned, anti-democracy media outlets and, as such, is misleading, inaccurate, and incomplete...

Protests Against Transportation Hikes Continue Across Brazil

January 16, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Brazil, Transit, Transportation

By Staff of Tele Sur - Recife has joined the larger cities Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in protesting increases in public transportation fares, while demanding improved services. Protests in Brazil over the cost of public transit spread to the coastal city of Recife Friday as demonstrators took to the streets to say no to fare hikes, local media reported. Hundreds of protesters gathered in the center of Brazil’s fifth largest city to demand free transit passes instead of fare hikes from 3.50 reais (US$0.87) to 3.80 reais (US$0.95), which demonstrators have said is an unjustified increase given the state of public transit services.

Neoliberalism Raises Its Ugly Head In South America

January 8, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Argentina, Brazil, Neoliberalism, Venezuela

By Staff of Tele Sur - After 9-11, the United States focused its most aggressive foreign policy on the Middle East – from Afghanistan to North Africa. But the deal recently worked out with Iran, the current back-door negotiations over Syria between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and the decision to subsidize, and now export, U.S. shale oil and gas production in a direct reversal of U.S. past policy toward Saudi Arabia – together signal a relative shift of U.S. policy away from the Middle East.

Brazil Charged With Ethnocide In Building Of Amazon Dam

December 27, 2015 Sue Branford, www.mongabay.com Resist! Brazil, Dams, Energy, Environment, Ethnocide, Genocide

By Sue Branford for Mongabay. Brazil’s Public Federal Ministry (Ministério Público Federal, MPF), an independent state body, has started legal proceedings to have it recognised that the crime of “ethnocide” was committed on seven indigenous groups due to the severe detrimental impacts on their lives made by the building of the giant Belo Monte hydroelectric power station that will soon begin operating on the Xingu River in eastern Amazonia. The charges have been made against Brazil’s federal government and Norte Energia, the contractor that built the dam. After carrying out a lengthy study that fills 50 books and includes contributions from a wide range of experts, the MPF has concluded that the “social organization, customs, languages and traditions” of the indigenous groups have been destroyed by the construction of the dam. The MPF says: “The villages became covered in garbage, with a proliferation of disease as a result, illnesses such as high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes became common because of the change in diet, child mortality surged, along with alcoholism, drug consumption and prostitution”.

Massive Student March Repressed By Military Police

December 11, 2015 Erin Gallagher, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Brazil, Education, Protests

By Erin Gallagher for Revolution News - São Paulo, Brazil: Students and teachers in São Paulo continue to protest against conservative Governor Alckmin’s attempts to “reorganize” the educational system in São Paulo which will involve closing almost 100 schools. The student movement is fully autonomous and self-organized with protesters mostly between the ages of 13 to 18 occupying high schools around the city. As of the time of this publication, the website keeping track listed a total of 219 occupied schools. Plans for the reorganization have been temporarily suspended so occupation numbers may be dropping.

Brazil Students Occupy 200 Schools Stop Restructuring of Schools

December 5, 2015 Cedar Attanasio, www.latintimes.com Resist! Brazil, Education, Student Protests

By Cedar Attanasio for Latin Times - Judge Iberê de Castro Dias has halted the controversial restructuring program that would have closed down more than 90 schools in the state of Sao Paulo Folhia's Monica Bergamo reports. The report coincided with another student protest Friday morning, in which 90 student protesters blocked a main street with school desks, according to @bentavener. Among the reasons for the freeze? Federal constitutional requirements to spend on children first. Alkmin's original reason for the restructuring, which cuts education spending, was meant for austerity. But a judge now says that he needs to open a period of public comment and focus on other areas to cut first

Electoral Revolution In Brazil To Neutralize Corporate Influence

October 6, 2015 Mario Osava, Create! Brazil, Electoral Politics

By Mario Osava for IPS - RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 29 2015 (IPS) - From now on, elections in Brazil will be more democratic, without corporate interference, which had become decisive and corruptive. A Sep. 17 Supreme Court ruling declared unconstitutional articles of the elections act that allow corporate donations to election campaigns. The 8-3 verdict came in response to a legal challenge brought by the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) against the laws authorising and regulating donations by big corporations to political parties and candidates. In its challenge to the constitutionality of the elections act articles in question, the OAB argued that they violate the democratic principle – the backbone of the 1988 constitution – which established that all citizens are political equals, with each individual vote carrying the same weight.

Brazil Bans Corporations From Political Donations

September 20, 2015 Bruce Douglas, www.theguardian.com Create! Brazil, Campaign Finance, Corruption, Elections

By Bruce Douglas for The Guardian. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Amid a massive corruption scandal which has tarnished Brazil’s political class and driven the country’s president to the brink of impeachment, the Brazilian supreme court has banned corporate donations to candidates and parties in future elections. With eight votes in favour and three against, the court declared late on Thursday that the rules allowing companies to donate to election campaigns were unconstitutional. Around 76% of the over R$3bn ($760m) donated during last year’s election campaigns for the presidency, senate and congress came from corporate entities. Both the ruling leftwing Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) and the main opposition Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) received over R$1bn each.

Rival Movements Duel Over The Future Of Brazil

September 13, 2015 Marianna Olinger, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Brazil, Corporatism, Democracy

By Marianna Olinger for Waging Nonviolence - Brazil is experiencing, once again, a historical divide. Part of the population wants to turn left and another right. The complex situation is much more ideological than most commentators acknowledge. Some believe President Dilma Rousseff and the Workers’ Party haven’t been following the dictates of neoliberalism closely enough, while others argue the opposite — that corporations have far too much power. While social movements were successful in helping to re-elect President Rousseff, the results of the congressional elections were a disaster for those fighting for social justice. Brazil elected the most conservative pro-corporate Congress since the end of the military dictatorship in the early 1980s. In its first six months the ultra-conservative lower house has voted against ending corporate funding in political campaigns, and in favor of increasing outsourcing, lowering the criminal age from 18 to 16 years-old, and finally, on August 12, an anti-terrorism law that opens the road to the further criminalization of social movements. And they are not finished: Two bills that social movements struggled for years to get passed — regarding net neutrality and limiting the sale and use of firearms by civilians — are next in line for review in the legislature.

Luci Murphy: Cultural Warrior For The Movement

August 21, 2015 Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com Resist! Activism, Brazil, Cuba, Palestine, Social Justice

By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Luci Murphy in Black Agenda Report - Luci Murphy is a preeminent advocate of utilizing culture to advance social and political justice. She is often the featured vocalist at progressive events. Her boundless energy has made Luci indispensable in organizing Latin American solidarity, the peace movement, sustainable development and other progressive causes. She is a native of D.C. where she is a vocalist who often leads group singing, but “sun-lights” as a medical interpreter of Spanish and English. She has a long history of community activism, especially working with children at risk. Luci visited Lebanon to observe Palestinian Refugee Camps, China just before the normalization of relations with the U.S., Brazil for a grass-roots organizing conference, and Cuba to oppose U.S. travel restrictions. A past president of the D.C. League of Women Voters, she has also served on the Steering Committees of the People’s Music Network, "Health Care Now!,” and Washington Inner-City Self Help.

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