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Brazil Protests Spread in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Rio 11 Cities Across Brazil

June 18, 2013 Gary Duffy, www.bbc.co.uk Resist! Brazil, Education, Finance and the Economy, Health Care, Transportation

As many as 200,000 people have marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities, as protests over rising public transport costs and the expense of staging the 2014 World Cup have spread. The biggest demonstration was in Rio de Janeiro, where 100,000 people joined a mainly peaceful march. In the capital, Brasilia, people breached security at the National Congress building and scaled its roof. The protests are the largest seen in Brazil for more than 20 years. The way these initial marches were policed - with officers accused of firing rubber bullets and tear gas at peaceful protesters - further incensed Sao Paulo residents and shifted the focus from rising transport costs to wider issues. "We don't have good schools for our kids. Our hospitals are in awful shape. Corruption is rife. These protests will make history and wake our politicians up to the fact we're not taking it anymore," a protester explained.

In Brazil, Clouds of Bombs Fill Skies of Sao Paolo

June 17, 2013 Xenya Bucchioni and Tulio Bucchioni, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Brazil, Transportation

It was 5 pm. Workers, students, senior citizens and families conquered the streets, little by little, in a manifestation of their civil rights to protest freely, acting against the raise of public transportation fares in São Paulo. All together, there were 15000 people – something quite rare in a country not used to expressing on the street, legacy from its 21 years of civil-military dictatorship. The mass media tried delegitimizing the mobilization from its beginning, calling protestors “vandals” and “barbarians”. In response, on Wednesday, June 13th, people claimed for no violence and, instead, were shot with rubber bullets, bombed with tearing gas and hit violently with batons by the MP - Military Police and Rota, special police subordinated to the MP.

Report from Sao Paulo: Massive Police Violence Against Nonviolent Protesters

June 15, 2013 Ezra Teter, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Police abuse, Solidarity, Transportation

The protests in San Paulo, Brazil started with the bus fare hikes but have become about many things, including police violence. When the police started firing tear gas, the protesters stood their ground for a while and chanted, "Thursday will be bigger." It most certainly was. There is a new protest planned for Monday about 15 minutes away from my house. I have already started rescheduling my classes so I can go. I might have a front row seat to history being made. Once again, social media proves to be a better news source for revolutions around the world than the mainstream media. Incredible tumblrs and websites have been popping up documenting what is happening here in São Paulo and why.

A Realistic Radical Remaking of the Economy

June 1, 2013 Lyle Jeremy Rubin, www.dissentmagazine.org Educate! Corporatism, Energy, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Government, Housing, Human Rights, Transportation, Worker Rights and Jobs

We are in a “prehistory” of a radical remaking of the economy—not corporate capitalist, state socialist, or welfare-statist. The historian Howard Brick, in Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought, criticized the post-capitalist imaginings of the past century for failing to make clear how and when the segue to the next stage would take place. The merit of economic democracy thinking is that it is pragmatic and realistic. The present system while failing most Americans and in collapse is resilient but there are growing patterns of resistance. How and, when will resistance get us out of the economic corruption of corporate capitalism? Economic democracy is developing a comprehensive alternative that is as theoretically rigorous and practical, with a blueprint for an economic democracy political program.

New law will ban protesters from mass transit in California

May 1, 2013 Russia Times, rt.com Educate! Human Rights, Transportation

Starting next week, law enforcement officers policing the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in San Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland and other cities can issue bus and subway bans for unruly passengers — and according to one local news report, that power could be used to prevent political protesters from getting to demonstrations or essentially going anywhere.

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