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See this pic posted on Photography Thread

This is the everyday of million of Brazilian workers



It is against this treatment of worker citizens as cattle that people is uprising! Pay a fare each time more expensive by a public transport slow and crowded in unacceptable!
 

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Peple is tired of being treated as cattle.

Inflation is rising, taxes rising, public transport fares rising, but the quality of public services never follow the prices and become better than the past, it is ever the same crap!

People decide say: "that's enough"! for the inefficiency of our State. No more State's failures!!!

State of thing can not keep this way. Something have to change!
Well the same is true all around the world, its the same in India.

Is there any chance of foreign hand in instigating protests against the govt ?
 

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Well the same is true all around the world, its the same in India.

Is there any chance of foreign hand in instigating protests against the govt ?
Until now, nothing was discovered.

For while majority of rioters (85%) considers themselves as with no party filiation. The demonstration are against the two political parties that holds the Brazilian politics in the last 16 years, that is the PT (Workers Party) and PSDB (Brazilian Social-Democracy Party)
 

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This map shows only the big cities that there was demonstrations. In actuality, there was demonstrations and several other small and medium-size cities.

And the right isn't second night of demonstrations, but the seventh night! Demonstrations started day 11 past
 

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Brazil's urban young get their Anna Hazare moment
Shobhan Saxena, TNN

RIO DE JANEIRO: In August 2011, when Anna Hazare was making headlines with his fast at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, a group of Brazilians, wearing Gandhi caps, appeared on the Copacabana beach here in support of India's fight against corruption. It was not just an act of solidarity with a fellow emerging country, it was also an indication of things to come.

On Monday, two weeks of protests against the 20 cents hike in public transport prices swelled into a huge movement as 230,000 people rallied in 12 state capitals and 50 other cities, expressing their anger at the rising inflation, poor public services, police violence, corruption and government spending on stadiums for the 2014 Fifa World Cup. Though largely peaceful, the rallies have seen some violence with small groups lighting up bonfires on streets, breaking glasses and torching buses in some cities.

The situation became serious on Monday night as more than 100,000 people jammed the streets here, with some trying to break into the state assembly and the Municipal Theatre, a city icon. In Sao Paulo, more than 50,000 people marched on the main avenues and a small group tried to storm the governor's palace and the city mayor's office. They were pushed back by police with teargas. In Brasilia, over 20,000 people joined the protests, 7,000 occupied the dome of the National Congress and some anarchists tried to storm the building.

The marches, organized mostly through social media campaigns, paralysed traffic in several cities including Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Brasilia. Without a leader or a clear set of demands, the movement is being run by young, urban students and middle-class professionals, who are sharing the photos of Mahatma Gandhi with the Guy Fawkes mask in his hand and the slogan, "Be the change that you want to see in the world", on social media networks.

Though the protests initially began after the announcement of bus fare hike, they have evolved to include a wide range of groups that have grown dissatisfied over corruption, income inequality and police harsh response to protesters last week. In the past few days, environmental advocates, feminists, human rights organizations, teachers, and parents of protesters arrested in previous acts have joined the protests.

Though President Dilma Rousseff has tried to pacify the protesters by saying the demonstrations are "legitimate and proper democracy", for Brazil the demonstrations couldn't have come at a worst time with the Confederations Cup matches going on in six cities. But a lot of public anger is directed at stadium projects in various cities ahead of the 2014 World Cup, which Brazil is preparing to host. Just one day before the Confederations Cup opened in Brasilia on Sunday, more than 1,000 people rallied in the capital, shouting against the local government and carrying banners saying that too much money was being spent on the Confederations Cup and the World Cup while the majority of the population continued to struggle.

The demonstrators shouted against FIFA, saying football's governing body doesn't have the right to make demands on the Brazilian government. "FIFA, go away," they said. Brazil is spending close to $15 billion on the World Cup and this has become a source of anger in the country, where everything is related to football. No wonder, the biggest protests are happening in the 12 cities that will host the World Cup matches.

Brazil's urban young get their Anna Hazare moment - The Times of India
 

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I know personally Shoban Suxena. He is the correspondent of ToI in Brazil. Sometimes when I see he, we talk a bit
 

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Until now, nothing was discovered.

For while majority of rioters (85%) considers themselves as with no party filiation. The demonstration are against the two political parties that holds the Brazilian politics in the last 16 years, that is the PT (Workers Party) and PSDB (Brazilian Social-Democracy Party)
Well India is fast moving towards a single Party system :heh:
So what is the solution @IBSA ?
 
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The poster at up-right side is write: Mayor and Governor, come to ride on bus. People criticizes the politicists' omission on public services, saying that is because they dont uses it.

The yellow hands at back is writen: Hands at top, 3,20 is an assault! This is a common motto on demonstrations
 

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Well India is fast moving towards a single Party system :heh:
So what is the solution @IBSA ?
Really? Congress is dominating India's politics?? I think that BJP had enough political force to defy Congress on election.

My opinion is "Go to streets" and votes rightly in the next election.

India is the biggest democracy of world, isnt? 1.2 billion of people on streets to frighten everyone!
 
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Really? Congress is dominating India's politics?? I think that BJP had enough political force to defy Congress on election.

My opinion is "Go to streets" and votes rightly in the next election.

India is the biggest democracy of world, isnt? 1.2 billion of people on streets to frighten everyone!
Ohh The Great Indian Political Drama...actually is fought between UPA and NDA group of Political Alliances :yo:, when Congress is making way for Rahul Gandhi towards the next PM seat by removing contenders like Pranab Mukherjee from the competition, a lot of Drama in NDA side too like internal fights and alliance spit, a lot of BJP drama in these days.


Well I should have asked what is the solution for the Brazilian Problem instead, as I intended for a Brazilian discussion in a Brazilian forum.
How much will it effect the chances for Brazil 2014 Fifa World Cup?
 

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:thumb: Well done, people of Brazil. Keep it up. Indians support you all along.
 

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But I would love to see Brazil hosting 2014 Fifa World Cup ....:sad::sad::sad:
 

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Ohh The Great Indian Political Drama...actually is fought between UPA and NDA group of Political Alliances :yo:, when Congress is making way for Rahul Gandhi towards the next PM seat by removing contenders like Pranab Mukherjee from the competition, a lot of Drama in NDA side too like internal fights and alliance spit, a lot of BJP drama in these days.


Well I should have asked what is the solution for the Brazilian Problem instead, as I intended for a Brazilian discussion in a Brazilian forum.
How much will it effect the chances for Brazil 2014 Fifa World Cup?
It would be good if in the presidential elections in 2014, next year, there was a 3rd way as political alternative. As people is unsatisfied with current hegemonic parties, this alternative party with an alternative politicist could be capable to gain the votes of protesters and promote the wanted changes. But who could be this alternative? I fear that protestant christians be this alternative.

While people demonstrating in the streets claim for their real needs, as inhabitation, security, best work conditions, etc, evangelists deputies discuss in Congress the approval of a project to cure gays. They want also to approval a project that people are calling as "rape-bursary", coz it obliges a raped woman to allow the baby to born and that rapist can be the father with the full rights of one.

Evangelists are like a christian version of wahabbism! :sad:
 

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But I would love to see Brazil hosting 2014 Fifa World Cup ....:sad::sad::sad:
At first glance me and all Brazilian would love see this happening and Brazil team winning a World Cup at home.

But the way that the stadium and Cup-works related are being made, with a lot of public money deviation for corrupts pockets, it chaanged the public opinion and today majority of Brazilians are against it.

See this video. One is about policemen demonstrating against bad work conditions and high violence. Brazil is a unsafe country for its own people, and lesser yet for foreigns and tourists. If any IDF member thinks coming to see the World Cup in Brazil I dont recommend.

Dont be a part of corruption schemes, nor put your life at risk.

Warm: Shocking images.
 
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Brazilian unrest claims its first victim


In this photo released by Agencia Brasil, police repel demonstrators trying to invade the Foreign Ministry, during an anti-government protest in Brasilia, Brazil, on Thursday.

Violence breaks out in more than 10 cities as a million people take to the streets across Brazil

About a million people took to the streets of 100 Brazilian cities as their protests against corruption and social and economic injustice saw their first death.

Violence broke out in more than 10 cities late on Thursday and early Friday, and an 18-year-old man was killed and three people were injured when they were hit by a car trying to drive around a protester-erected barricade in Ribeirao Preto, 300 km north of Sao Paolo.

Hundreds of people were injured as the initially peaceful protests were interrupted by clashes as some protesters threw stones and police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse them in a number of cities.

The demonstrations are the largest Brazil has seen in two decades.

Emergency meet called

President Dilma Rousseff postponed a trip she had planned to Japan and called an emergency meeting on Friday morning in Brasilia. Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo, who has been criticised for the security forces' response to the demonstrations, was to attend.

The largest demonstration of the night was in Rio de Janeiro, where 300,000 people turned out. Most of them demonstrated peacefully as they marched in the centre of the city towards the Mayor's office.

The situation escalated, however, as the police fired tear gas grenades. Clashes broke out and rioters set fire to cars and plastic awnings and ripped up fences.

Police on horseback and in armoured vehicles were deployed to fight back the protesters.

"The police completely lost control and are incapable of dealing with such demonstrations," said a television station employee who was hit in the head by a rubber bullet.

Clashes occurred in at least 10 other cities, including the capital, Brasilia, where 30,000 people marched through the government quarter. Police there also fired tear gas and rubber bullets.

Thousands moved towards the Foreign Ministry and built a large fire outside it.

More than 100,000 people took to the streets in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, where the protests were largely peaceful.

In Ribeirao Preto, the driver of the Land Rover that hit the four people drove away from the scene without stopping, media reports said. One of the injured was in a serious condition, they said.

The protests began more than a week ago against a hike in public transport fares but have broadened, taking on corruption and the costs of hosting the Confederations Cup, which is currently being played; the 2014 World Cup; and 2016 Olympics.

The protesters argued that the money for the sporting events should have instead been invested in education, health care and other social programmes.

The crowds grew despite a rollback of the transport fare hike announced on Wednesday.

A national movement

"Corruption is the central issue, and we are dealing here with a national movement," historian Francisco Carlos Teixeira said.

Heavy clashes occurred at an intersection in Campinas near Sao Paulo between police and protesters. In Salvador in Bahia state, where Confederations Cup matches were played on Thursday, rioters set a bus on fire and damaged two mini-buses belonging to football's world governing body, FIFA.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/intern...st-claims-its-first-victim/article4836715.ece
 

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Updating the above news. Now there were two deaths in demonstrations along Brazil.

The second victim is a garbage collector that inhaled so much tear gas and died. So, he was the first victim of State's repression.
 

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Demonstration are becoming so crazy. What the reason to attack the Itamaraty Palace (headquarters of Foreign Relations Ministry)??

Our foreign policies affects only the outsiders, not Brazilian people.
 

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Brazilians living in Delhi also send their wishes of changes for Brazil.




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