Stedile: Structural Reform on the agenda for the 11th July mobilizations
We have not had such vigorous street mobilizations since the campaign for “Rights Now” in the '80s. The protests which exploded with
the youth indignation were just the tip of the iceberg of the profound social and economic problems that persist in our society. On one hand, the big cities have become a living hell, where workers pay high costs for low quality public transport. Besides that, they spend two or three hours a day traveling, a pure waste of time.
Those who managed to buy an automobile, financed by international finance capital, are realizing that they paid dearly for the ability not to be able to move. The auto assembly companies and the associated banks have never before sent so much money abroad.
For another thing, the political life of the country is a disgrace. The congressmen only represent their campaign financiers. The judiciary is an oligarchic power, the last of the state powers not yet republican.
Every day there is news about their corruption, which goes unpunished. Even the President of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Joaquim Barbosa, used public money to go to a national soccer team match .... the Globo network did not denounce the fact and, coincidentally, has just hired the son of the illustrious judge. Some coincidence!
icas (ALBA) met between May 16-May 20. It brought together more than 200 delegates from 22 Latin American countries representing diverse social movements.
The murder of the rural farmer Regina occurs eleven days after the execution of Cicero Guedes dos Santos, 48, leader of the MST in Campos dos Goytacazes (RJ)
Campaign for Justice for Felisburgo in the Settlement Emiliano Zapata, in Uberlândia, Triangulo Mineiro
Campos dos Goytacazes (RJ).
September 20, 2012