"#MarielleFranco [a young, black, favela-bred lesbian woman activist] was exactly what #Brazil needs most, yet so woefully lacks: people who understand the plight of the vast majority of #Brazilians and who are devoted to improving rather than exploiting it.
[The] challenge is to ensure that Franco’s death is not in vain, by using it to galvanise thousands and tens of thousands of new Marielles, inspired by her singularly potent example."
@numberwang fifty... three
@numberwang forty... two
@numberwang bollocks
Um termo novo - #explicarico : Gente rica dando pitaco sobre situações que não vivem e não entendem do cotidiano dos pobres.
A new word - #richsplain : Rich people voicing opinions on situations that they neither lived nor understand of the poor people's everyday life.
Remember the massive #environmental disaster in #Brazil that killed not only people but Doce river when the dam burst? It seems that Samarco, Vale And BHP knew about it 6 effing months beforehand.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/28/brazil-dam-collapse-samarco-fundao-mining
Constatação de inverno: quanto mais caro o carro mais difícil parar na passadeira e mais fácil atravessar poças de água e molhar pedestres. Também constato que as buzinas são melhores e mais fáceis de tocar nos carros de gama alta.
Saw these seagulls flying outside my window earlier today - in the midst of a blizzard.
Felt like shouting: you're drunk, birds, go home!
📷 by Luis Paulo de Sá MMXVIII https://todon.nl/media/A6j86Zhf1mYw3PSdAwI
If you are in #Berlin and want to get an accurate description of the #coup destroying #democracy in #Brazil, check The Trial at the #Berninale
https://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=201814526#tab=video25
Lectura muy recomendable para espectadores ingenuos y desprevenidos...
¿Qué está ocurriendo en 'Stranger Things'? Una lectura alternativa
http://ctxt.es/es/20180124/Politica/17490/El-mentidero-stranger-things-capitalismo-amistad.htm
If you are in #Berlin and want to get an accurate description of the #coup destroying #democracy in #Brazil, check The Trial at the #Berninale
https://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=201814526#tab=video25
As you might have guessed, the military has no legal reason to request IDs and register citizens. This is text-book behaviour in a #coup. (in Portuguese)
Sem amparo legal, militares usam celulares pessoais para ‘fichar’ moradores de favelas
ONG Justiça Global comparou ação ao apartheid e diz que ‘nem ditadura’ adotou esse procedimento
https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2018/02/24/politica/1519433345_411126.html
