(en) Brazil, PROTEST IS NOT CRIME! Stop the Criminalization OF THE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS! by rusgalibertaria (pt)

In the first half there were several demonstrations from north to south of Brazil who 
faced conservative reaction of governments, the repressive apparatus and the media. Since 
the struggle in defense of public transport in the capital cities, through the strikes at 
construction sites of the PAC until the resistance of the indigenous native peoples, all 
these fights were targets of criminalization of protest following ongoing in host country 
of the World Cup. ---- We live in one of the most acute attacks of the ruling classes to 
people originating in Brazil. International capital advances daily strides, exploiting 
workers and workers in pursuit of profit. ---- The World Cup is coming! And in addition to 
mega-events like this, we have the mega-projects of the PAC (Growth Acceleration Plan) and 
the IIRSA (Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America).

With them, the implementation of many of the current urban policy, rural energy and 
manifest themselves in the form of these attacks, further deepening the wounds of these
500 years of massacres!

Expropriations and evictions are in full swing and ventures arise in the blink of an eye. 
The money of the people, in a split second, the waste down the drain. In various host 
cities (and even those that do not will host) the Cup, buildings and more buildings are
announced. Bidding bidding, contractors wins at the expense of the sweat of the people,
and state and local governments lay in his juggernaut run for the benefit of big business 
and real estate speculation.

While advancing major projects to benefit the elites, is also part of this process the 
criminalization of poverty and protest the repression and persecution of those who fight 
against injustice in this country.

The fight for public transport as test power of the oppressed city.

Every year in different cities of our country we are attacked in the first few months by 
the employer transport together with the public with outrageous price increases in bus 
fares. The poor transportation involving buses in bad shape (without the necessary 
adaptations for disabled), delayed and overcrowded lines, a system of overexploitation 
sector workers combined with a exorbitant fare, are part of a series of slights imposed by 
the Up the workers and oppressed from north to south of the country.

This scandalous situation has led especially the youth to mobilize and take to the streets 
against the increases, the free pass student and unemployed and another transport model, 
which is 100% p?blico.J? goes over a decade where numerous capital Brazil began to be 
literally shaken by struggles against rising bus fares and the free pass for students and 
unemployed. We have the example of the latest victories that gave the force of the streets 
in Porto Alegre / RS and Goi?nia / GO. Far from having been a unique achievement of the
performance of a particular party, the repeal of the tariff increase is the result of 
forceful decision that thousands of young people, workers and unemployed, took to the 
streets, occupied terminals, organized pickets in garages and mobilized their friends and 
companions at work, studying and living in the fight against the increase.

Reducing the rate of transportation by force from the streets is a moral victory of the
popular movement led by militant youth. Far from being virtual demonstrations, this 
reaction is the result of hard work of many comrades, which have contributed modestly our 
contribution.

Other fights by reducing the rate multiplied by Brazil while the conservative reaction 
formed by governments, the media and entrepreneurs are trying to legitimize repression and 
criminalization of social fighters with dozens of arrests during protests and lawsuits.
Employer class, the ruling authorities of municipalities and states, the media monopoly, 
all are coordinated in the same plane: criminalize social fighters, create scarecrows, 
discourage popular participation in the struggle for the right to the city.
We can not accept the political and judicial persecution of fellow fighters. Our efforts 
have to be firm and decided not to march back and defend our rights at this time of 
assembly, association and expression. Solidarity with the processed must be a word with
the force of a ton for the entire left combative.

Thus we reinforce our attitude, the agenda of public transport is not a police matter, the 
social question is urgent and necessary that accused can only be resolved by political 
decision. And to enforce their demands the people can not trust their interests to the 
bureaucratic power of conspiracies cabinet and decisions made behind closed doors between 
political elites and dominant economic groups. The grassroots democracy is a social 
mechanism that is in politics for meetings, marches and in the different forms of struggle 
and grassroots organization of popular sectors.

We are united in the defense of a model 100% public transportation, which settles to the 
profit of the bosses in the exploration of our rights, civil liberties access and mobility 
of all the people of the city. For anarchists the CAB, the public model is a framework for 
accumulating forces of change, advancing rights and obtain better services by default the 
control of private capital. Strive to empower the people and not settle in bureaucratic
structures of power that usurps the collective strength in public law, but in particular 
cause.

The Indian resistance on agribusiness and mega-projects.

Several demonstrations of indigenous peoples marked the first half of this year, among 
these, the lawful occupation of the plenary of the House of Representatives by about 300 
Indians, besides the many protests throughout the week that Brazil recorded the day of the 
international environment, June 5. There are over a hundred legislative proposals contrary 
to the rights of people pending before the House and Senate. Among them, we highlight the 
PEC 215. PEC mean, Proposed Amendment to the Constitution, can be presented by the 
President, or the Senate for more than half of the Legislative Assemblies and being 
approved, allows you to make changes in the Constitution. Along with the change of the 
forest code, this means more PEC 215 an attack from conservative caucus against the 
people, supported by parties such as the PMDB, PP, DEM, PSD, PR, PSDB, PBT, PPS and PDT. 
If implemented, the proposed amendment will give Congress the right and responsibility to 
demarcate, ratify and establish criteria for regulation of Indian lands and peoples 
originating activity that so far is the assignment FUNAI. Ie foxes will give full control 
of the coop because the Congress is strong presence caucus, who want to take Indian lands 
to turn them into estates in the service of profit rampant agribusiness.

Thus, the current configuration of the class struggle and capitalism in Brazil, which also 
affects indigenous peoples, can be understood as a model labeled in one of its aspects, by 
the power of agribusiness, based on monoculture export landowner, who to expand the family 
farm attacks, exploits and expels rural workers and steals the lands of indigenous peoples.

This model concentrates income, generates misery, violence and poverty in almost all 
regions where they are located. In the countryside and in the city slowly kills workers
who apply or consume foods poisoned with pesticides. There is also the increasing costs of 
basic foods (such as rice, beans and wheat) representing 70% of the country's consumption, 
but they occupy only 30% of arable land, due to the advance of monoculture.
Even with the uneven balance of power, indigenous peoples gave a demonstration of 
resistance and direct action, occupying the legislative house and postponing the vote on 
PEC shameful. The action of the Indians was much more effective for stopping a vote of 215 
PEC than inert "fight for hegemony" of leftist parliamentarians who opposed the project vote.

From south to north the country is our strength vigilant and militant solidarity to the
agenda of indigenous peoples. Since the processes of resistance in Aldeia Maracan? in Rio 
de Janeiro, the victorious struggle of Pitaguarys Cear? and support for mobilizations of 
the Guaran? and Kaingang in Rio Grande do Sul, we are shoulder to shoulder with the 
Indians in defense of territory and against the impacts Plan IIRSA.

Solidarity is more than the written word! Surround yourself with those who struggle 
solidarity!

With the advancement of the attacks of the ruling class (domestic and international) and 
its developments, will be even more frequent threats to indigenous peoples and to all 
those who are oppressed in the countryside and in the city. To proceed to organize and 
resist the mega events and the advance of agribusiness, is the accumulation of social need 
for self-organization of the working class and the oppressed in the countryside and the
city. We anarchists politically federated organizations that make up the CAB, we reaffirm 
our modest effort, strengthening grassroots organizations of workers on a project of 
federalism and popular power that does not have at the polls or in dispute apparatuses 
parliamentary your strategic horizon.

Not form a political organization to make intermediate bureaucratic social pressure, we do 
not seek recognition from the media and the bourgeois authorities as interlocutors. Our
policy aims to build a strong people. The direct action as a method of struggle and 
grassroots democracy as a factor of decisive participation of the subject in its demands 
are tools to grow the popular power from below. Our place is the creative impulse within 
the guidelines of the social movement, the development of ideological factors change 
combative, in building political capacity for union solidarity of the oppressed. The 
social protest must have their own perspectives, it is not the career ladder for election.
Task now is to surround solidarity comrades persecuted, not intimidating and steadfast in 
following our purposes, firmly claiming the legitimacy of our struggle and the methods we 
used. These commitments are first order to those who are involved in the struggles of 
everyday.

Coordination Brazilian Anarchist
June 2013


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