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INFO 4. PROTEST IS NOT A CRIME FREE TO ERIC (pt) [machine translation]
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" [...] I am truly free only when all human beings around me, men and women, are equally 
free [...] only the freedom of others makes me truly free [...] "Mikhail Bakunin ---- We, 
the Libertarian Resistance Organization [ORL], member of the Brazilian Anarchist 
Coordination [CAB], stand and cry for freedom of the student Eric, trapped in the 
manifestation of last Friday, July 4. This arrest was just another attempt to silence the 
combative social movements Fortaleza and silence the cry that comes from the streets. ---- 
The demonstration on 4th was pulled against the injustices of the canopy, but also 
encompassed other issues, such as the free pass. The walk began hours before the game 
between Brazil vs Colombia and had a final destination the vicinity of Castellan Stadium. 
The armed wing of the State (cotizan) forced the end of the act holding more than 30 
militants. A bus was called the PM to take protesters to the police station, which was the 
system down, and because of that, Comp @ s were released, the first being teenagers and 
then adults. But Eric ended up getting unjustly imprisoned, without bail, accused of 
property damage "public" contempt of authority and a supporter of the status of the article.

The state is systematic violence against those who stand against this repressive, 
patriarchal, unfair and unequal system. As soon as those oppressed who are standing in the 
fight against the current regime will be seen as a threat to (dis) political and economic 
order established by the State and Capital. Thus, the arrest of Eric is configured as a 
political prison, as well as many others who were arbitrarily made in recent months.

Since June 2013 were several raids without warrants and several were arrested / the 
politicians. The crackdown a year down here begins with the invasion at the headquarters 
of Gaucha Anarchist Federation (FAG) in Porto Alegre, but precisely on June 20, 2013. 
Agents federal police raided and seized without a warrant various advertising materials of 
political organization. In the second half of 2013, a mark that stood in the 
demonstrations was the disproportionate repression, a heavily armed in the streets to stop 
any form of protest apparatus.

The federal government after June 2013 decided to equip the police and military forces to 
contain any form of manifestation during the FIFA World Cup. Parallel to this, various 
search and seizure warrants were issued by the legal sphere / State.

In early 2014 the combative social movements in major Brazilian cities, especially in the 
cities which hosted the Cup games, started pulling acts against holding the crown. 
Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre and other cities, the flames reached 
the street mobilizations, which had as its central theme: canopy, removals, public 
transportation and so on.

Another point that mobilized demonstrations in 2014 was the fare and marketing issues 
surrounding the design of public transport, such as: the highest value of the ticket, the 
fare increase in certain cities and transport mafia.

On January 22, 2014 the ongoing fight against the mafia of concessions and the 
implementation of zero tariff in Joinville gained a new page three militants encampavam 
their struggles were arrested after returning from a demonstration. Of the three 
militants, two were MPL [Joinville] and also integrated the Anarchist Collective Black 
Flag [CABN]. The other militant belonged to the front of the struggle for public 
transport. The militants have been called for a first hearing and waiting to be summoned 
to a second stage in the legal sphere.

The Front for the Struggle for Public Transport Goi?nia was also strongly attacked by the 
repressive organs of the state. The struggle for a truly public transportation in Goi?nia 
gained momentum in May with strong manifestations, peripheral youth and taking forward the 
fight as the protagonists of the mobilizations against the fare increase, from R $ 2.70 to 
R $ 2.80. Monopolies of public transport with your lobby with the state pushed for a 
police investigation was initiated and emergently were decreed remand for several 
protesters who were struggling. Three militants were arrested on May 23, just days after 
being released.

The most emblematic case is that of homeless Rafael Braga of Rio de Janeiro, who was 
arrested during a demonstration without any real evidence against him. In Rio, besides the 
arrest of Rafael, the community had private Tide of freedom. State terrorism, which 
surrounded and stormed the complex tide with the clear desire to hold onto their territory 
the poor and the black tide, part of the "legacy" of the Cup, which sought and is seeking 
to control the oppressed classes before and during the FIFA Cup. Furthermore, the canopy 
also left thousands of families removed 14 dead in works Cup, rivers of money with high 
profitability for FIFA and urban immobility that favors the profit of the contractors.

In Fortaleza, the strong and intense events of April and May due to the blocking of 
student identification cards led hundreds of young people to the streets. The 
mobilizations added high school students, youth and peripheral movements fighting for a 
free pass. The battles between the popular pressure and the repressive forces (municipal 
police, riot and civil police of PM) in Fortaleza created a real state of exception and 
site in this context and the disproportion between the antagonistic subject (combative 
social movements versus repression) led the last three months over one hundred and twenty 
militants police stations of the city to sign TCO (circumstantial term occurrence). 
Including activists of Otolaryngology, the MPL (Fortaleza), the Anti-Capitalist Assembly, 
and other independent among others, have signed and are slowly being summoned to appear in 
criminal court or certain precincts of the city.

Many activists who have been arrested or are being investigated have been subpoenaed to 
testify. But the case is different Eric, the student continues arrested by repression, 
arrested by the criminalization of protest and oppressed classes. The prison mate is a 
blow to all of those who fight, because all those who seek social change, will soon be 
hunted down and prosecuted by state terror. Do not forget, the arrest of Eric is a 
political prison! The way to express their dissatisfaction with the political status quo 
was protesting and PROTEST IS NOT CRIME!

Freedom for ERIC and all political prisoners!

By the end of the military police!

Protesting is not a crime!

Libertarian Resistance Organization [ORL / CAB] - 07/07/2014