WORLD WORLDWIDE SOUTH AMERICA BRAZILIE - news journal UPDATE - (en) Brazil, OSL: "Out, Derrite!" Campaign (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Below we reproduce the call from collectives, movements and political

organizations regarding the "Out, Derrite!" campaign, this Saturday, in
São Paulo. ---- On Saturday, April 26, starting at 4 pm, we will hold a
roundtable discussion to launch and organize the campaign "Out, Derrite!
Tarcísio is an enemy of the people. Enough racism and death in the
outskirts of Brazil". We will present the manifesto, the basis of this
initiative, and also the "Self-defense manual: a survival manual in the
war of those above against those below. Our 'public security' made by
us!" Read the materials and participate! Check out the manifesto to see
who is already part of the campaign. It's time to kick Tarcísio's
henchman out

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Out with Derrite! Campaign

Out with Derrite! Tarcísio is an enemy of the people

Enough racism and deaths in the outskirts of Brazil

When a police officer throws a defenseless man off a bridge in the south
zone, or when he invades a wake for yet another person killed by the
police, like in Bauru, does our security improve? With almost 1 million
prisoners in the country, does simply incarcerating more people
represent a solution? We who signed this manifesto believe that this is
not the case and that there is something very wrong with the so-called
"public" security. It is a complex debate and we invite you to read it
to the end to understand our arguments.

In 2024, there was a 65% increase in lethality by the São Paulo police
compared to 2023. In other words, the PM and the Civil Police of the
governor and his henchman, the Secretary of Insecurity Guilherme
Derrite, killed more people. A recent example was the Operations Escudo
and Verão on the coast, with crimes, concealment and falsification
already proven. The GCM, which Ricardo Nunes now wants to transform into
the Municipal Police, also claimed more victims. There are even cases
involving the penal police. "I don't care", as Tarcísio said, summing up
what all the governors think.

Meanwhile, last year São Paulo broke a record for feminicides. The state
government, in fact, cut almost the entire budget allocated to combat
violence against women during the period. Thefts and robberies have
increased in peripheral areas. Soldiers from the Rota, Derrite's origins
and from the top of the Military Police, are caught working for
organized crime. Officers responsible for combating drug trafficking in
Cracolândia are discovered using the apparatus at their disposal to traffic.

In the capital, Nunes inaugurates the "prisômetro" as a marketing ploy.
Metropolitan civil guards in the city of São Paulo, increasingly
militarized, are investigated for forming militias. Orlando Morando,
Nunes' current Secretary of Insecurity, has a career marked by the
persecution of cultural groups of peripheral youth and Black Awareness
Day, in addition to mocking the deaths in the massacre in Paraisópolis.

For all these reasons, we affirm: there is no security for most of us,
but rather a racist and class war. In fact, the police are well trained
to wreak havoc in the favelas. If you have any doubts, pay attention to
the reports that victims' families tirelessly make throughout the
country: in Belém do Pará, the cases of Davi and Marcinho; in Rio, the
mother of four children, Cláudia Ferreira, and Johnatha in Manguinhos;
in Paraná, the cases of Willian, Anderbal, Kelvin, and Wender.

In São Paulo, there are cases such as that of four-year-old Ryan and his
father Leonel, killed in Santos by the police 9 months apart; of Matheus
Menezes, a young man whose neck was cut by a police lieutenant's gun; of
Manuela Carvalho, a teenager killed in a serious traffic collision
caused by a police chase; of Victória Manoelly, Luiz Fernando, Gabriel
Renan, Marco Aurélio, Igor Gabriel, Thiago, João Vitor, Renatinho,
Guilherme, Vinícius, and many others.

There has been something very wrong with "public" security for some time
now, as demonstrated by the Carandiru Massacre, the May 2006 Crimes, the
Osasco and Barueri Massacres, the DZ7 Dance Massacre in Paraisópolis,
and the deaths in the East and South Zones. The civil-military
dictatorship is over, but we live in a democracy of massacre, which rips
sons and daughters from working mothers. In fact, Domingos Jorge Velho,
responsible for murdering Zumbi dos Palmares, who fought to free us from
slavery, is on the coat of arms of the Military Police, thus showing the
true role of the police: to oppress and kill black, indigenous, poor,
working-class people and our youth... And it is this police force, which
kills children and adolescents, that the government wants to bring into
schools, through the militarization of education.

One of the biggest excuses ever invented to justify these actions is the
supposed "War on Drugs". Rivers of public resources, which could go to
social areas, are invested in a failed policy. In fact, after decades,
the result is that criminal capitalists profit more than ever and still
help save the legal economy with money laundering. Not to mention the
"disappearance" of drugs seized inside police stations. The only rule of
the rich system is to profit, no matter what or against whom.

The courts also claim victims all over Brazil. We know that sometimes
the Supreme Court can seem like a protector of the oppressed, defending
minimal things like keeping cameras filming continuously. But let's not
fool ourselves: the judicial system is just the other side of genocide.
So much so, for example, that less than 2% of police officers
investigated for crimes are convicted in São Paulo. Not to mention the
kind treatment given to playboys who kill with their luxury cars.

All governments are part of this war machine, including those of the PT.
The case of the state of Bahia leaves no doubt about this: it is the
champion in police lethality with the explicit support of Governor
Jerônimo Rodrigues, who recently once again defended the actions of the
Military Police in a massacre during Carnival. In turn, the Lula
government has regrettably allowed the militarization of security and
tried to cover the situation with measures that have questionable
effects, to say the least.

All of this leads us to affirm that the genocide of black, indigenous,
peripheral and working-class people is a state policy. To defeat it, it
is essential that we organize independently, without any strings
attached, to denounce the horror we have experienced and defend what is
right, to take care of each other and support each other, neighborhood
organizations, social movements, unions, and family groups. This is the
way to change this situation and defend our lives!

In this sense, we would like to invite you to launch a national campaign
for Derrite's dismissal. Not that his departure will solve all the
problems. But it is a fact that, at this moment, the repercussions of
police abuses give us a unique opportunity to talk to working people
about the genocide and, with a lot of mobilization, impose a defeat that
puts the racist war of those at the top against those at the bottom in
check nationwide.

Come join this fight! Participate in the launch of this manifesto and
the self-defense booklet on April 26 in São Paulo-SP, at CSP-Conlutas,
Rua Senador Feijó, 191, near Praça da Sé. Let's go!

Brasilândia Committee Our Lives Matter

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