Dear foreign friends. Please, spread the word about the Rio de Janeiro / São Paulo / Brazil conflicts and state abuse. Below you will find some videos and text that shows and explains what’s happening.
What and why is this about and why spread the word.
One example of the abuses
A playslist with the above videos and other ones
I will be editing this playlist with more videos in the future.
Please, ask your brazilian friends about it, use google translate on all the photos and links you see on my Twitter or Facebook Profile and your brazilian friends profiles to get a little bit of knowledge of the situation besides what mainstream media tell and spread the world and raise awareness. Our economy and political power is deeply influenced by foreign powers and your word can make difference.
Below you find a english transcription, taken from the subtitles of the first video.
Thanks.
“As of June 10th, Brazilian protesters in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo have carried out rallies, in protest of the rise in bus fare, which went up by 20 cents. Such protests have continued until today, at the time of the recording of this video, on June 14th. You may not have heard of this; that with Turkey and Syria´s uprising, it is difficult to keep track with everything that goes on in the world. And eventually, international news outlets might report on what is happening down here. They might do so the same way the national media is doing it now: They might portray the protesters as criminal and vandals and delinquents. It is of extreme importance that the truth reaches you before they do.
The recent uprising that is spurring in Brazil is not an act of unwarranted violence, and it is not gratuitous vandalism. It is the result of what happens when a society is forced to put up with the ludicrous, nonsensical laws that are created only to benefit the lawmakers themselves. And which results in a wealth and social gap so outrageous,it would be cause for hilarity if it weren´t true.
Some of the policies proposed and approved by our representatives are as follows: –and I assure you; as incredible as they may appear, I am not making them up. They are real, and they are being exercised right now.
- Politicians have awarded themselves the privilege of receiving up to three extra months of salaries. So after resuming their year´s pay in their December salary, they are paid thrice more, as if their year had three extra months. And their salary, by the way, is about R$17,000.00 per month, while minimum wage stands at R$600.00
- Politicians have also awarded themselves privileges for paid expenses such as air tickets, ranging from ten to twenty-two thousand Reais. Government-provided housing expenses, to the tune of three to four thousand Reais; Private phone expenses, for up to a thousand Reais per month, as well as an amount between sixty to eighty-two thousand reais of spending money, which they then can use in order to pay off whomever they claim is necessary for them to conduct their daily functions. Politicians sometimes take advantage of this, by hiring friends and relatives for completely made up positions, professions that don´t exist, just so that they can give them free money for nothing.
- And once again, while all these things are happening, minimum wage stands at around six hundred reais.
Politicians couldn´t care less about their constituents down here. And this complete disregard for their constituents has resulted in some deplorable situations in health and safety and education. It´s common to have hospitals that look like war zones, with patients lying about, in the hallways instead of in a gurney. Or to have a patient, who is critical condition, but is told by the hospital staff to which he goes, that the hospital is full, and then be given the order, to ride, alone,by bus, public transportation, to another one.
Here, the country that brags about how well-prepared and how advanced it is to host the World Cup, has such deplorable and horrible and sad education conditions, that people have just given up on it.
Keeping in mind that a politician here earns seventeen thousand Reais, can you imagine how much the salary of a teacher would be?Eight hundred.Imagine a person who went to college to exert a profession as important as teaching a generation of children to lead the country into the future, having to only allow herself two hundred Reais–or rather, two hundred bucks, from your country– per week to feed her family. That´s how it is down here. And yet the Brazilian capitol turns a cold shoulder to all this.
While this disgraceful fact still persists in occur, they are building right now, or have concluded building, by the time you watch this video, the Mané Garrincha; the most expensive soccer stadium to ever host a World Cup game, at the tune of 1.2 billion Reais. One point two billion, while people starve in slums and die in hospital corridors. Also, in the subject, in preparing for the important event of the World Cup and the Olympics, poor people that live around the areas that are being prepared to host the soccer games of the World Cup and the Olympics, have been evicted from their homes, in a near Gestapo-esque fashion, the police have marked the front door of their homes, preparing them to run over by a bulldozer the next day, and any resident that tries to stand their ground and stay home is being met with crowd dispersion/evasion techniques, including gunfire,with total disregard for women and children.
And even now, as we speak, a bill is being discussed, that will render the Supremo Tribunal Federal, the government body that is responsible for keeping politicians in check, completely useless. If this law is accepted, then politicians will run free, and be able to do whatever they wish to, without anyone to check on them.
This is absolutely unacceptable. It has gone on for too long, and people are sick of it. Only this time, something substantial can be done. And that is where you come in. In 2014, Brazil will host the World Cup. 2016, the Olympics. The two most prestigious and renowned athletic events in the world. Brazil cannot afford to have its reputation smeared now. If there is a worldwide outlash against the things that are happening here, the people in control will be forced to do something about it. Under the threat of a besmirched reputation, and international pressure, Brazil will be forced to change.
We´re not asking you to do too much; just please, post something about the facts we have just told you in your Facebook wall and Twitter feed. Also, if you want to research in the internet to see if what I´m saying is true, go ahead and do so. As well as the recent riots that are happening in Brazil, in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, you can research them as well and talk about them. Write about them in your Facebook Wall and your Twitter feed, along with the hashtag #changebrazil Then tell your friends about this video, share it, continue sharing it on, on Facebook, your Facebook wall and the Twitter feed. In fact, I would like to beckon every vlogger that exists in Brazil, that may see this video, and by extension, every vlogger in the world that sees this video, to talk about these issues. You don´t have to talk about this video in particular, or me, or the channel, if you research whichever it is, but please, make some noise about what is going on down here. If you feel the need to spread the hashtag below, feel free; it would be awesome, but if not, whatever. Just please, make some noise. Something great might be happening down here now. Please don´t make it so that we don´t let this moment pass us by.
The people are always more powerful than the government chosen to preside over them. Always.
Thank you, and please help us.”
