Please guys, help us spreading this message!
OKAY AS SOMEONE WHO IS FROM RIO DE JANEIRO, PLEASE SPREAD THIS AROUND
YEAH, IM BRAZILIAN I CAN ASSURE YOU. DONT COME TO BRASIL FOR FUCKS SAKE DONT DO IT
seriously though my city will host the first game and we’re about to face water rationing
Just saw the commercial on Discovery channel about their documentary covering the construction of the stadium. Wonder if they will cover all of this, too (probably not).
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These are only a few photos of what’s happening in Brazil. We will not tolerate power abuse. We will change. The media shut down 3g signals around the conflict areas, along with radio signals. The TV is only covering the parts that stain the people’s reputation, the public. The TV’s being puppeteered by FIFA and big shot politicians. Don’t come to Brazil. Don’t support FIFA. We don’t need world cups, and we won’t have. The revolution will not be televised. Please signal boost this for the world to see what’s going on.
UPDATE: Our president, Dilma Rousseff, is threatening to shut down internet in the whole country, due to (but not only) recently getting booed by the whole stadium (60k people more or less) while declaring open the confederations cup. This is not okay. This is untolerable. We live in a democracy. We want our rights. Again, please, Signal boost this.
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So, to all of you who follow me and who are not from Brazil, you should read this, and please reblog, if you can.
These are some photos of what is happening to our country today. São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are facing protest all over the cities. To fight for their rights. Our country is living a hidden dictatorship. The protests started because the bus fee raised 20 brazilian cents. Which doesn’t seem that much, but you all should know that millions of brazilians live with a monthly income of no more than 700 brazilian reais (something like 350 american dollars). Some people live and raise families with that money. Monthly. To these people, $0,20 for each bus means a lot.
But the thing is: what initially was intended to be a protest against the bus fee turned into a protest against the dictatorial government. A government that every year, steals millions of dollars of their people, in their own benefit. A government so corrupt, the population got used to it, and make jokes about it. In this country, a school teacher has a yearly income of $8400. The governors, on the other side, earn, for the same time, about $300.000. To work less. And they don’t even show up to work. And besides that salary, they steal.
And now, people are going to the streets. And the response is photographed. The government is brutally attacking everyone. I mean everyone. Protesters, pedestrians, reporters, photographers. Everyone. For no reason. They just attack. And bomb. And hurt.
The media is absolutely corrupted. The brazilian media makes it look like a violent act, that has to be fought with equal violence. That is a lie. 15 thousand people are going to the streets of Sao Paulo with no guns, no fire, no weapons. And they are being hurt, persecuted, and arrested. Some of them have to pay bail fees up to $20.000.
If you came all the way down here, please, reblog this. Help making the world know what is really going on here. This country, this beautiful country, with beautiful beaches, and women, and music, is now screaming in protest. This is the country in which the World Cup will be in 2014. A country that worries about the World Cup much more than it worries about the welfare of its citizens.
It’s sad being here. But we’re fighting.
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