File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0004, message 674


From: "Daniel Marley" <bixmarley-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: april 22
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:06:56 VUT


Hey folks,

Festivals to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Brazil as the country the 
Western World knows so well have been disrupted by several trouble-makers. 
And the police didn’t aggress anyone, they just peacefully ended protests. 
Yeah, right. Here are some headlines I wanna share with you guys:

Folha de S. Paulo “Conflicts on the celebration of the 5000 years”
Estado de S. Paulo “Over 100 arrested during the party”

Official (police) report: 4.000 protesters were deterred from going to Porto 
Seguro (the place the first Portuguese arrived here) to manifestations. 141 
people were arrested, including (mainly) Sem-Terra (members of the most 
important movement which fights for land reform) and Native-American 
representatives.

Newspaper repor: The main conflict involved around one thousand people from 
the Black Movement and NGO Brasil Outros 500, punks, Sem-Terra militants and 
200 cops. The second biggest conflict had at one side 1000 protesters and on 
the other na equal number of cops (!).



As I see the situation, government repression is the best way to speed up 
the process of popular political engagement, and if the media helps 
(avoiding biased comments would be a great advance) we can really change 
something. Any thought are welcome.

Daniel




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