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Brazil Truth Commission Details Extent of Rape During Military Dictatorship

January 16, 2015 Danica Jorden 0

Brazil’s National Truth Commission (Commissão Nacional da Verdade, CNV) presented its final report on the history of the human rights violations committed by the military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985. Through its working group “The Dictatorship and Gender,” the CNV took testimony and detailed the use of rape and sexual violence as a weapon against those the dictatorship considered to be political and social activists or otherwise subversive.

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Torture Reports: Brazil and the United States Release Reports Documenting Systematic Human Rights Abuses

January 2, 2015 Kara Rochelle Martinez 0

One day after the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its Executive Summary of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program exposing a policy of torture applied in the War on Terror, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff unveiled her country’s investigatory National Truth Commission Report, identifying human rights atrocities committed in Brazil between 1946 and 1988. […]

Cultivating Climate Justice: Brazilian Workers Leading the Charge Toward Zero Waste

November 18, 2014 Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives and Other Worlds 0

The recycling workers of Brazil have long been a powerful force in protecting their communities and the climate. Now they are on the forefront of a nation-wide movement for zero waste. […]

Brazil’s Rousseff Re-elected Despite Anti-Workers’ Party Sentiment: What Now?

October 27, 2014 Sabrina Fernandes 0

The last polls before the second round of Brazilian elections indicated a victory for Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’ Party (PT). This is the tightest presidential race for the Workers’ Party in 12 years and the reasons for this are varied.

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Brazilian Elections: What Happens Next?

October 6, 2014 Sabrina Fernandes 0

While the radical left works to fix its own fragmentation, it must also consider what to do in relation to the final run-off between Rousseff (PT) and Neves (PSDB) at the end of the month. This has always been a delicate moment for those in opposition to the PT from a leftist standpoint, as strategic support and valid criticism have to be negotiated in order to deter support for the right-wing candidate.

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Brazil: Napalm in the Ribeira Valley

September 2, 2014 Anne Vigna, Luciano Onça, and Natalia Viana, Translated by Danica Jorden 0

“These bomb fragments confirm what has always been said, that there was a bombardment in an area this close to São Paulo, they bombarded indiscriminately, including against the local population,” says Ivan Seixas, coordinator of the State Truth Commission of the São Paulo Legislative Assembly. “For those of us recovering the truth, it’s very important to tell this story, as raw as it may be.”

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“World Cup For Who?” Photo Report From Outside the Stadiums

July 4, 2014 Andalusia Knoll 0

Protesting the World Cup: Brazilian favela residents, artists and activists make visible their take on the militarization of favelas and police use of “non-lethal” weapons, the death of stadium workers, the true costs of the Cup, and where the true priorities of the state should lie.

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Sporting Shock Doctrine: Dave Zirin on the World Cup, Olympics and Brazilian Democracy

June 11, 2014 Andalusia Knoll 0

In Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, The Olympics and the Struggle for Democracy, Dave Zirin peels back the colorful FIFA curtain of publicity that currently blankets sporting sites across the globe to reveal the repression, deaths, displacement and corruption that paved the way to the 2014 World Cup, and the the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics to follow.

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National Congress of Brazil’s Landless Movement: Reinvention in Motion

April 18, 2014 Raúl Zibechi 0

After three decades of struggle for agrarian reform, Brazil’s Landless Movement paused during its 6th Congress to evaluate its experience and reflect on the new reality. The goal: to change while changing themselves.

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Democracy and World Cup 2014: Brazil’s State of Emergency

February 19, 2014 Renata Bessi And Santiago Navarro F. 0

More than 10,000 police with military training are poised to counter any disturbance or social unrest which may occur before and during this year’s World Cup. On December 20, 2013, Brazil’s Defense Ministry published a manual entitled “How to Guarantee Law and Order.” It encourages using military action to ensure “public security.” It also lists individuals, groups, organizations, and movements considered “opposing forces.”

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