Help us! Brazil needs your help!
Hello to all my dreadhead friends here on dreadlockssite!
I'm making this blog post because there are a lot of protests going on Brazil, especially here on So Paulo against the increase of bus fare. The increase of 0.10 dollar cents is a lot for us, because most of us receives just an minimum wage of something like $300.
Now the worker who receives the minimum wage have to pay at least 20% of its wage just to go to work and go back to home 5 days a week, and this is really an absurd, because everything is expensive here, with a minimum wage is nearly impossible to rent a house here to live alone [except if you go to the slums/favella's where are governed by criminal organizations].
Now the poor have to skip one meal of the day just to pay the fare to go to work! The local media are calling us as "vandals" and "rioters". The fare increased and the public transportation is still poor like never before, there are no improvements, nothing is right here!
Last thursday we have an big protest on the center of So Paulo, and police were firing rubber bullets and tear gas bombs without being attacked. There was an time that me and my friend wanted to go home, we tried to talk to police, but they threw 2 tear gas grenades on us, i almost fell out on the ground with lack of oxygen... On Monday the protests will continue and we expect at least 10.000 of people on the streets.
So to all my friends, i don't know how the press on your countries are telling about what is happening here on Brazil... but... if you can share on twitter/facebook or other networks this video, it will be very helpful, please spread the truth, because we will have an fifa world cup here soon, and the government is trying to sell an fake image of Brazil to the foreign people that will come here to watch the games
Here is the video [the audio is on english]:
Another update...
We aren't in good times... A lot of people [and myself too] are thinking that we are on the verge of an military coup and maybe a civil war...
I'll pray for the best.
Thanks everyone! Just to say... here on So Paulo, and Rio, we won! The government revoked the increase of the bus ticket!
But the protests will continue, because we don't want the confederation cup and the fifa world cup here... We need hospitals, schools and the end of corruption.
thanks all for the support!
Today we'll stage the biggest protesthere in So Paulo and other cities... And the protests won't stop until all our demands will be met!
For the first time ever i'm really proud of being brazilian... The youth is going to the streets... And the other citizens are showing us support... we have to win, we will win!
thanks all for the support!
Today we'll stage the biggest protesthere in So Paulo and other cities... And the protests won't stop until all our demands will be met!
For the first time ever i'm really proud of being brazilian... The youth is going to the streets... And the other citizens are showing us support... we have to win, we will win!
The "news" in America is mostly syndicated and owned by the complexes.
Pisses me off how they down play things like this, and make mundane bullshit seem so important. It's basic mind control though, and considering where the power lies, it shouldn't surprise me.
plz every1 share this on twitter fb everywhere
!!! Thanks for the heads up