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Coronavirus DATELINE SAO PAULO VIDEO

Dateline : São Paulo. E03

Brian Mier and Aline Piva discuss the latest situation surrounding the Novel Coronavirus pandemic in Brazil. [qpp]

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Coronavirus DATELINE SAO PAULO VIDEO

Dateline : São Paulo. E02

Brian Mier and Aline Piva discuss the latest situation surrounding the Novel Coronavirus pandemic in Brazil. [qpp]

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Coronavirus DATELINE SAO PAULO VIDEO

Dateline : São Paulo. E01

Brian Mier and Aline Piva discuss the latest situation surrounding the Novel Coronavirus pandemic in Brazil. [qpp]

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AUTHORITARIANISM DEMOCRACY LAVA JATO LAWFARE VIDEO

Killer Clowns: Bolsonaro accuses Greenwald of felony – can’t explain why

Right wing extremist President Jair Bolsonaro accused Glenn Greenwald of committing a felony but, in a scene captured on the Government’s TV Brasil, his Press Secretary, General Otávio Rego Barros, fails to explain what the crime committed was and, instead, tries to stare down the journalist who asks about it. By Brian Mier In a […]

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AGRARIAN REFORM DEMOCRACY LAVA JATO LAWFARE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS VIDEO

Video: MTST and MST unite behind Lula

On the day of former President Lula’s appeal hearing, which upheld a sentence that is widely considered to be politically motivated, leaders Gilmar Mouro of the MST landless rural workers movement, and Guilherme Boulos, of the MTST homeless workers movement and popular front Povo Sem Medo, delivered impassioned speeches in his defence to tens of thousands of assembled social movement militants […]

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DEMOCRACY FOREIGN POLICY LAVA JATO LAWFARE UNITED STATES VIDEO

Video: DOJ lends a hand in prosecuting Lula

Contributing editor Brian Mier interviewed for the Real News Network on the publicly admitted role of the United States in Brazil’s controversial Anti-Corruption Operation Lava Jato (Carwash) and the prosecution of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. [qpp]  

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DEMOCRACY HOUSING SOCIAL INCLUSION SOCIAL MOVEMENTS VIDEO

São Paulo: Rebel City

During illegitimate, corrupt president Michel Temer’s attempt to implement an unnecessary extreme austerity regime that plunged millions of people below the poverty line and caused the UN to warn that Brazil may return to the World Hunger map, one of the most under-covered stories is the organized left’s efforts to resist the state of exception. […]

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CULTURE UNDERSTANDING BRASIL VIDEO

The Three Kings

On January 6, 2017, the traditional Folia dos Reis festival was declared historic cultural patrimony by the Minas Gerais state government. According to their research, the city with the most number of Folia dos Reis is Uberaba, with 106 separate annual festivals. Folia dos Reis is an ostensibly Catholic festival that celebrates the Three Kings, […]

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AUTHORITARIANISM DEMOCRACY FASCISM SOCIAL MOVEMENTS VIDEO

[VIDEO] Repression of Anti-Coup Protests 31/8/2016

Military Police repression of Anti-Coup protest in São Paulo, 31/8/2016 [qpp]

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EDUCATION SÃO PAULO SOCIAL MOVEMENTS VIDEO

Documentary: We Rule The School

The State Government of São Paulo’s planned closure of almost 100 schools provoked a campaign of resistance from pupils in the form of occupations and street mobilisations. This film is their protest in their own words.