By Fernando horta. There is no government in the World that admits that it has political prisoners. They all are – and were – arrested for “crimes” or “threats” and given sentences that the governments say are the result of a “due process” in which all of the “institutions are functioning”. It has been this […]
Protests and vigils have been taking place across Brasil and in front of embassies worldwide demanding freedom for ex-President Lula. On the morning of April 11th, groups of social movement and union activists shut down highways with burning tires across Brasil, as crowds mobilized for protests in cities across the country and around the world […]
On Saturday night a video started circulating around the social media of an airplane control panel with on-board conversation in which one of the passengers, presumably a Federal Police agent, threatened to “throw this garbage out the window” and to “get rid of him and never come back”. Today the Brazilian Airforce confirmed that the conversation […]
Police fire rubber bullets at unarmed protesters in Curitiba. At least 10 injured. According to protesters, the violent acts committed by the Paraná Military Police started after an unidentified man shook the entrance gate of the Federal Police building. Curitiba. Thousands of workers who came to show solidarity with Ex-President Lula were attacked with “moral […]
“In 1979, this union staged one of the most extraordinary strikes and we got a deal with the auto industry that was maybe the best we could get. I had a factory committee with 300 workers. The deal was good and I decided to take the deal to a vote in a union meeting. I […]
Facing politically-motivated imprisonment, former President and leading 2018 candidate, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, shared this message to Brazil. My Friends, I’ve thought a lot about the paths that our lives take. The future, after all, does not seem to be such a distant place, does it? It’s not that my life has been easy… Far from […]
Translated by Brasil Wire. Bulletin #1 – People’s Committee in defense of Lula and Democracy Direct from São Bernardo do Campo / São Paulo/ Brazil 6/4/2018 – 12 PM 1. Lula spent the night at the Metal Workers Union Headquarters surrounded by young and old school workers from ABC, cradle of the new trade union […]
Six facts currently being censored through omission in the Northern media about Lula’s Supreme Court Judgement. by Brian Mier 1) The issue at stake is not related to a “battle against corruption” but whether the Supreme Court will uphold the 1988 Constitution, which stipulates that the accused have the right to play out their appeals processes […]
Official statement from PT (Workers Party). Translated by Brasil Wire. TV Globo is scandalously and unethically pressuring the Supreme Court to deny ex-president Lula’s constitutionally guaranteed right to defend himself in liberty against illegal and unjust accusations, with no proven crime or evidence, made by Sergio Moro and aggravated by a per-arranged decision in the […]
Tuesday, April 3. On the night before the habeas corpus judgment that could guarantee freedom for ex-president Lula, the anchorman and editor of Brazil’s most popular news program, William Bonner, ended Jornal Nacional with a story delivered in a tone of a threat to the Supreme Court Ministers. In a somber voice, he read two […]