Inside the MNLM Squatters Movement
By Brian Mier. When the Brazilian Military Dictatorship ended in 1985, citizens began a nation wide campaign to petition for people’s amendments to the …
Guardian Criminalizes the Urban Poor in Rockefeller-Sponsored Series on São Paulo
The Guardian kicked off a week of coverage about São Paulo today, as part of its Rockefeller Foundation sponsored “Cities” Series. Although part of …
Capital’s class war in Brazil: An interview with Brian Mier
An interview with Brasil Wire editor Brian Mier. In the following interview, which first appeared on the Chicago radio program This is Hell on …
Radical Reform and the Right to the Brazilian City
The Rise, Success and Decline of the PT Party’s Virtuous Cycle Model of Urban Governance. By Brian Mier. In 1964, the US helped overthrow …
MST and the Fight to Change the Brazilian Power Structure: An interview with Gilmar Mauro
By Brasil Wire Contributing Editor Brian Mier. During the 1960s, legend has it that governor José Sarney sat …
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 …
Joao Pedro Stedile: After Temer falls, we need to stay on the streets
By Joana Tavares / Brasil de Fato. May 18, 2017. Joao Pedro Stedile, leader of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) and of the …
Diretas Já: Brasil’s political rupture and the left’s opportunity
Alfredo Saad-Filho 23 May 2017. Originally published at OpenDemocracy. “Out with Temer – direct elections now!”. Amid meltdown in Brazil, the left calls for democracy, while …
This is Hell Radio: Working class united in Brasilia
Chuck Mertz: Remember all the reporting and media coverage being given to the protests against the alleged corruption of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff that …
Brasilia 24/5: A View from the Ground
by Brian Mier. On the night of May 23, I joined a group of activists from the Central de Movimentos Populares (CMP) social movement …