I also live in Brazil but for me i see that those protests are not right, not because of 20 cents or whatever becasue it took greater proportions to a point that now people demands more health care, education and public security, there are a lot of people there but there's no coletive thinking most of the people are there but with different demands on their heads, the problem is the politician and how the cash is administrated but few people has the idea of how the system work, example, they demand education but blame the president Dilma Rouseff and not their respective state governors which are responsible for the educational system and so on...
I would gladly join the protests but when i saw people carrying flag from parties like PSOL, PSTU and other parties i decided to not join.
It's the R$0,20 that started the whole process, the last straw. Now the government has been forced to look at what the people want. The majority of the protesters are non violent, and only the idiots that really have no life turn the protests violent. Hell, they've already lowered the price of the bus fare in many of the cities, including Rio and São Paulo, which, if anything, is progress.
Now the flags that people carry to support their political parties are frowned upon, and most of the protestants get rid of said flags on spot.
The problem is the government. Not the president, governors, or mayors. The problem is the mediocre infrastructure that's been holding us at a stand still.
And it's happening all over the world, in various cities, it's not just in Brazil.
Edited by Cupcake-chan, 20 June 2013 - 01:52 AM.