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[Cupcake-chan]

http://www.bbc.co.uk...merica-22946736

 

Today I had the honor to be a part of one of the biggest protests in Brazilian history. The overall reason to said protests is due to the rise of the bus fare from R$2,75 to R$2,95. Now, I know that 20 cents isn't anything at all, but due to the inflation rising beyond the charts, we Brazilians have decided to react.

Here in Rio de Janeiro, today (June 17th, 2013) 100k people gathered at the city center to protest. Most of said people were uni students, including myself.

 

The older generations say that we're lazy. 

They're wrong.

 

 

 

Edited by Cupcake-chan, 18 June 2013 - 12:33 AM.

[Pocky-chan]

Son of a gun.

 

That's like a megalithic amount of people protesting, that's incredibly cool and moving to see so many people banding together over bus fares. I'm not even joking here, there's like some sort of poetic justice that its the commodities like bus fares or smaller things in life that somehow speakers bigger volumes because people are having enough of this economic bullsh*t.

 

You go people of Brazil!

[K9ofChaos]

Well that's certainly not a lazy generation right there. 

 

 

But seriously, it's good to see active protesting no matter where it may be. Though I'm not sure if this will actually change things or just fall on the deaf ears of politicians. 

[Sakamaki Izayoi]

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.

Edited by Dαrkrєrsŧ, 18 June 2013 - 10:35 PM.

[Cupcake-chan]

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.

[Weltall]

The same is happening in Turkey altough the premise looks different it's the same : corrupt government. Well good luck to the brazilians I just hope the protests will remain non violent otherwise it will give more ammo to the government to send the police or even the army if there's no other choice. I hope I will see the day when the same happens in Europe, but who am I kidding we are day too complacent and docile to oppose the psychos who control our governments.

[Cupcake-chan]

Here's some more info on the subject.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk...merica-22981809

[Kamina-Yoshi]

I still find it ironic that people use Guy Fawkes' masks in their protests/actions for "freedom", considering Guy Fawkes was a reactionary Roman Catholic that tried to bomb the democratic institution of Britain (namely Parliament) to establish a Catholic theocratic absolutist state (without freedom of press, freedom of assembly, freedom of protest, et cetera). So, in essence, it'd be the equivalent of wearing a Klan mask at a NAACP meeting. Sorry, but this has been on my mind for years, since those children at Anonymous  showed up and made the Guy Fawkes face a faux-pas for protesting (along with the silly V for Vendetta story/movie).

 

Other than that, you go guys; bus-fare where I am is 1.25 for students.

[Cupcake-chan]

We've managed to lower the bus fares, but the manifestation continue to happen. Now there have recently been some violence and vandalizing of public monuments, that's totally uncalled for. I'm actually disappointed that they're giving the protests a bad reputation, even if they are the minority. There've been rumors that the mayor of Rio is paying these people to trash things. Even if they are rumors, I wouldn't put it past the mayor. 

BTW, yesterday there was a protest in Rio that gathered over 300k people.

Edited by Cupcake-chan, 21 June 2013 - 11:05 PM.