News & events

26-01-2015

Focus Brazil


Three statements on Brazil...

Thousands took the streets in Sao Paulo, Brazil in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protests in the US. Today’s event in Sao Paulo was to highlight the systemic police violence, the high rate of murders and the judicial injustices suffered when these crimes against black communities go unpunished. Full statement here.

Cleomar, Leader of Poor Peasants League in Northern Minas and Bahia is killed in ambush. On Wednesday, the peasant Cleomar, coordinator of Liga dos Camponeses Pobres do Norte de Minas e Bahia (Poor Peasants League of Northern Minas and Bahia) was ambushed and killed in Pedra Maria da Cruz, near the Área Revolucionário Unidos com Deus Venceremos, where he lived, worked and struggled with his comrades. Full statement here.

An international solidarity campaign has been developed in several countries, for release of Igor Mendes and others political prisoners, in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. Full statement here.