A little too late?
Naomi Klein, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky, Susan Sarandon, Arundhati Roy, and 17 other human rights activists, intellectuals, and public figures on Wednesday sent a letter to the Brazilian government condemning the impeachment of the country’s President Dilma Rousseff, and demanding that Brazil’s senate “respect the October 2014 electoral process which over 100 million people took part in.”
Source: Naomi Klein, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky, Others Condemn ‘Coup’ in Brazil
guyaneseonline said:
Reblogged this on Guyanese Online.
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Rosaliene Bacchus said:
Thanks for the re-blog, Cyril. Have a sunshine weekend 🙂
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stuartbramhall said:
It really makes you wonder why they waited so long – imagine all the publicity they could have got during the Olympics.
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Rosaliene Bacchus said:
Dr. Bramhall, not the mention the run-up to the Olympics 😦
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katharineotto said:
Better late than never. While I’m not familiar with details of this coup, the pattern looks familiar. Small groups funded by outside investors work from within to sabotage attempts to make government more responsive to the people. Dilma Rousseff is a scapegoat, primarily because she is popular. At least this is my read on it.
On the plus side, the contest is raising international awareness, because this could happen anywhere. I’m of the “embarrass them into behaving” persuasion, so commend the respected social justice spokespersons for taking a decisive stand.
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Rosaliene Bacchus said:
Tomorrow, we’ll have the outcome of her impeachment trial. Her enemies on the far right are expected to succeed.
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katharineotto said:
So sad. Corruption rules. What will happen to her if they win?
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Rosaliene Bacchus said:
The real question is what will happen to the Brazilian people who have benefited from the social programs of her government. Brazil is now open to corporate grab, national and international.
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katharineotto said:
They’ve been setting Brazil up for years, ever since it was pegged as “an emerging economy.” Investors rushed in, and Brazil took on too much debt, like so many other naive (and corrupt?) governments. I even wonder if the Olympics was a trick to further indebt Brazil for infrastructure.
“Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” explains how it works. The point is to trick the country into un-repayable debt so that the governments will be obligated to US for military bases, airports, power stations. All must be done with US contractors. I don’t know about Brazil, but author Perkins specifically mentions Ecuador.
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Rosaliene Bacchus said:
For sure, big money corporations and investors don’t wait for favorable conditions to emerge. They create them.
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tosca1953 said:
These are longtime activists and great people – unfortunately, their actions are rarely noted, let alone highlighted. But we have to continue —
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Rosaliene Bacchus said:
I agree, Angela. The struggle goes on.
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