Brazil protest photos

[Bacchus4.0]

I was hoping our Workers Party friend would show up and provide some titillating pics but it hasn't happened yet so without further ado:

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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/03/14/article-urn:publicid:ap.org:0c2c81f94c984c708a8c874c80f447f5-38GQ2j1Ekn5115a30979649db12c-902_634x953.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/03/14/article-urn:publicid:ap.org:0c2c81f94c984c708a8c874c80f447f5-38GQ2j1Ekn5115a30979649dc6f6-586_634x422.jpg

[thereismore]

1. It's "further ado". Thanks for the photos, this is massive. Especially #3, holy fuck. nt

[Bacchus4.0]

2. thanks, corrected nt

[monicaangela]

3. Wow!

If only we could have this kind of interest in this country when our politicians do things like Bush and Cheney and others in his administration did. That is what the streets in this nation, throughout the country should have looked like.

[Bacchus4.0]

4. Americans are passive these days with some recent exceptions but tiny comparitively

Latin America has a pretty robust tradition of the street protest.

[monicaangela]

5. How many people are in that crowd?

Looks as though it could be more than 100,000. Do you have any idea what the count was?

[Bacchus4.0]

6. Here is some info on the crowd size for those protests

Police estimates from more than 150 cities compiled by news website G1 showed around 3 million Brazilians participated in the demonstrations. Some police estimates of previous protests have proved to be exaggerated.

Polling firm Datafolha estimated 500,000 demonstrators in Sao Paulo, the biggest rally in the city's history and more than twice the size of a major protest a year ago. The military police put the figure at 1.4 million at the height of the demonstration.

Government sources contacted by Reuters acknowledged the demonstrations were bigger than anti-government rallies in March 2015, which gathered as many as 1 million people.

In the skyscraper-lined Avenue Paulista in Sao Paulo, a sea of protesters wearing Brazil's yellow-and-green national colors chanted "Dilma out" and waved banners that read "Stop the corruption" while music blared from nearby trucks.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-rousseff-protests-idUSKCN0WF0IX

[Marksman_91]

7. But obviously this means that the US/CIA are simply paying more protesters to go out

At least, that's what our resident Marxists would say.

[Bacchus4.0]

11. Looks expensive given the rally size nt

[monicaangela]

8. Awesome!

I have copied that picture and I am going to have a poster made of it. Democracy and democratic participation...that is what it looks like. Thanks for the info Bacchus4.0

[Bacchus4.0]

9. Sure, I find it disappointing about Lula but it is what it is.

before these corruption allegations came out and Brazil was climbing, I always thought that Lula was a much better model to follow than Hugo "Donald Trump of Latin America".

[monicaangela]

10. Yes, Lula did a lot of good things while in office

However, it appears he allegedly did some things that are going to overshadow the good he did.

The request, made to a Sao Paulo court Thursday, with a ruling expected Monday, was dismissed by political and legal observers as weak, flawed and unlikely to lead to Lula's arrest, but nevertheless considerably increases the pressure on Lula and President Dilma Rousseff's beleaguered Workers' Party government.

The document filed by Sao Paulo state prosecutors accuses Lula of money laundering in relation to the ownership of a triplex apartment in the resort city of Guaraja, a charge Lula has denied on multiple occasions. The apartment is owned by OAS, one of the construction companies implicated in Operation Car Wash, a federal investigation into corruption in and around Petrobras, the partly state-owned oil and gas company.

The Car Wash investigation led to search warrants being carried out at Lula's home last Friday, at the Lula Institute and various other addresses. It also led to the ex-president's detention for questioning by federal police. Jose Crispiniano, a spokesman for Lula and for the institute, called Lula's detention for forced questioning illegal and alleged that the officers carrying out the search of the institute also illegally demanded the password to the organization's email system, and have since accessed and frozen unrelated email accounts.
http://www.latimes.com/world/brazil/la-fg-brazil-corruption-20160312-story.html

Until Lula is tried and found guilty, I have to continue to say allegedly, I continue to hope this is politics and that maybe he is innocent of the charges. I guess time will tell.