Paulista policing – how political?

Last Sunday’s (4 September) protest in favour of Diretas Ja! (general elections now) went better than expected with around 100,000 on the streets, before it was needlessly attacked by Military Police after the manifestation had finished. How political are the police’s actions? ‘Police tend to repress left-wing demonstrations’ is hardly a novel insight. So maybe the better question is ‘what do Continue reading Paulista policing – how political?

Repression of pro-democracy protests

My eyewitness account of police repression last night in São Paulo, originally posted at Brasil Wire. Photography is mine, with additional photo & video in a separate post. Pro-democracy protestors have demonstrated through the streets of São Paulo for four consecutive nights now. All have terminated with military police aggressively dispersing crowds numbering from the Continue reading Repression of pro-democracy protests