Professor Yolanda's example illuminates the night of the coup.

Dear friend and banker Leirton Leite, Fortaleza, Ceará

Your words to me on Facebook, in addition to supporting this fierce struggle taking place in Brazil, are holy wafers of communion for those who unite and refuse the division so dear to the coup plotters. Thank you, my brother!

People of good sense have known since very early on, on this night of the coup and terror, with dire consequences not only for Brazil but for all of Latin America, that we would live through days, months, and perhaps decades of defeat upon defeat. Those swallowed up by irresponsibility will awaken stunned by the evil they helped to implant through their inaction and contempt for the people.

What to do with so many trampled rights, with lost jobs, with closed and bankrupt companies, with the sadness that pervades our society and our country, so illuminated by the sun sung about in our national anthem?

I've noticed that some people sink into depression. Others into alcoholism. Others, sadly, even end their lives through suicide, as I've seen here in the neighborhood where I live in Goiânia. Others resort to violence in search of bread for their children who cry from hunger.

What are some minimally healthy paths to follow?

Apathy, inaction, and alienation will not pull us out of the abyss that the coup plotters have dug for our country!

I see some, thankfully.

One of the paths, the most prophetic one, is that of well-founded, thoughtful, awareness-raising, and serious denunciations, with the aim of illuminating reality and the actions to be taken. On this path, there is no place for the "goody-two-shoes" attitude of those who think everything is fine, that everything works well, that there is no coup; that churchgoers and "educated" people shouldn't criticize others, leaving God to judge them.

One of the courageous denunciations comes from the experience, awareness, respectability, and seriousness of the nearly eighty-year-old jurist Bandeira de Mello. Our exemplary professor denounces the perverse association between the judiciary, the political war of the coup, and the persecution without ethical and political justification against former president Lula (here).

The dean of journalists, Janio de Freitas, joins the denunciations of the coup by exposing that this excrescence is the greatest mark of hypocrisy in our history. The commander and figurehead of the dirty and coup-plotting impeachment is the corrupt and investigated senator from Minas Gerais, the cynical Antonio Anastasia who, in his report, a veritable pile of garbage, disregarded the truth, science, and the testimonies that showed in unimpeachable statements given in the Senate's Inquiry Commission, which clearly indicated that President Dilma did not commit any crime of responsibility. We are living through the spectacle of horror with shameless senators, paid with public money and sponsored by conservative businessmen and oil corporations to humiliate our country and destroy our young and suffering democracy (read more).

As you can see here, Senator Roberto Requião, from the Senate floor, joined his voice against the disaster that is the interim and traitorous Michel Temer.

Finally, the accusations against the coup, which is already showing criminal signs of being against the people and against Brazil, are numerous. Countless others will arise both inside and outside Brazil. We must listen to them, consider each one, and choose the best stance to take in this tragic situation.

Those who have converted, freeing themselves from the ranks of the crazy and ignorant Marys, always going along without questioning anything, totally stupid and naive, ask, like the great retired Professor, at almost 81 years old: "what can we do?"

And she did, and continues to do so. In a universe of so many activities, Professor Yolanda chose one based on a text that shook her conscience due to its level of denunciation against the dismantling of our country. After reading here a well-founded denunciation that the pre-salt oil reserves are already being blatantly handed over to multinational corporations in the sector—so much so that the oil workers nicknamed the traitorous interim governor MisShel—Yolanda had no doubts. She printed hundreds of pages and distributed them at the demonstration on July 31st in Uruguaiana. Later, in Barão do Rio Branco Square, she was the most applauded and honored speaker, a testament to her authority as an emancipated and autonomous woman who owes nothing to anyone, not even to the cowardice of those who remain silent.

Little? Not at all. This is an example for all of us. Those who are aware don't just pray, jump around asking God to do what is our duty to do, or get drunk like the rabbi in the movie The Man from Kiev, but they fight collectively and united!

Two other bold actions confront the coup that insists on dragging us towards the abyss. The labor unions and social movements are calling on workers and the people to protest against the coup this Friday at the opening ceremony of the Olympics, July 5th, exposing to the world the risks that threaten democracy. They are also calling for demonstrations on August 9th in all Brazilian cities against the spurious impeachment process.

It is a fact that we all must take a stand. Fortunately, those who, like a herd, marched after the alfalfa that the media served them, enthralled by false and slanderous news with the perverse objective of destroying people's images and trivializing democracy, with serious consequences for the health of our rights, are dwindling.

It's time for us to rebel, to mobilize, to overthrow this coup before it's too late.

Critical yet fraternal embraces in the struggle for social justice and peace.