Movement calls for meeting in defense of 'Viomundo'
Record TV journalist Luiz Carlos Azenha announced the end of his blog after being ordered to pay R$ 30 in damages to Globo director Ali Kamel; an event is scheduled for next Tuesday in São Paulo, and proposes, in addition to raising money to pay the debt, contacting parliamentarians to denounce Globo's persecution of the blogosphere.
247, with Current Brazil Network - A movement that emerged this Saturday, the 30th, on social media is calling for a meeting in defense of the Viomundo Blog at 17 pm on Tuesday (2) at the headquarters of the Barão de Itararé Center for Alternative Media Studies – Rua Rego Freitas, 454, 1st floor, República, Centro de São Paulo.
On Friday night (29), after learning that he had lost a lawsuit filed by Ali Kamel, director of Central Globo de Jornalismo, journalist Luiz Carlos Azenha, responsible for Viomundo, announced the end of the blog..
Azenha argues that he has no way to pay the R$ 30 imposed by the sentence, plus the expenses he will have with lawyers to appeal in other instances, and at the same time maintain the blog.
The act proposes:
1 - To mobilize parliamentarians to denounce Globo's persecution of the blogosphere;
2 - online fundraising campaign to pay the R$ 30 fine;
3 - Protests at Globo against censorship and in defense of freedom of expression. April 26th - the network's anniversary;
4 - Contact the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression to denounce censorship by TV Globo.