Protest in Paris denounces genocide in Brazil and the Bolsonaro government.
"Brazil dies a little more each day as its people are claimed by the pandemic, the second most affected country, with a real number of victims certainly ten times higher than announced," says a manifesto signed by the organizers of the event.
247 - The Alerte France Brésil and Md18 collectives held a demonstration in the Trocadero Square in Paris against the genocide taking place in Brazil and against the Bolsonaro government. They wrote a manifesto entitled "Every day, Brazil dies a little more."
The demonstration denounced attacks on the Amazon, women, indigenous people, artists, Black people, and LGBT people, and made reference to Marielle Franco, a former congresswoman murdered by militias in Rio de Janeiro. Dozens of people lay on the ground, carrying crosses, representing the victims of genocide.
Check out the text of the manifesto:
A performance in memory of all the victims of the Brazilian genocide.
Brazil dies a little more each day as its people are decimated by the pandemic, the second most affected country, with a real number of victims certainly ten times higher than announced, and the large portion of the precarious and exploited population is once again sacrificed on the altar of the profits of an insatiable minority willing to endorse all crimes in order to preserve its privileges.
Brazil dies a little more each day as its fragile democracy is attacked by a gang of mafiosos who reached the Planalto Central through rigged elections and who implicitly authorize all forms of racist, homophobic violence against political opponents, environmentalists, native peoples, and media professionals, and who encourage the destruction of its forests and natural reserves, handed over to the unlimited appetite of agribusiness giants and unscrupulous adventurers.
With Brazil, a piece of the world's beauty, its human and environmental diversity, its magic, is attacked every day under the deafening silence of democracies and, in particular, European countries that, pretending that nothing serious is happening, continue their business with a cynical and deadly government that tramples all principles.
And yet, another Brazil is possible.