#Pinheirinho
by ana australiana
English:
The struggle for Pinheirinho will remain an inspiration
Brazil police storm landless settlement near São Paulo [I think the BBC have mixed the meaning of 'roofless' (sem teto: i.e. a major social movement supporting the occupation is O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto, the urban movement of roofless workers — as opposed to sem terra, represented by rural movements such as the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra)].
Police clash with slum residents for a second day
português:
Solidariedade á ocupação Pinheirinho
Ferido em confronto por Pinheirinho passa para cirurgia
I remember the bus ride out of São Paulo, headed for the countryside, past the yards of homes made out of plastic bags from the hipermercado I’d been getting my lunch from most days.
I am no expert (despite failed professorial attempts to fashion me into a ‘Latin Americanist’ or ‘Brazilianist’), my command of Brazilian Portuguese is not even strong enough to translate some articles faithfully for you, I have spent only a little time in these spaces — long enough to feel the pull of their complexity and how easily they are simplified. But I will still say that I think #Pinheirinho is the brutal, spectacular underside of global city making, and that these are days to mourn.
