Solidarity is a living force! Light it up! On Monday, December 16th, 2013, as a hot sun of 34°C was setting and the full moon was rising against the sky that covers us, we paid a visit to a Santander bank branch located on Osvaldo Aranha Avenue, right in front […]
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In the early hours of October 17th, 2013 Paulo Roberto Pinho de Menezes, 18, was beaten to death by officers of the ‘Police Pacification Unit’ (UPP) in the Manguinhos favela of Rio de Janeiro. The cops immobilized the teenager and took him in a dark back-alley, where they fiercely beat […]
On the 15th, 16th and 17th of November 2013, the 4th Anarchist Bookfair of Porto Alegre will take place along with the 1st Anarchist Video Screening in the city. On this fourth occasion of the fair, we once again invite all interested persons and collectives to engage themselves in the […]
For those who do not understand why black bloc activists use militant tactics to destroy the property of corporations: black bloc activists are not protesters! They are not out there to protest! They are out there to carry out direct action against symbols and mechanisms of oppression. Their actions are […]
COUNTER-INFORMATION. CONSPIRACY. SOLIDARITY. DIRECT ACTION. Comrades, We invite you to visit and share information via the new counter-information blog from the region controlled by the Brazilian State: Cumplicidade (‘Complicity’). This initiative is emerging in the actual context where social war is intensifying day by day, and the accumulated rage of […]
On the night of July 17th, in the southern zone of Rio de Janeiro, thousands staged a protest across the street where the state governor Sérgio Cabral Filho lives in luxury. Riots and arrests followed in Leblon, the most affluent district in the city.
Finally the Brazilian metropolises are living the moments that they haven’t seen since long ago. Since the beginning of June 2013, hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of dozens of cities in the context of a struggle against a fare hike for public transit, as well […]
Click on photo to read the message of some people from the autonomous space cologne (az köln), in germany, who also call for solidarity with the families threatened with eviction in the milton santos land occupation…
On Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 the residents of the Borel favela (Morro do Borel, occupied since 1921 in Rio de Janeiro) went out in the streets in a collective effort to break the curfew that the cops of the local UPP (‘Police Pacification Unit’) have imposed in the area since […]
The true spirit of tatu-bola —comrades’ account from the streets On the 4th of October, Porto Alegre was the first city in Brazil where the huge inflatable ‘Tatu-Bola’, mascot for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, was pierced by angry protesters that were gathered to manifest their desire for free public […]
Anarchist comrades have come up with a proposal to organize a film festival. The aim of the event will be encounter, interaction and debate around audiovisual production, critical of the reality that we want to destroy. Making use, inevitably, of the technologies of the modern world, we recognize the importance […]
On Friday, September 28th, we hung a banner as a token of propaganda and solidarity with our brothers and sisters prisoners of war, at the entrance of the Túnel da Conceição in downtown Porto Alegre. The banner was dedicated to imprisoned comrades in Bolivia and read: ‘With all forms of […]