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System Fail #18: Democracy and its Discontents

just give me the script, don't make me listen to the robot

As the gears of recuperation churn popular energy towards supporting a heavily sanitized list of politicians in the US, the people of so-called Brazil are dealing with the aftermath of a hotly contested election. Despite widespread reports of voter suppression and vote buying, right-wing incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, has lost by a narrow margin to neoliberal centrist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva better known as Lula. Bolsonaro supporters are taking the news particularly poorly and have attempted to shut down the country but have been faced with fierce resistance from Brazil’s working class, antifascists and football ultras.

System Fail #7: Brazil’s Little Flu

CW: Death, Police Brutality, Homophobia – Hardcoded subtitles
In this episode of System Fail we look at the devastating effects that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the people of Brazil. We also speak with Brazilian-based anarchist Acácio Augusto, of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP).

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