Brazil Worker's Podcast
By CSP-Conlutas International
Brazil Worker's PodcastSep 09, 2020
#23 - News About Labour and People Issues From CSP-Conlutas
📶 In this episode:
⭕ #15N National Day of Action for the release of political prisoners in Cuba
⭕ President Alberto Fernandez and his Peronist party lost the parliamentary elections held on November 14th.
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#22 - News About Labour and People Issues From CSP-Conlutas
📶 In this episode:
⭕ Brazil’s Coronavirus death-toll reaches six hundred thousand
⭕ Chilean lower house of the Parliament passed a law to make abortion legal
⭕ Peruvian president Pedro Castillo announced the “second land reform”
⭕ Deaths in a factional dispute to control one of the largest Ecuadorian prisons at Guayas provinceeconomic recession
⭕ Virtual international plenary of International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles: organizations from 13 countries attended the meeting
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#21 - News About Labour and People Issues From CSP-Conlutas
📶 In this episode:
⭕ Native-Brazilians have held daily demonstrations in Brasilia city against a deadline on land claims
⭕ Brazil faces the worst drought in 91 years
⭕ Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) announced the official report on estimated population
⭕ According to FORBES magazine, Brazil had 315 billionaires on June 30, 2021, despite the Covid-19-related economic recession
#20 - News About Labour and People Issues From CSP-Conlutas
In this episode:
⭕ The Brazilian economy forecast seems gloomy
⭕ Bolivian public prosecutor accused former president Jeanine Añez of genocide
⭕ The Palestinian rights were addressed by the Human Rights Commission of the Chilean Constitutional Convention
#19 - News About Labour and People Issues From CSP-Conlutas
In this episode:
- Justice sentences former Metalworker Union president to prison for organizing the defense of GM jobs
- The earthquake and imperialism problems in Haiti
- Daniel Ortega invaded La Prensa daily newspaper premises
- Solidarity with Justicia 11J cuban movement to free Cuban political prisoners
- Solidarity with the families of the 28 Lebanese citizens who lost their lives in an explosion in Akkar on August 15
#18 - News About Labour and People Issues From CSP-Conlutas
In this episode:
- Military parade of Bolsonaro in Brasilia
- The protests to demand jobs in Argentina
- Solidarity with all political prisoners in Cuba
- Solidarity with Zuheir Hammadi, suspended by the company Webhelp Maroc
#17 - News About Labour and People Issues From CSP-Conlutas
In this episode:
- The lack of funding for the Brazilian Olympic team
- The protests for food and freedom in Olympics
- Solidarity with the Syrian people in Idlib and Deraa
#16 - News About Labour and People Issues From CSP-Conlutas
In this episode:
- 2.5 million citizens receiving the Corona vaccine in Brazil
- Eight thousand immigrants Honduras are heading to the US border
- Brazilian Palmeiras wins the Libertadores Cup after beating Santos
#15 - General strike day in Italy called by CUB Trasporti and Chile abolishes its dictatorship constitution
🔊 The 15o episode of Brazil Workers’ Podcast is available:
In this episode, we address the general strike of October 23 in Italy, called by CUB Trasporti, to protest against the social and economic policies of the government. The main demands of the strike were against the precariousness and exploitation of work, for a guaranteed and decent income for workers and retirees, for the right to health, education and housing, but also against privatizations and military expenses of one of the main imperialist states of Europe.
To talk about this struggle, we have an interview with Daniele Cofani, national director of CUB Trasporti.
In Chile, the 1980 authoritarian constitution has been kept by both right-wing and “left-wing” administrations over 30 years of “democracy”.
That is a major achievement of the Chilean revolution which started on October 18, 2019.
#14 - Process Constitution and the Revolution in Chile
🔊 The 14o episode of Brazil Workers’ Podcast is available:
In this episode, we address the revolutionary process in Chile, with a brief report of Maria Rivera, an activist lawyer in defense of political prisoners and in struggle against Sebastián Piñera Neoliberal Government and its state and police violence.
#13 - Days of Fire in Brazil
🔊 The 13o episode of Brazil Workers’ Podcast is available:
In this episode, we address an issue that concerns not only Brazil but the whole world: the destruction of forests in Brazil, especially the Amazon and the Pantanal region.
The number of fires burning in standing Amazon rainforest spiked dramatically in recent weeks, threatening the forest’s biodiversity — a richness of flora and fauna not adapted to withstand the flames. The forest burned is estimated at roughly 4.6 million acres (1.8 million hectares) — an area about three-fifths the size of Belgium.
The Pantanal, the largest flooded region in the world, since the end of 2019 suffers a wave of fires. It is estimated that the flames have destroyed approximately 3.3 million hectares, or 22% of the region. The images have touched people around the world.
In June of this year, the CSP-Conlutas entered with a representation at the PGR (Attorney General's Office), with the demand to remove Ricardo Salles from the ministry. For the CSP-Conlutas, what the government of Bolsonaro and Salles has done is criminal!
#12 - Embraer illegal dismissal of 2500 workers
🔊 The 12o episode of Brazil Workers’ Podcast is available:
Embraer announced in early September the dismissal of 2500 workers, among them metalworkers injured or in pre-retirement period, which makes the dismissals illegal.
The labor union, besides mobilizing against mass dismissal, also denounces the super salaries of some top-level employees of the company, a gross inequality that, if it were balanced in a reasonable and fair way, would already make it possible to have enough resources to maintain the jobs of these workers.
To talk about the situation, we have in this edition the participation of the CSP-Conlutas leader, from the International Caucus, and Embraer metalworker, Herbert Claros.
#11 - 41 years of Amnesty law in Brazil need to be remembered
What was the military dictatorship in Brazil? What is the Amnesty law? In this episode, a special one about 41 years of Amnesty law, we talk about this issue with Mané Bahia, from the group of formers prisioners and persecuted politicians of Socialist Convergence and one of the interlocutors of Brazil's Political Amnisties.
#SE - Brazilian Postal Workers on National Strike
#10 - Erek Slater Campaign and our demand for Justice for Jacob Blake
#9 - About the return to school in the middle of pandemic in Brazil
#8 - Interview With Lebanese Activists on the Blast at the Port of Beirut and Mobilizations
#7 - Day Action in Brazil | Mapuche Chile, General Strike in Bolivia and BDS Coordinator arrest
#6 - The high gains of the rich in Brazil / Report on the online national meeting of CSP-Conlutas
#5 - Interview with a Fiocruz Researcher on the Pandemic / Unemployment in Brazil / Cultural Tip
#4 - National Days Actions / Pandemic in Brazil
#3 - Struggles in Brazil / South Africa against the Pandemic
- Brazilian Jet maker Embraer announced a voluntay layoff plan
- Food delivery apps workers went on national strike last July 1st
- Oil Workers of Petrobras on struggle against privatization
- In São Paulo, subway workers may go on strike in defense of their contract
- Nationally, Labor Federations and social movements called a national day of action for July 10 for immediate impeachment of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.
On second part, we will have our brother Shaheed Mohamad, a militant who fought back and was persecuted by the apartheid regime that oppressed and segregated blacks in South Africa. Afterwards, he was dismissed for the fight against school fees known as “Fee Must Fall”. He describes for us the situation of the pandemic in his country and the consequences on education.
#2 - Freedom for Sebastian Romero / Stonewall Uprising
Sebastian Romero has been persecuted politically since December 18, 2017 for having participated with thousands of workers in the mobilization against the pension reform. Romero is a political prisoner which is inadmissible in a society that pretends to be democratic. His supporters and many human rights organizations are putting pressure on Argentinian president Alberto Fernandez and the courts to set Sebastian Romero free now.
June 28 was the Global LGBTQI+ Pride Day named after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York. Sao Paulo uses to hold the largest parade in the world gathering one million people. However, coronavirus outbreak prevented any large demonstration. CSP-Conlutas LGBTQI+ caucus held a webinar to celebrate Global Pride Day. Professor Wilson Honorio speaks about the LGBTQI+ struggles in Brazil.
First episode - News about Brazil and Campaign to Reinstate Erek Slater
Welcome Brazil Workers's Podcast listeners! This is the first podcast. In this episode we talked about the current scandal involving ultra-right president Jair Bolsonaro and his family. The Federal Police with authorization from the Supreme Court launched the largest operation ever against supporters of a sitting president. Under the scope of an investigation into the use of clandestine networkers spreading fake news and promoting anti-democratic protests. Another news is the arrest of Fabricio Queiroz, an old friend of the president's who worked for his eldest son, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro. Mr. Queiroz is a pivotal figure in a money-laundering investigation against the senator.
We will also listen Erek Slater a Chicago Bus Driver who will report the mobilizations against racism in US and the persecution that he has suffered in Chicago for addressed his co-workers to share the official public statement of the ATU International President regarding to refuse to drive police. This ATU statement was released in the context of the mass protests over the murder of George Floyd.
This is a pilot program!