Brazil Worker's Podcast

📶 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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📶 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

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

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

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

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

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

🔊 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.

🔊 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.

🔊 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!

🔊 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.

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.

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!