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One Year on from the Coup in Brazil, Injustice Continues – Chris Williamson

IT’S been a year since Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff of the Brazilian Workers Party (PT), was removed from office.

British Figures Speak Out Against the Coup in Brazil, One Year On

Despite having no mandate, the government has reversed social programmes that took 40 million people out of poverty, write signatories including Louise Haigh MP, Dr Francisco Dominguez and Brian Eno.

Take A Stand For Brazil’s Lula – Tony Burke

The hugely popular former president Lula is a victim of a legal witch-hunt and ‘trial by media.’ International solidarity is now more vital than ever, says TONY BURKE (2/9/17)

Brazil’s Most Popular Leader Has Been Convicted of Corruption on Flimsy Evidence – Mark Weisbrot

Lula da Silva and his Workers’ Party are an affront to the country’s traditional elite — which is itself mired in corruption — so they want to destroy him by any means necessary. (9/8/17)

Two Year Coup Plot Finalised – Brazil’s Corrupt Congress Protects Bribe-Saturated President

Glen Greenwald & The Intercept_ (3/8/17)

JUST OVER A YEAR AGO, in Brasília, one of the most nauseating and humiliating political spectacles I’ve ever seen took place over nine hours. In Brazil’s lower House – a body where a majority of members are implicated in corruption investigations – one dirty, shady cretin after the next stood up in front of television cameras and flamboyantly declared that their conscience, their religion, their God, their children, their devotion to Jerusalem, the memory of their mother, their pastor, the purity of their soul demanded that they punish corruption by removing the elected President, Dilma Rousseff, from office.

Ask your MP to Sign – Stand up for Democracy & Social Progress in Brazil

Ask your MP to add their name to this statement in solidarity with democracy and social progress in Brazil, one year on from the coup that removed the elected President.