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Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

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Bachelor in Intl. Relations (PUCSP), Master candidate in Communications (Cásper Líbero), blogger and lover of Alt. Media, Euskal Herria (Basque Country), Nationalism and Cyberculture.

Blog: Tsavkko - The Angry Brazilian
Columnist of the Diário Liberdade - “Defenderei a casa de meu pai” [pt]
Trezentos [pt]
Amálgama [pt]
Other publications available on magazines and newspapers [pt]
Twitter: @Tsavkko
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Latest posts by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

10 February 2012

Brazil: “We Are All Pinheirinho” Spreads Around the World

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Brazilians all over the world, as well as citizens from different countries, have mobilized in support of the community of Pinheirinho recently evicted from their houses in São José dos Campos. Protests were held in various cities around the world.

8 February 2012

Brazil

Blogger Mauricio Caleiro comments [pt] on a new wave of privatization - “masked” as “concessions” - led by Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff who, during the electoral campaign, said she was against this instrument. So far three of the biggest Brazilian airports were sold to private companies.

Brazil

Blogger and writer Antônio Mello reproduces a denouncement [pt] by the new Minister of the Special Secretariat for Women, Eleonora Menicucci, in which she says that her 1 year old daughter was tortured during the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985)  in 1972, in front of her.

7 February 2012

Brazil

Teacher Chico Bicudo [pt] and journalist Lino Bocchini from the blog Desculpe a Nossa Falha [pt] comment on the fact that the newspaper Folha de São Paulo still declares itself as the number one newspaper in Brazil while the country's institute that verifies the circulation of newspapers denies it.

Brazil

Blogger Sonia Matuscelli posts a letter [pt] written by the leaders of the Guarani-Kaiowá people of the Ñanderu Laranjeira-Rio Brilhante settlement, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, saying that they “want to physically and culturally survive as a Brazilian original people”, in face of the genocide they are suffering.

3 February 2012

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Brazil: Pinheirinho Videos ‘Cover-Up' Leads Activist to Hunger Strike

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The violent eviction of thousands of poor residents from their homes in Pinheirinho, Brazil, has been documented by activists. One of them, Pedro Rios Leão, is on hunger strike in protest against the alleged concealment of the severity of the "massacre" by the mainstream media.

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