(en) Brazil, Anarchist Organization Land and Freedom (OATL):
MANIFESTO of TIDE AGAINST EXTERMINATION (pt) [machine translation]
Tide manifesto against Extermination written by residents and Maré Complex companions
still in the heat of confrontation occurred yesterday, February 23, 2015. We ask each
individual or collective to support this manifest sign and share to as many people as
possible. ---- All the support and solidarity with the residents of Complexo da Maré! ----
Last week at Tide: ---- - On February 12: Five friends had the car shot by the military in
Salsa and Merengue when returning from a party. One of the vehicle occupants and has lost
a leg, remains hospitalized in serious condition. ---- - Day 20 February: a mason was
killed while doing their work in John Village. ---- - Day February 21: Five people were
shot inside a van that was the path Tide X Bonsucesso ---- - Day February 23: A 11 year
old was shot in the back by a shot of the Brazilian Army. The army itself prevented the
immediate withdrawal of the child to the hospital.
Due to these barbaric crimes committed by the state, a peaceful act was organized by
locals in Maré Slum set on the night of February 23, 2015. The Avenue Brazil was taken by
over 500 people from outraged residents and social movements Rio de Janeiro. Not even the
presence of police and army soldiers armed to the genocide was able to prevent the
crossing of the walls surrounding the slums: firm steps of a population that does not
support longer live under the bitter taste of the militarization of everyday life.
The response of the repressive forces was the disproportionate use of heavy weapons
against his clenched fists of the residents of Tide. The angry group coming down the
Timbau Hill to add to the manifestation already reached the Red Line was surrounded by
shooting performed by the Army and Military Police.
The dispersion was inevitable and so far we continue following the alarming reports of
countless injuries and fatalities of state brutality.
Those who were demonstrating against the constant shootings, murders and injured every day
in the community have become the new victims of a process of "pacification" liar, that
silent voices that insist on being dissonant with tear gas, pepper spray and shots bullet
of lead and steel. We the social movements reject extermination size of Rio's slum
population - not only the Tide as in several communities supposedly "pacified" the carioca
metropolis.
It is clear to us who is responsible for the atrocities of the acts of today. The fault is
not the slum! Blame the State!
Sign this manifesto:
GEP (Group of Popular Education)
Anarchist Organization Land and Freedom (OATL)
