After the #EleNão (#NotHim) phenomenon in the social networks, rejection against candidate Jair Bolsonaro will take the streets this Saturday (29). In different Brazilian cities, and even abroad, demonstrations are scheduled against the PSL candidate and his male chauvinistic speech, of hatred against women and disdain of democracy.
By: CSP Conlutas
Facebook already registered over 100 events summoned in Brazilian capitals, in inland cities in several states, and abroad, like in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra (Portugal), Berlin and Munich (Germany), Paris and Lyon (France), Galway (Ireland), Barcelona (Spain), Sidney and Gold Coast (Australia), London (England), and The Hague (Holland), among others.
Artists and Supporter Clubs against “It”
Besides women in general and feminist movements, several artists are also mobilizing and calling to the demonstrations this Saturday. Actors, singers and bloggers are recording videos explaining why people should join the #elenão campaign and calling women to participate in the demonstration. In the video, other three women are challenged to do the same.
“I did my video calling all women for the demonstration on the 29. Let us say together #elenão! Let us reaffirm democracy, equality, freedom, and above all love!” posted actor Sophie Charlotte.
Challenged by Maria Gadu, the Sertanejo singer Marília Mendonça published in her account a video with over 1 million views. “Because in the end, it is not a matter of political choice, it is a matter of good judgment!”
Soccer supporter clubs also took a standing, like Gaviões da Fiel, of the Corinthians team, the Torcida Jovem, of the Santos team, Palmeiras Antifacista and Palmeiras Livre clubs, supporters of Flamengo and the Internacional.
Hatred Speech
Women are organizing demonstrations, but men will also join them. The demonstrations will take place in a movement of growing rejection to the candidate and his campaign, which gathers a series of repulsive attacks on women, black, Quilombolas (Maroon populations), natives, poor and favelados (who live in poor neighborhoods).
The most recent attack took place in Recife (Pernambuco) on Sunday (23). Reproducing Bolsonaro’s speech, his campaign supporters organizes a “Family March” in the Pernambuco capital. The demonstration had the soundtrack of a parody of the Baile de Favela (Favela Dance) funk music, where women who did not vote for Bolsonaro were compared to “bitches”. “For feminists, animal food in a bowl. Right-wing chicks are the best, the most beautiful, as left-wing ones are harrier than bitches”, said a part of the lyric.
Last week, Bolsonaro’s vice-president, General Mourão declared that poor families “are like mother and grandmother” they are “factories of misfits”. Expressing complete disrespect and prejudice against millions of women who worthily are head of households and raise their children and grandchildren in the country.
The statements are similar to Bolsonaro’s very words. He already said that “an ugly woman does not deserve to be raped”, that he “faltered” when he had a daughter, that women should earn less than men, and all without taking into consideration the defense of torturers from the dictatorship, an apology to violence against gays, among other absurdities.
“Next 29, women will once again lead a significant political movement in the country. We will go to the streets to fight a project that openly naturalizes male chauvinism and reinforces the use of this ideology to further exploit women and other oppressed sectors of the working class,” stated Marcela Azevedo, member of MML (Women in Struggle Movement).
“In all, we know that this project goes beyond a single face. Masked or unmasked, this project is held by anyone who maintains his actions in the framework of capitalism and does not point to the need of building a socialist society to actually guarantee women’s emancipation and the liberation of black, LGBTs and the entire class.”
“Therefore, from the MML, we will build with all our strength the demonstrations next Saturday, to defeat IT (o Coiso), but also to make a calling to women not to trust on the “lesser evil”, and not to accept anything less than our rights, which have been historically denied,” she stated.
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Demonstrations in Brazil on the 29
SÃO PAULO
São Paulo: 15h – Largo da Batata
São José do Rio Preto: 12h – Esplanada do Teatro Pedro II
São José dos Campos: 09h – Praça Afonso Pena
Santos: 15h – Praça da Independência
Americana: 14h – Praça Comendador Muller
Franca: 10h – Largo do Rosário
Campinas: 15h – Rua Major Claudiano
Botucatu: 11h – Praça do Bosque
São Roque: 11h – Praça da Matriz
Jaboticabal: 10h – Praça 9 de Julho
Taubaté: 16h – Praça Santa Terezinha
Araraquara: 14h – Praça Santa Cruz
Bebedouro: 10h – Praça Barão do Rio Branco
Guaratinguetá: 09h – Praça Conselheiro Rodrigues
Jundiaí: 16h – Praça Monsenhor Marcondes
São Carlos: 09h – Local a definir
Ilha Bela: 18h – Praça do Perequê
RIO DE JANEIRO
Rio de Janeiro: 15h – Cinelândia
Petrópolis: 17h – Praça Dom Pedro
Niteroi (concentração): 14h – CCR Barcas (Estação Arariboia)
Campos: 15h – Praça São Salvador
Macaé: 16h – Praça Veríssimo de Melo
Rio das Ostras: 15h – 3 Morrinhos
MINAS GERAIS
Belo Horizonte: 15h – Praça Sete de Setembro
Juiz de Fora: 11h – Praça Halfeld
Uberlândia: 14h – Praça Tubal Vilela
Itajubá: 16h – Praça do Carneiro
Alfenas: 10h – Praça Dr. Emílio da Silveira (Coliseu)
São João Del Rey: 13h – Igreja São Francisco de Assis
ESPÍRITO SANTO
Vitória: 14h – Praça do Papa
RIO GRANDE DO SUL
Porto Alegre: 15h – Redenção
Osório: 14h – Praça da Matriz
Santa Cruz do Sul: 17h – Praça da Bandeira
Pelotas: 14h – Largo do mercado Central
Caxias do Sul: 15h – Praça Dante Aliguieri
Erechim: 14h – Praça dos Bombeiros
Redenção: 13h – Parque Farroupilha
Canela: 10h – Parque do Lago
Uruguaiana: 15h – Praça Argentina
SANTA CATARINA
Florianópolis: 15h – largo da Alfândega
Blumenau: 15h – Praça Dr. Blumenau
Balneário Camboriú: 16h – Praça Almirante Tamandaré
Rio do Sul: 15h – Parque Universidade Noberto Frahm
Criciúma: 15h – Praça Nereu Ramos
Joinville: 15h – Praça da Bandeira
PARANÁ
Curitiba: 14h – Boca Maldita
DISTRITO FEDERAL
Brasília: 15H – Praça Índio Galdino
GOIÁS
Goiânia: 15h – Sem local definido
MATO GROSSO
Cuiabá: 16h – Monumento Ulisses Guimarães (em frente ao Shopping Pantanal)
MATO GROSSO DO SUL
Campo Grande: 16h – Praça Ary Coelho
BAHIA
Salvador: 14h – Largo do Campo Grande
Feira de Santana: 09h – Em frente a Prefeitura
Ribeira Pombal: 17h – Praça da Juventude
Santo Antonio de Jesus: 14h – Praça Padre Matheus
Vitória da Conquista: 11h30 – Praça Barão do Rio
SERGIPE
Aracaju: 15h – Viaduto do Dia
ALAGOAS
Maceió: 15h – Praça Centenário
PERNAMBUCO
Recife: 14h – Praça do Derby
PARAÍBA
João Pessoa: 15h – Praça da Paz
RIO GRANDE DO NORTE
Natal: 15h – Midway Mall
Santana do Matos: 16h no posto Cajarana e caminhada até a Praça Aluísio Alves
CEARÁ
Fortaleza: 15h – Praia dos Crush
RM Cariri/Juazeiro do Norte: 16h – Praça do Giradouro
Iguatu: 17h – Praça da Matriz
PIAUÍ
Teresina: 16h – Praça da Liberdade
MARANHÃO
São Luís: 15h – Praça Maria Aragão
Grajaú: 17h30 – Praça Raimundo Simas
Imperatriz: 16h30 – Praça de Fátima
PARÁ
Belém: 17h – Mercado São Bráz
Santarém: 17h – Praça da Matriz
Castanhal: 08h – Praça da Matriz
Tucurui: 17h30 – Marajo – UFPA Breves
Abaetetuba: 16h30 – Praça do Barco
AMAZONAS
Manaus: 17h – Largo São Sebastião
AMAPÁ
Macapá: 16h – Praça Floriano Peixoto
TOCANTINS
Palmas: 16h – Praça dos Indígenas
(Fonte: Coletivo Juntas contra Bolsonaro)
Below the demonstrations summoned in other countries:
https://mucb-exterior.com/
GERMANY
Berlin
Place: May-Ayim-Ufer
Date and time: September 29, 3pm
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1102666529884503/
ARGENTINA
Buenos Aires
Place: Obelisco de Buenos Aires
Date and time: September 29, 11am
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/727739017605121/
AUSTRALIA
Sydney
Place: Sydney Opera House
Date and time: September 30, 11am
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/478925589254448/
Gold Coast
Date and time: September 30, 11 am
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/289385025225239/
CANADA
Montreal
Place: Place des Arts
Date and time: September 29, 5pm
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2391914377491364/
SPAIN
Barcelona
Place: Placa Sant Jaume
Date and time: September 29, 5pm
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/676467622721711/
FRANCE
Lyon
Place: Place Bellecour
Date and time: September 29, 2pm
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1777528955648825/?ti=as
HOLLAND
Place: Peace Palace
Date and time: September 29, 3pm
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1024556484406434/
ENGLAND
London
Place: Emmeline Pankhurst Statue
Date and time: September 29, 3pm
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/262625684387001/
PORTUGAL
Porto
Place: Praca dos Leoes
Date and time: September 29, 3pm
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2134491663482606/
Lisbon
Place: Praca Luis de Camoes
Date and time: September 29, 4pm
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/546455489133848/
Coimbra
Place: Praça 8 de Maio
Date and time: September 29, 4pm
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2300041976677018/?ti=cl
USA
New York
Place: Union Square Station
Date and time: September 29, 3pm
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/271113373741846/
Boston
Place: Harvard Square
Date and time: September 29, 5pm
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2205638479683563/
Atlanta
Place: Center for Civil and Human Rights
Date and time: September 29, 3pm
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1982494748483241/?ti=icl
#EleNão: On the 29, Women will go to the streets in Brazil and abroad against Bolsonaro and his male chauvinistic speech.
