Curitiba – 7/21/2018 – 8.00 PM
1- In an interview on the website Tutaméia, the PT’s National President, Senator Gleisi Hoffmann (PR), reiterated that Lula is the PT’s only candidate and that his candidacy will take place at the side of the People, on August 15 in Brasília. “We will register him as a candidate. Lula has the right to be registered. The Constitution guarantees him this right.” Gleisi went to say that if “Lula were released today, and could continue traveling the country with his caravan, as he was, talking to the People, he would win in the first round”.
2- This Saturday (July 21) the Free Lula Vigil hosted an exhibition entitled “A Beautiful Woman is One who Fights” (“Mulher bonita é a que luta”) by journalist Denise Veiga. The exhibition depicts the women taking part in the resistance against the political imprisonment of former president Lula, and was on display in front of the Federal Police headquarters in Curitiba. See it here: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=249291249132274&id=201372683924131
3- The “Good Morning, President Lula” yell took place on Saturday morning (21) with the participation of youth members from the metallurgists’ and chemists’ section of the CUT labor union. To cries of “Free Lula”, dozens of activists bolstered the Vigil in support of former president Lula that has been going on now for more than 100 days outside the place of Lula’s political imprisonment.
4- Next Monday (July 23) the March for Democracy and Freedom for Lula, an event organized by the MST in partnership with the Brazil Popular Front, arrives in Ceará. The March will go from the municipality of Caucaia to the center of Fortaleza. Pedro Neto, a member of the MST’s national leadership in Ceará, has stressed that the March seeks to broaden dialog with society on the subject of the coup in progress in Brazil since the unjustified impeachment that deposed Dilma Rousseff and led to the political imprisonment of Lula.
Bulletin 153 – Popular Committee in Defense of Lula and Democracy
Curitiba – 7/21/2018 – 8.00 PM
