Straight from Curitiba – 1/9/2019 – 278 days of resistance – 7:15 PM
- Former Foreign Minister Celso Amorim and former Justice Minister José Eduardo Cardozo will visit ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday, December 10th, in Curitiba. This week marks 9 months of political imprisonment for Lula both visitors are working to reinforce the international campaign in defense of the former president’s release. After the visit, the former ministers will hold a press conference in front of the Federal Police headquarters at 5:00 pm. The interview will be broadcast by the PT, Lula’s social media, the Lula Livre Vigil and other partners. Read more here: http://www.pt.org.br/celso-amorim-e-jose-eduardo-cardozo-visitam-lula-nesta-quinta-10/
- Although the date was forgotten by the so-called “big media”, January 9th
marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Bolsa Família, a program that saved millions of Brazilians from hunger and kept millions of children in school. “We do not defend Bolsa Familia as a definitive program, but as long as there are poor people in Brazil it has to exist,” Lula said. Watch the message from Lula here: http://www.pt.org.br/assista-lula-explica-a-importancia-do-bolsa-familia/
- “Strength, Lula, the fight has only just begun, strength, Lula, the fight has only just begun.” Good morning, President, I just arrived. I arrived and sang to keep you company. And the people arrived and more people arrived. Strength, Lula the fight has only just begun. ” It was with this song that the day began in the Vigil Lula Livre this Wednesday, December 9th, sung by activists from the Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina chapters of the CUT labor union and activists from the MST.
- “It is an honor for CUT to be here at this camp, the activities of which we closely follow,” said Rio de Janeiro CUT President Marcelo Rodrigues at the Vigil today. “We know that we are going back to times that will be worse than the dictatorship, but we will never lower our heads and it will not be now that they break the workers. We are ready for the fight”. Afterwards, the activists yelled good morning to former President Lula.
Bulletin 324 – People’s Committee in Defense of Lula and Democracy
Straight from Curitiba – 1/9/2019 – 278 days of resistance – 7:15 PM
