#ChangeBrazil

Hello Everyone! 

Today's topic is a bit of a heavy one. 

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Recently there have been a lot of protests in the major cities in Brazil. It started out as a response to the raising of transportation costs by twenty cents (a lot for people over there), but now it stands for a lot more than that. Brazil is a wonderful and beautiful country, but it also is very poor. They do not have a very good public education or health system, and it affects everyone. Well that is, except the government officials. I have a few friends from Brazil and they all verify these reports. The majority of the government leaders are corrupt, and it is just a bad situation.

These demonstrations have turned into more than a complaint about buses; Brazil is now shouting from the top of their lungs that they want this to change. The movement has adopted the slogan, "It's not just 20 cents"

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The movement is supported by peaceful protestors who flood the streets in the major cities in Brazil. This is a recent picture from Rio de Janeiro, and click here to see a short video clip of this same scene. Here is a news article about the protests in Brazil.

I have seen a few videos of the times when the protestors have been violent, but then they are overwhelmed by the volume that I have seen with innocent people being fired upon. Here is a website that has compiled videos from the protests.

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These people have swarmed the streets, and really want to change their country. 

This is a video that has different people of the Brazilian Press commenting about the protests. There are english subtitles in the description 

(just click through so you can watch the youtube version)

The girl who this video focuses on was a reporter who was just standing by, doing her thing at the protests, and a police officer came over to her and shot her in the eye with a rubber bullet.

I want to show my support for a positive change in Brazil by blogging about it. Now the question is, what will you do?

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