Quartz - 9/05/13, By Osmundo Pinho and Micol Seigel
Protecting police above citizens. Reuters/Pilar Olivares
Anyone who still thinks the revolution will not be televised isn’t paying attention to Brazil.
Certainly in some ways Brazil, in all its tension and tragedy, is no more than this season’s most visible microcosm of the stratifications afflicting the planet—one nation’s 99%. And the high-tech engagements of the protestors may also be no more than that of their counterparts in Tahrir Square or on Wall Street. But Brazil’s contradictions throw this iteration of global protest into high relief, because the police brutality and state violence trouble Brazil’s international image of cordial civility and racial harmony.
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