Homeless Workers' Movement

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Leader of Brazil’s homeless movement eyes presidential palace

June 7, 2018

by Paula Ramon Agence France-Presse SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP)- He’s got barely one percent in the polls so far, but 35-year-old leftist Guilherme Boulos says Brazil is ripe for a new face willing to take on the corrupt and powerful in October presidential elections. “It’s David against Goliath,” Boulos acknowledged in an interview at his small office in Sao Paulo. “But it’s possible because people are searching for a new form of doing politics.” Boulos represents […]

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Brazil homeless group occupies apartment in Lula corruption case

April 17, 2018

GUARUJA, Brazil (AFP) — A group of homelessness activists briefly occupied Monday the seaside apartment at the heart of the corruption case that saw ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva imprisoned earlier this month. About 30 members of the Homeless Workers’ Movement and other leftist activists got into the triplex apartment in Guaruja, near Sao Paulo, hanging placards from the balcony in support of Lula. “Release Lula or there’ll be no peace,” they shouted. Lula […]

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