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Interview of Áurea Carolina by Nathália Urban (@UrbanNathalia) The world is aware of the absurdity and outbursts of Jair Bolsonaro’s government, but perhaps people do not know that many of their mistaken decisions are facing strong resistance, mainly in the Chamber of Deputies. One of the main voices of this resistance is Deputy Áurea Carolina, […]
Available FREE on iTunes and Podbean After a break, Ungagged is back! Neil Scott rants like a red ham about Brexit, the empire and the climate protests, Debra Torrance and Liz Olson tell us to Dare, and she also tells us that it will be better! Music from, Phat Bollard, Vokxen, Jackal Trades and Katie MF! Get […]
According to information from the Federal Union of Public servers of Basic, Professional and Technological Education (SINASEFE), the teacher and trade unionist Camila Marques was arrested yesterday morning, (Tues 15/04), at the Aguas Lindas campus of the Federal Institute of Goiás (IFG). She was in class when she was detained. During a statement recorded in […]
The small city I am currently in is 320 miles from Christchurch. This feels more like a small town than a city to me, with a population of just over half a million; even though I only know one other person here, I am not short of friends as people here greet me on the […]
Brazil is a place of many contradictions, inequalities and social struggles with no easy answers. Many have failed to either minimise or even address these problems in the past, but no one has shown so much disregard for them as current president Jair Bolsonaro does. At least, not since the days of dictatorship that plunged […]
The George Collins Book Club When you’re so desperate for book recommendations that you turn to a bald twenty-something burnout for help. Gods above help you. Gerald Horne – The Counter-Revolution of 1776 “[White nationalists] have this very naïve view of the United States. They want to cling to this idea of the Founding Fathers […]
News, Articles, Reviews and Opinion Open letter from #ResistBrazil Scotland Trans visibility in Brazil Dam disaster in Brazil Brazil, Bolsonaro, Liberation Theology and the new attacks on the Church Colombia Attacks, Venezuela Brazil: Teacher Illegally Detained During Class by Police Áurea Carolina speaks out: “Brazil has become an even more threatening country for those who […]
Venezuela: an update Things are getting ugly between Brazil and Venezuela. The Bolivarian National Guard expanded their security on Saturday morning and all the access has being closed down, according to the Brazilian Army. In addition to the military post between Pacaraima and Santa Elena do Uairen, Venezuelan soldiers have been mobilised around large parts […]
I went to A&E in mid-April 2017 with severe abdominal pain. Once they ruled out appendicitis, the male doctors all said that the problem must be food poisoning. I told them that I had lived in rural Senegal, I know what dysentery feels like. This was not food poisoning. They told me it was and […]
Bolsonaro’s government is becoming well known for their paranoia against “invisible enemies,” one of their traits is to accuse the most unthinkable people/institutions to be leftists. After accusing BBC, The EU and The economist of being communists, Bolsonaro’s government has a new target: The Catholic Church! It might sound surprising and even random to many […]