Tuesday, June 10, 2014

tues., 10 june, 2014: brazilian social justice, ii.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE:   Leis para inglês ver...  ‡‡

‡‡ )   Just for show for the English...  =  a Brazilian aphorism used by graffiti muralist Paulo Ito to refer to the billions & billions of dollars being spent by the Brazilian on the forthcoming World Cup, & after that, the Olympics, while making deep cuts in programs to fight poverty & dislocating thousands of residents from the stadium sites, all of this galvanizing the Brazilian public, resulting in protests & riots, & esp. to the very weak gestures the govt. has made in response to the protests; Paulo Ito has tapped into the zeitgeist with a mural most recently captured in mural by Paulo Ito, adorning the front doors of a São Paulo schoolhouse, a mural depicting a starving Brazilian child of the favela w/ nothing but a soccer ball on his plate, & virally-replicated on social & a-social media all over the world, web media & television — whether left- or right-wing... 

http://www.topix.com/br/sao-paulo/2014/05/mural-of-starving-brazilian-child-eating-a-soccer-ball-goes-viral

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