Would they kill them all?

The politician Marielle Franco was shot by Policia Federal bullets

The fascist swelling in Brazil is loud and clear, but international community didn't turn its concern into concrete actions.

Meanwhile, an abject elite supported by think tanks, plants hate speeches among a certain indebted racist under-schooling middle class. A plethora of liberals, small traders, conservative youth and government servants, believers in  the most popular and illusory brazilian dream: be accepted by the elite.

A week after the killing of Marielle Franco and Anderson Pedro by Federal Police's bullets in Rio de Janeiro, another brazilian activist was attacked by shots in Alter do Chão. Raoni Valle is archeologist and antropologist. As many other friends related to science, arts and politics in Brazil, struggles for social rights in a harmful place.

Nobody knows who's next.

Entr'acte - Caroline Shaw - Calidore String Quartet

Raiku

Chuva e Schubert
Monchique some
sob o céu 
de chumbo

Do you think there's something wrong?

On the eve of the World Economic Forum, Oxfam presents its report of world's income concentration: 

2013: the poorest 50 percent of the world population produced 0.7 percent of the wealth. On the rich side, that same percentage was divided by 85 people. Bad. Brutal. 

2016: the poorest 50 percent owned only 0.2 percent of the world's wealth. On the wealthy side, this wealth is hit by only eight people. A fair result, thanks to the free world.

2017: the poorest 50 percent no longer have wealth that can be measured. They own zero percent. On the rich side there is good news: 82 percent of the world's wealth belongs to 1 percent of the population. No comments

2017: 100 million brazilians (50% of population) had the same wealth as 5 people.

About social changes

Social changes do not arise from the masses in their eternal expectation of command, of direction. They come from a small group of people, ideas and voices. People dedicated to improve the lives of those who ignore, criticize or attack the vanguard. Social changes are not social upheavals.

The others

Pedants are people who knows subjects we don't understand.

Pedantes são todas as pessoas que dominam assuntos que não entendemos.

Ludwig van Beethoven 5th Simphony. Orquestra Simón Bolívar. Gustavo Dudamel. Paris, 2015.