Moving and informative obituary of murdered human rights activist and politician #MarielleFranco, by @ggreenwald
#MariellePresentehttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/marielle-franco-death-dead-dies-brazil-assassination-rio-de-janeiro-protest-glenn-greenwald-a8259516.html …
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@ella_mahony: "#MarielleFranco’s assassins were overconfident. They have ended up raising the stakes, both for themselves and for the Left. And it’s possible that instead of liquidating the challenge Marielle represented, they’ve unleashed it."https://jacobinmag.com/2018/03/marielle-franco-brazil-assassination-police/ …Show this thread -
Kiratiana Freelon: "
#MarielleFranco ... died fighting for the rights of women and favela dwellers. As a councilwoman from the Maré favela, she denounced the police brutality that favela residents, most of them black, regularly experienced.https://www.theroot.com/say-her-name-marielle-franco-a-brazilian-politician-w-1823812564 …Show this thread -
"an open letter by international activists, writers, journalists, film-makers, politicians and actors has called for an investigation of [Rio de Janeiro councillor
#MarielleFranco's] murder by an independent commission"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/22/marielle-franco-inquiry-letter-urges-brazil-authorities …Show this thread -
“As black feminist scholars from the United States whose work focuses on racism, sexism, and anti-black violence in Brazil ... We are aware of the transnational significance of Marielle’s murder and its links to global practices of anti-black genocide”http://www.theblackscholar.org/on-the-imperative-of-transnational-solidarity-a-u-s-black-feminist-statement-on-the-assassination-of-marielle-franco/ …
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@TheRealNews reports on how the assassination of Brazilian anti-police violence and lgbtq activist#MarielleFranco has sparked a movementhttps://youtu.be/Nfs2a1BS0FcShow this thread
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@ShaunKing: "We must connect our struggles in the U.S. to those in Brazil.#MarielleFranco was one of us. Her priorities are our priorities. Her dreams are our dreams. Her struggles are our struggles."#MariellePresente#BlackLivesMatter
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/16/marielle-franco-assassination-brazil-police-brutality/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@zerotoledo: "Her immediate success bespoke a long career. Four bullets wiped out that future. But not her legacy"#MariellePresente#MarielleFrancoVIVEhttp://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/the-life-and-death-of-defiant-voice/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@guardian editorial on#MarielleFranco: “international condemnation of this murder [...] offers moral support to protesters and reminds mainstream politicians that Brazil will be judged on whether it brings Franco’s killers to justice”https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/16/the-guardian-view-on-the-of-brazilian-politicians-marielle-francos-legacy …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@ggreenwald on Brazil’s mainstream media’s attempt at ensuring “that#MarielleFranco’s death could be exploited to strengthen everything she fought to subvert”, and why it’s crucial to not allow them to succeedhttps://theintercept.com/2018/03/19/just-as-u-s-media-does-with-mlk-brazils-media-now-trying-to-whitewash-and-exploit-marielle-francos-political-radicalism/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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