"A city council member and her driver were shot to death by two unidentified attackers on a downtown street Wednesday night in Rio de Janeiro... on Saturday accused officers of being overly aggressive in searching residents of gang-controlled shantytowns" https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/03/14/world/americas/ap-lt-brazil-rio-council-slaying.html …
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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 …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
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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/ …1 reply 1 retweet 1 likeShow 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 …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow 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 …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow 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/Nfs2a1BS0Fc
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