A-Infos (en) Brazil, CAB: NO AMNESTY! NO SHIELDING! ORGANIZE FROM THE GROUND IN OUR TERRITORIES WITH DIRECT DEMOCRACY! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On September 16, the Chamber of Deputies approved the Shielding 
Amendment (PEC), which provides protection for members of parliament who 
commit crimes. It establishes that criminal proceedings against 
representatives and senators must be initiated by parliament in a secret 
ballot. Furthermore, the proposal included a kind of "privileged forum" 
for party presidents, who would benefit from the same rules. This rule 
was in effect in Brazil between 1998 and 2001, with disastrous results 
for the country. Parliament blocked more than 250 investigations, 
allowing only one investigation during that period. The blocked 
investigations even included a case involving a representative linked to 
an extermination group, and, of course, there were also cases of 
corruption. It's no surprise that this rule is returning at a time when 
there are numerous investigations related to the misappropriation of 
parliamentary amendments.

Are these representatives proposing to vote for income tax exemption or 
the end of the 6x1 tax bracket? Clearly not; the people are never on the 
agenda of the political elite. This constitutional amendment is yet 
another demonstration of the farce that maintains the supposedly 
democratic rule of law. Whose right, for whom? Those who legislate do so 
to defend their interests and the agendas of the ruling classes. Despite 
being part of what is called the Legislative Branch, they are 
legislating to interfere in the so-called Judiciary Branch in order to 
benefit themselves - which is nothing new. The supposed autonomy of each 
of the "Three Branches" is a grand theater, since reality shows us the 
existence of only One power: the power of the elites. Within capitalism 
and bourgeois democracy, there will never be a Congress friendly to the 
people, and the State will never be democratic or uphold the rule of law 
for us-Black men and women, LGBT people, residents of the outskirts, 
workers, quilombolas, and Indigenous people. The State will never be a 
friend of the people because we are enemies by nature. Class enemies.

While 30% of people imprisoned in Brazil are still awaiting trial, 
according to data from the National Secretariat of Penal Policies, an 
agency of the Ministry of Justice, deputies and senators want to 
legalize their nefarious crimes. Their million-dollar salaries and 
abusive labor privileges are not enough; now they want to pass a law 
that corroborates what has existed in Brazil since the land was named: 
those with money and power have the right to impunity.

Data from the National Secretariat of Penal Policies shows that, of all 
people imprisoned in Brazil, 96% are men. Of these, 44% have not had 
their right to formal education respected or guaranteed by the State. 
The same State that wants to see him arrested or dead: among the victims 
of police brutality in 2023, 87% were Black people, the overwhelming 
majority young men; 63% of incarcerated people are Black or brown, while 
they make up 55.5% of the population. It is clear that criminal 
legislation and the police force have been and are used, since the first 
penal codes, to criminalize and exterminate the Black population. While 
representatives shield themselves in their mansions and expensive suits, 
the State sends its armored vehicles to the outskirts, taking lives and 
continuing the funeral march of this war against the poor-impoverished 
by this same State and its ineffective, negligent, insufficient, and 
even murderous public policies.

It is clear that bourgeois democracy does not offer us the answers we 
need to guarantee life and dignity for all Brazilians. No Congress or 
Chamber of Deputies has had, has, or will have the capacity (or 
interest) to truly serve the people and their needs. Therefore, the 
dispute over these spaces is not in our plans as especifista anarchists. 
It is better to take to the streets and demonstrate the revolt that 
springs from the people who sustain the State and its elites. A people 
who are exhausted from carrying them on their backs while suffering the 
consequences of their decisions that make our lives increasingly difficult.

It is better to fight for true freedom and true democracy: that which 
originates from the people who, organized, make decisions based on 
principles such as solidarity, mutual aid, and popular justice. It is 
better to rebel against these would-be masters who have never left the 
Big House. Let us burn down the Big House, strengthen our quilombos, our 
peripheries, our indigenous communities. Let the favela rise up, let the 
workers rebel-and let this uprising, this rebellion, be organized to 
build People's Power, with self-management of the spaces of struggle, 
with class autonomy, and without false illusions about the Three Powers, 
the State, and its elites. Let us make the asphalt melt and then plant 
the new world that inhabits our hearts.
https://cabanarquista.com.br/sem-anistia-sem-blindagem-organizar-pela-base-em-nossos-territorios-com-democracia-direta/
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