Brazil Protests

With all the hoopla around Edward Snowden, the NSA, Turkey's protests, and Syria's civil war, Brazil's protests have been slightly over shadowed.  What started as a demonstration against a hike in public transportation's costs turned in to nearly a million people in the streets protesting the government in general.  It is incredible to see these kinds of uprisings occurring around the world.  It is also laughable when the prime minister of Turkey laments that the same forces that caused the rebellion in his country also caused the rebellion in Brazil.  He is correct, just not in the way he assumes.

The prime minister thinks that there is some nefarious plot to create these rebellions, when in reality the similar force that caused both rebellions is suppression from political elites.  The elite in each individual country are taking actions to cause these uprisings and it is only a matter of time before the American people wake up and join the Tea Party and the Occupy movement en masse.

With all of that said, the protests in Brazil have been one of the least violent.  There have been reports of police joining the protestors as well as the government giving in to their demands and lowering the price hike for busses.  So all in all it looks like the people got what they wanted, unlike in Turkey and certainly unlike America.  However whenever you have hundreds of thousands of people in the street there is bound to be some police brutality, I'll leave you with these limited, but impactful impressions of what has been going  on in Brazil over the past couple of weeks.

From The Big Picture: