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The State has never been present in an effective way in the favelas, has never showed an interest in their development. Open sewage, lack of adequate housing, general difficulties of diverse sorts, in addition to terrible education have always guaranteed easy votes. In this so-called democracy, what is advertised as \u201cthe weapon of the poor,\u201d the vote, when not violated, is given willingly through the promise of some \u201ccure\u201d for a seemingly timely demand (vote buying). This democracy where voting is an obligation.<\/p>\n
Guided purely by capitalism, partisan politicians use public resources as if they were property of the state, forgetting that the State is not a ‘someone’ who can own property, but that it is comprised of administrative divisions which belong to all citizens. Following this misunderstanding of the State as an individual, top-down \u201cpublic policies\u201d are created which have no meaningful connection to reality. Take the favelas, where there is no popular participation in the development of policies which will directly affect people\u2019s day-to-day life; a perfect example of which is the public security policy of the Pacifying Police Unit (UPPs)<\/a>.<\/p>\n As is common when speaking against the UPP, we are accused of being defenders of drug traffickers, and much worse\u2026 The real questions are very simple: How has the drug traffic come to exist? And how has it become so financially powerful? How do drugs and arms get into the favelas<\/a>? A lot of people in suits are getting rich with this!<\/p>\n Beyond putting a stop to the drug traffic (and knowing that this is very lucrative for specific politicians and oligopolies), it is important to work at the foundation, improve education, respect human rights<\/a> and look after our children, in order to break the traffic at its roots. However, to be represented by the State, in the \u201cdemocracy\u201d we live in, means precisely to strengthen the cycle of dependency and survival which leads our young people to choose the path of crime, of which there is frequently no return.<\/p>\n The UPP is nothing! It is not this marketing policy of \u201cPacification\u201d that will block the diverse entry points which lead a young dreamer to set foot in a risky life. No one dreams of becoming a drug trafficker! No mother wants to bury her son! We can no longer accept empty discourses which circle around superficiality.<\/p>\n We have prisons that dehumanize, treat people as animals, teach them not to feel. Places that should be for recuperation, but end up doing the opposite. We have a society that only uses the word \u2018miscegenation\u2019 to seem interesting. For prejudice is alive and kicking everywhere. Particularly with ex-convicts.<\/p>\n The UPP is no more than a re-election policy, created with no interest in the well-being of the favela population. It is merely the arm of the State which functions to \u201ckeep order,\u201d which is very different from the discourse of \u201cbringing peace.\u201d<\/p>\n Peace without voice is not peace, it\u2019s FEAR. — Marcelo Yuka<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The UPP is like George Orwell\u2019s 1984, like the \u201cbig brother\u201d fencing us in on all sides. The police are defenders of the “State as someone,\u201d carrying out orders to defend it, even when the State totally violates citizen rights. Not only in the favelas, but also in the protests<\/a>. It has historically been like this!<\/p>\n Annulling Resolution 013<\/a> informally is easy. To pacify in propaganda, even more so. What is difficult to forget is what is tattooed onto people\u2019s retinas: hatred exercised by police towards the favela population through abuse, arbitrariness, disrespect, violations, aggression and assassinations<\/a>. The UPP pacification is only containment of the popular classes and armed authoritarianism! An unacceptable policy!<\/p>\n Proudhon\u2019s interpretation is very interesting: government of man by man is servitude. \u201cTo be governed is to be inspected, spied on, directed, legislated, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue\u2026 To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”<\/p>\n For the demilitarization of the Military Police! — By Raull Santiago, from the \u00a0Occupy Alemao Collective (Ocupa Alem\u00e3o)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Learn more about Ocupa Alem\u00e3o here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/prender.jpg\" "\\"\"You")
<\/a>When the UPP arrives in the favelas<\/a>, it becomes a reference, example of monopoly, a bull-dozing intervention which proposes the \u201cState as someone\u201d in the area: complete and authoritative territorial control. An example of this is how a security institution becomes the main channel of mediation between the state and the demands from the favela, even more so, it is entrusted with making decisions over art and culture. That is truly surreal!<\/p>\n
\n The State that kills – never again!<\/a><\/p>\n