{"id":29918,"date":"2016-06-22T09:40:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T12:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=29918"},"modified":"2020-09-19T13:41:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T16:41:35","slug":"first-things-first-out-with-the-upp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=29918","title":{"rendered":"First Things First: Out with the UPP!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas\"\"<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For the original article by Gizele Martins\u00a0in Portuguese published on her blog A Mareense\u00a0<\/em>click<\/em> here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Once again, life in Mar\u00e9<\/a> was interrupted. We heard gunshots from dawn onwards on Monday, June 20. We were prevented from circulating our favelas yet another day, and from entering or leaving them.<\/p>\n

In the morning, schools announced there would be no classes as they would be closed. They sent children who were able to reach school back home.<\/p>\n

For yet another day, residents in the Complexo da Mar\u00e9 favelas in the North Zone<\/a> of Rio de Janeiro heard only gunshots. Schools and health clinics remained closed. But life outside the visible and the invisible walls of the favela goes on. Not only does it go on, it makes demands of\u00a0us\u2013demands we\u00a0get to work, to school, to university on time. It demands,\u00a0saying we\u2019re to blame for all this. It demands of\u00a0us and dictates rules, telling us how to think.<\/p>\n

It must be understood that this policy of criminalizing poverty<\/a> is not mine. It\u2019s not the favela\u2019s fault. It is a policy from the top down. Yes, a policy, politics, from the state, from the government, from the priorities that it<\/em> has, to maintain its privileges<\/a> and those of the wealthy few in the nation of Brazil.<\/p>\n

Ironically, we currently have a country shouting \u201cGet out, Temer,\u201d \u201cStay Dilma,\u201d but here in the favelas we continue to shout \u201cGet out BOPE<\/a>,\u201d \u201cGet out UPP<\/a>,\u201d \u201cGet out Army<\/a>,\u201d \u201cDown with the criminalization of poverty,\u201d \u201cDown with the Olympics<\/a>.\u201d In other words, we are still calling for the right to life. Life, a dream yet to be achieved by the poor, black, favela nation.<\/p>\n

We already know why we are treated this way: we are still cheap labor, we are still the slaughterable public. We are still the public that can have the tanks, BOPE, Shock Troops<\/a>, UPP on our doorsteps just because we live in\u00a0these poor, peripheral favelas. There are countless favelas going through this in Rio de Janeiro alone.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no way for me to shout \u201cGet out, Temer,\u201d \u201cStay Dilma.\u201d They don\u2019t represent me. They kill me. They allow the blood of the favela to spill. There\u2019s no way, there\u2019s no way for me to waste time shouting something that doesn\u2019t include me. We already know what the government is interested in. They want mega-events, I want life! It is a struggle that is still very fundamental\u2013it is life!<\/p>\n

I wish I didn’t have to\u00a0see all this, not feel any of this, not wash any more blood, not expose any more of this. But it\u2019s impossible to not see it, it\u2019s impossible to accept it, and it\u2019s impossible to become complacent. We must shout, and keep on shouting: \u201cDown with the militarization of the favelas!\u201d This is the historic chant of the favela nation!<\/p>\n

It is our blood on the ground in exchange for a mega-event!<\/p>\n

The favela resists!<\/p>\n

Gizele Martins is a community journalist\u00a0from the Complexo da Mar\u00e9 favelas.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas For the original article by Gizele Martins\u00a0in Portuguese published on her blog A Mareense\u00a0click here. Once again, life in Mar\u00e9 was interrupted. We heard gunshots from dawn onwards on Monday, June […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":20838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1294,1277,1328,1331,1330,336],"tags":[1162,356,280,1396,2012,1259,918,37,5,1781,15,1011,379,268,1385],"writer":[1842],"translator":[338],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-communitymedia","8":"category-uppwatch","9":"category-by-community-contributors","10":"category-opinion-2","11":"category-translation","12":"category-violations","13":"tag-army-occupation","14":"tag-bope","15":"tag-complexo-da-mare","16":"tag-criminalization-of-poverty","17":"tag-impeachment","18":"tag-mega-events","19":"tag-military-police","20":"tag-north-zone","21":"tag-olympics","22":"tag-opinion-2","23":"tag-pacifying-police-unit","24":"tag-right-to-come-and-go","25":"tag-shock-police","26":"tag-state-violence","27":"tag-violence","28":"writer-gizele-martins","29":"translator-carolyn-oliveira"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29918"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=29918"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=29918"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=29918"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=29918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}