{"id":65878,"date":"2021-05-27T10:34:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=65878"},"modified":"2021-05-29T11:17:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T14:17:21","slug":"the-black-population-demands-to-live-black-coalition-stages-the-may-13-of-struggles-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=65878","title":{"rendered":"Brazil’s Black Population Demands to Live! Black Coalition Stages ‘May 13 of Struggles’ Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Black Coalition for Rights organizes the “May 13 of Struggles” protest against black genocide and demands justice for the Jacarezinho massacre.<\/h4>\n

Neither the rain or cold, nor the pandemic<\/a>, kept people from taking the streets of Rio de Janeiro<\/a> and of 40 other Brazilian cities<\/a> on Wednesday, May 13 to protest racism and the genocide of black Brazilians<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The protest, organized by the Black Coalition for Rights<\/a>\u2014a national alliance made up of over 200 organizations, initiatives, groups and collectives from the Brazilian Black Movement\u2014took demonstrators to the streets wearing face masks and guided by the motto: \u201cNot from Gunshots, Covid or Hunger! Black People Want to Live!<\/a>\u201d underlining the complaint contained in the Coalition\u2019s manifesto: \u201cWe denounce to the world that we live in a country where we may be dead tomorrow because we are black.\u201d<\/p>\n

In all, there were 41 demonstrations in Brazil and three abroad<\/a>, with one in London<\/a> and two in the United States<\/a>, in the cities of New York<\/a> and Austin. The name “May 13 of Struggles<\/a>” alludes to the end of slavery in Brazil which took place on May 13, 1888.<\/p>\n

Among the movement\u2019s revindications<\/a>\u00a0are the guarantee of an emergency aid payment of R$600 (US$113) until the end of the pandemic; the black population\u2019s right to the coronavirus<\/a> vaccine and to be properly assisted by the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS<\/a>); and in favor of Jair Bolsonaro<\/a> stepping down from the presidency.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Tatiane Mendes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The protest, also called #May13IntheStreets<\/a>, was a reaction to the atrocities committed during the police raid which resulted in this month’s #Jacarezinho Massacre<\/a>, the most lethal in the history of the city of Rio<\/a>, and which culminated in 29 deaths: 28 civilians and one police officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur children have been spinelessly murdered in the favelas. They are chased, arrested, shot in the back, and killed while unarmed, like my son Johnatha, killed by a police officer from the UPP<\/a> (Pacifying Police Unit). It\u2019ll be seven years tomorrow [May 14]. This proves there was no abolition. What is this freedom we have, that kills us? This abolition is fake! And it\u2019s not just the police! The entire legal system has the deaths of our children on the tip of their pens. But our dead have a voice. Our children have mothers,\u201d roared Ana Paula de Oliveira, from the collective Mothers from Manguinhos<\/a>, a movement that brings together mothers of victims of violence perpetrated by the State of Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Mauro Pimentel \/ AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Brazil, every 23 minutes, a young <\/a>black <\/a>man<\/a> is murdered. The victims of police violence in Rio de Janeiro are overwhelmingly black. Of the 885 civilians killed by police in Rio in the first half of 2019, 80% were black or brown<\/a>. 133 years after the abolition of slavery<\/a>, the black population is still the target of police violence and experiences the effects of structural racism.<\/p>\n

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A #ChacinanoJacarezinho<\/a> trouxe o fim de 28 pessoas e todos merecem serem lembrados, todos!! Pois todos s\u00e3o seres humanos e eles tem nome e sobrenome!! @coalizaonegra<\/a> #13deMaioNasRuas<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/okg0CLzK9F<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Monica Cunha (@monicacunhario) May 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n