Wearing yellow T-shirts and carrying flags of Brazil and Israel, they arrived at the rally in buses with license plates from outside of the city as well as other states.
Each cross bears the name of one of the people killed in the collapse of Dam I (B1). The rupture caused the collapse of two other dams (B-IV and B-IV-A) at the same mine.
On the promenade of Rio’s Copacabana Beach, 164 pairs of women’s shoes laid out side by side represented the victims of femicide. In the state of Rio de Janeiro, cases totaled 111 in 2022 and 53 in the first half of this year.
The rallies were organized by environmental institutions and organizations and drove hundreds of people to Paulista avenue, in São Paulo’s business center downtown. They marched in protest of the 1988 time limit and called for solutions to the climate crisis.
The measure meets the request of the government’s attorney general Jorge Messias, who requested action in the face of the call for acts of coup across the country.
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