the ex-president bolsonaro ran away from brazil and refused to participate in the ceremony, breaking one of brazil’s democracy’s staple traditions that is to hand the presidential sash to the successor. lula received the presidential sash from individuals representing the brazilian people.

this going to be a long post, but it’s really important for us.

francisco, 10 years old, swimmer of corinthians, a brazilian sports club. he lives in a outskirts of são paulo. after watching a movie about lula, he saw that he could be a president too.

aline sousa, 33 years old, garbage collector since she was 14 and the 3rd generation of collector in the family. aline is a mother of 6 boys and 1 girl, in 2012 she was elected director secretary of the CENTCOOP-DF (a central of work cooperatives of collectors in distrito federal, brasília) and 3 years later the first president of the entity.

chief raoni metuktire, 90 years old, dedicated his life to the defense of the amazon and the peoples of the forest. he is recognized by indigenous and riverside communities as one of the main representatives of the struggle to preserve the forest and the amazonian peoples.

weslley viesba rodrigues rocha, 36 years old, metallurgist from ABC region since he was 18 years old. married and father of two boys, cauã, 18 years old, and apolo, 2 months old. he graduated in Physical Education with the help of fies (a program of the ministry of education for funding the higher education of the undergraduate students). weslley is also a DJ in the rap group ‘falange’. 

murilo de quadros jesus, 28 years old, teacher, graduated in portuguese and english languages (UTFPR) and lives in curitiba.

jucimara fausto dos santos, cook born in palotina. she dedicated her life to cooking and it was in a cooking contest at vigília lula livre (a civil movement supported by several brazilian social movements and union entities to help free lula from the prision) that jucimara was called to make bread. today she cooks for the employees’ association of the state university of maringá.

ivan baron, 24 years old, he’s from rio grande do norte and at the age of 3 had viral meningitis, a disease that caused his cerebral palsy. ivan is a reference in the anti-capacitist struggle and considered one of the ambassadors of inclusion in an exclusionary society and he’s also part of the lgbtqia+ community

flávio pereira, 50 years old, from pinhalão - paraná. he is an artisan and was at the vigília lula livre for 580 days helping with daily activities.

aline sousa passing the sash.

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

The money going into ‘humanitarian relief’ (however much doesn’t go into lining the pockets of US NGOs) will be spent making sure that the newly independent Afghanistan remains subservient to the US. With their own money, Afghanistan could buy tractors. With humanitarian aid, they will get grain.