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🇧🇷 Why is Brazil's left struggling to win over the very people it once helped?
Millions of Brazilians saw their lives transformed under Lula and the Workers' Party. Today, many are drawn to the idea that entrepreneurship and less state intervention can lead to a better life
In 1986, Oprah Winfrey made media history when "came out of the closet" as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.
In 1988, she wheeled 67 pounds of animal fat onto the studio stage to show how much weight she had lost. "If I can do this, you can too."
"Reagan's ideology was based on a kind of simple optimism about individual success. According to Reagan, it was only with a massively scaled-back public sector that ordinary people could finally prosper".
Catherine Liu
Professor of Film and Media Studies at @UCIrvine
Oprah and the Work of Trauma in the Age of Televisual Reproduction: An Excerpt From Catherine Liu's Traumatized
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🇧🇷 Are Lula and the Brazilian left out of dreams to sell?
Brazil's president is running out of time to stop the far right's return to power.
Days before the runoff against Bolsonaro, we ask why Brazil's left is struggling to win over those it once helped
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Through their years in power, the left implemented welfare programs that lifted millions out of poverty, and made investments in public education.
Yet that doesn't seem to be enough
Flávio Bolsonaro's promises:
- Slash red tape.
- Curb public spending.
- Take a tough stance on crime.
His campaign seems tailored to speak to the underdog entrepreneur.
📸Ricardo Stuckert
Read the full story by @VictorLacombe at the link below ⬇️
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For The Polis Project, Brazilian reporter @VictorLacombe looks at why the left is running out of new dreams to sell, and what this means for Brazil's political future.
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The state sold faith in the system. @jyotiyadaav uncovered the fury.
During COVID, promises were plastered on walls. But the suffering was lived way far from the headlines.
What fuels this fury?
In her book "Faith and Fury", award-winning journalist Jyoti Yadav reports from rural India, exposing the gap between official promises and people's realities.
From our latest Book Salon, in conversation with @amuralidharan93.
Watch the full interview👇
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Nobel Peace Prize nominee @MahrangBaloch_, who fought enforced disappearances in Pakistan with @BalochYakjehtiC, was recently sentenced to life in prison. Her arrest wasn't an isolated incident.
🔗 Read the story by @HazaranRahim and @sommulbaloch here: thepolisproject.com/read/bal……
Nobel Peace Prize nominee @MahrangBaloch_, who fought enforced disappearances in Pakistan with @BalochYakjehtiC, was recently sentenced to life in prison. Her arrest wasn't an isolated incident.
🔗 Read the story by @HazaranRahim and @sommulbaloch here: thepolisproject.com/read/bal…
Nobel Peace Prize nominee @MahrangBaloch_, who fought enforced disappearances in Pakistan with @BalochYakjehtiC, was recently sentenced to life in prison. Her arrest wasn't an isolated incident.
🔗 Read the story by @HazaranRahim and @sommulbaloch here: thepolisproject.com/read/bal…
Would you consider your marriage cruel if your husband did any of these things?
Tell us in the comments.
And read this piece on how a country's Supreme Court is redefining cruelty in marriage (and what that means in practice): thepolisproject.com/read/pak…
Ahead of tomorrow's International Day for the Eradication of Poverty:
We revisit an earlier conversation with Delhi-based journalist @Sagar_reporter on how the media only notices the poor when people die, and how poverty puts justice out of reach.
👉🔗 thepolisproject.com/read/rep…
"Marry me to anyone."
They crossed regions to marry men they barely knew. Then they built their own newsroom.
Meet Paro Voice, where Paro women go from being spoken about to speaking for themselves.
✍️@chauhananjali98
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See you in an hour!
TODAY
New York: 9:00 AM
London: 2:00 PM
Delhi: 6:30 PM
Award-winning journalist @jyotiyadaav in conversation with @amuralidharan93 about the book 'Faith and Fury: COVID Dispatches from India's Hinterlands.'
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