Two Continents, One Refrain: What Binds Protest Movements in Brazil and Turkey
There are many similarities between the protests around Gezi Park in Turkey and those of the Free Pass Movement in Brazil.
In both cases, initial demonstrations were small with specific objectives: to save the park and to obtain free public transport, respectively. And discontent in both countries reached a critical mass amid widespread perception that police used excessive violence to disperse the protesters. It was at that moment, on two continents, when tens of thousands of people mobilized in solidarity with the initial dissenters — and not just in Istanbul and Sao Paulo, the cities where the confrontations initially took place.
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