00:00In Brazil, students are holding protests to oppose the rise of the far right in Rio de Janeiro.
00:05Young people march this Thursday through the streets of the city's northern district to engage with the public.
00:11Details in the following work by Andre Vieira and Sebastian Soto.
00:18Once again, class was held in the streets.
00:21For the fourth day in a row since the first round of elections in Brazil, students in Rio de Janeiro
00:27took to the streets.
00:28This Thursday, they marched through the Villa Isabel neighborhood to express their support for the re-election of president and
00:35candidate Lula da Silva.
00:39Brazilian universities took to the streets because we know what the Bolsonaro administration meant for Brazilian education.
00:44We know the damage caused by the administrations of Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro.
00:53Because most of the people are poor, most of the people are black, and most of the people are women.
01:00Bolsonarism is directly against all of these people, women, black people, and LGBT plus people.
01:07So, taking to the streets is a way of showing that Bolsonaro and the far right won't win so easily.
01:16This Thursday's march set out from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and made its way through the neighborhood
01:22to engage with residents, especially those who did not vote in the first round.
01:27Across the country, more than 33 million voters did not turn out to vote on October 4th.
01:34The importance of this youth revolution is to raise awareness among older people to make them understand that Flavio Bolsonaro
01:41is no good, and that, if we don't fight for this, we'll face a new dictatorship.
01:48The student protest movement, which has taken to the streets in all five regions of the country, is protesting, for
01:56example, the education cuts implemented during the administration of Jair Bolsonaro, father of candidate Flavio Bolsonaro.
02:04In 2022 alone, the last year of the far right administration, nearly 650 million US dollars were cut from the
02:12Ministry of Education's budget.
02:18We are the ones who are losing our rights today. Our universities are being burned down, and we have to
02:23be here, in the streets, fighting for this, fighting for President Lula, who has done so much for us.
02:29And we have to be here alongside all these people from the university, all of us here protesting so that
02:34these fascists don't take power.
02:39Young people also marched in support of the bill submitted to Congress by President Lula's administration, which guarantees at least
02:47two days of rest per week for workers and puts an end to the six-day work week followed by
02:51one day of rest.
02:57Workers already contribute a lot to society. A five-day work week with two days off is the minimum they
03:02should have in terms of quality of life and even the opportunity to participate in politics.
03:07Therefore, I believe that the end of the six-day work week with one day off is a matter of
03:11civilization or barbarism.
03:13It is the absolute minimum in a society where profit is valued more than life. And I choose that life
03:18is worth more than anything else, that there is life beyond work.
03:25Until October 25th, when the second round is scheduled, young people vow to take to the streets and social media
03:32to reverse the result of the first round, which placed the far right in the lead.
03:39André Vieira, Sebastian Soto, Telesur, Brazil.
