Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's appeal from his conviction for corruption will be before the Regional Federal Court in Port Alegre on January 24. As is clear from articles analyzing Lula's conviction, there is ample reason to claim that that the conviction is purely political in nature and not based on the facts or the law.
Former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, participated this Saturday in the 
inauguration of the football field “Dr. Sócrates Brasileiro” of the National School Florestan Fernandes of the Landless Rural Worker’s Movement (MST) in Guararema, Sao Paulo.
The field is an homage to Socrates, a football player known for opposing the civic-military dictatorship in the country.
Nation-wide protests are taking place to denounce President Temer’s deeply unpopular labor and pension laws
Thousands of Brazilian workers took to the streets on Friday to protest controversial changes to the country’s labor laws, which critics fear will undermine collective bargaining agreements, reduce the power of unions and weaken job security for Brazilian workers.
To the MST leader, foreign capital controls the country after the institutional coup that 
ousted Dilma.
Among the central demands of the Cry of the Excluded were the defense of social security, the annulment of the Labor Reform and the fight against the privatizations of Eletrobras and Petrobras.
A legitimate and peaceful movement, who does the Cry of the Excluded bother? Crying for 
health, education, security, culture, housing, land exposes the mismanagement of public resources and the inequality that plagues the city, state and country.
Thousands of people took to the streets this September 7th under the motto: "For rights and democracy, the struggle is every day"
On this holiday of September 7, popular movements and sectors of the Catholic Church organized the traditional Cry of the Excluded in various cities across the country. In the 23rd edition of the action, the protesters went the streets under the motto: "For rights and democracy, the struggle is every day".
The former President spoke exclusively to Brasil de Fato and said that we need to give hope to the people that a different Brazil is possible
It has been almost a year since the impeachment of Brazil’s former President Dilma Rousseff, 
removed from office for illegally manipulating government accounts.
The Brazilian government prepares to lift mining restrictions on more than 400 national and state parks.
Brazilian social movements criticized plans to expand mining activities on Friday (June 23, 2017) as the government announced new auctioning procedures in order to attract higher levels of investment in the mining sector.
