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mcmansionhell · 4 years

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Coronagrifting: A Design Phenomenon

We now interrupt our regularly scheduled content to bring you a critical essay on the design world. I promise you that this will also be funny.

This morning, the design website Dezeen tweeted a link to one of its articles, depicting a plexiglass coronavirus shield that could be suspended above dining areas, with the caption “Reader comment: ‘Dezeen, please stop promoting this stupidity.��”

This, of course, filled many design people, including myself, with a kind of malicious glee. The tweet seemed to show that the website’s editorial (or at least social media) staff retained within themselves a scintilla of self-awareness regarding the spread a new kind of virus in its own right: cheap mockups of COVID-related design “solutions” filling the endlessly scrollable feeds of PR-beholden design websites such as Dezeen, ArchDaily, and designboom. I call this phenomenon: Coronagrifting.

I’ll go into detail about what I mean by this, but first, I would like to presenet some (highly condensed) history.

From Paper Architecture to PR-chitecture

Back in the headier days of architecture in the 1960s and 70s, a number of architectural avant gardes (such as Superstudio and Archizoom in Italy and Archigram in the UK) ceased producing, well, buildings, in favor of what critics came to regard as “paper architecture.” This “paper architecture” included everything from sprawling diagrams of megastructures, including cities that “walked” or “never stopped” - to playfully erotic collages involving Chicago’s Marina City. Occasionally, these theoretical and aesthetic explorations were accompanied by real-world productions of “anti-design” furniture that may or may not have involved foam fingers.

Archigram’s Walking City (1964). Source.

Paper architecture, of course, still exists, but its original radical, critical, playful, (and, yes, even erotic) elements were shed when the last of the ultra-modernists were swallowed up by the emerging aesthetic hegemony of Postmodernism (which was much less invested in theoretical and aesthetic futurism) in the early 1980s. What remained were merely images, the production and consumption of which has only increased as the design world shifted away from print and towards the rapidly produced, easily digestible content of the internet and social media.

Architect Bjarke Ingels’s “Oceanix” - a mockup of an ecomodernist, luxury city designed in response to rising sea levels from climate change. The city will never be built, and its critical interrogation amounts only to “city with solar panels that floats bc climate change is Serious” - but it did get Ingels and his firm, BIG, a TED talk and circulation on all of the hottest blogs and websites. Meanwhile, Ingels has been in business talks with the right-wing climate change denialist president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. (Image via designboom)

Design websites are increasingly dominated by text and mockups from the desks of a firm’s public relations departments, facilitating a transition from the paper-architecture-imaginary to what I have begun calling “PR-chitecture.” In short, PR-chitecture is architecture and design content that has been dreamed up from scratch to look good on instagram feeds or, more simply, for clicks. It is only within this substance-less, critically lapsed media landscape that Coronagrifting can prosper.

Coronagrifting: An Evolution

As of this writing, the two greatest offenders of Coronagrifting are Dezeen, which has devoted an entire section of its website to the virus (itself offering twelve pages of content since February alone) and designboom, whose coronavirus tag contains no fewer than 159 articles.

Certainly, a small handful of these stories demonstrate useful solutions to COVID-related problems (such as this one from designboom about a student who created a mask prototype that would allow D/deaf and hard of hearing people to read lips) most of the prototypes and the articles about them are, for a lack of a better word, insipid.

But where, you may ask, did it all start?

One of the easiest (and, therefore, one of the earliest) Coronagrifts involves “new innovative, health-centric designs tackling problems at the intersection of wearables and personal mobility,” which is PR-chitecture speak for “body shields and masks.”

Wearables and Post-ables

The first example came from Chinese architect Sun Dayong, back at the end of February 2020, when the virus was still isolated in China. Dayong submitted to Dezeen a prototype of a full mask and body-shield that “would protect a wearer during a coronavirus outbreak by using UV light to sterilise itself.” The project was titled “Be a Bat Man.” No, I am not making this up.

Screenshot of Dayong’s “Be a Batman” as seen on the Dezeen website.

Soon after, every artist, architect, designer, and sharp-eyed PR rep at firms and companies only tangentially related to design realized that, with the small investment of a Photoshop mockup and some B-minus marketing text, they too could end up on the front page of these websites boasting a large social media following and an air of legitimacy in the field.

By April, companies like Apple and Nike were promising the use of existing facilities for producing or supplying an arms race’s worth of slick-tech face coverings. Starchitecture’s perennial PR-churners like Foster + Partners and Bjarke Ingels were repping “3D-printed face shields”, while other, lesser firms promised wearable vaporware like “grapheme filters,” branded “skincare LED masks for encouraging self-development” and “solar powered bubble shields.”

While the mask Coronagrift continues to this day, the Coronagrifting phenomenon had, by early March, moved to other domains of design.

Consider the barrage of asinine PR fluff that is the “Public Service Announcement” and by Public Service Announcement, I mean “A Designer Has Done Something Cute to Capitalize on Information Meant to Save Lives.”

Some of the earliest offenders include cutesy posters featuring flags in the shape of houses, ostensibly encouraging people to “stay home;” a designer building a pyramid out of pillows ostensibly encouraging people to “stay home”; and Banksy making “lockdown artwork” that involved covering his bathroom in images of rats ostensibly encouraging people to “stay home.”

Lol. Screenshot from Dezeen.

You may be asking, “What’s the harm in all this, really, if it projects a good message?” And the answer is that people are plenty well encouraged to stay home due to the rampant spread of a deadly virus at the urging of the world’s health authorities, and that these tone-deaf art world creeps are using such a crisis for shameless self promotion and the generation of clicks and income, while providing little to no material benefit to those at risk and on the frontlines.

Of course, like the mask coronagrift, the Public Service Announcement coronagrift continues to this very day.

The final iteration of Post-able and Wearable Coronagrifting genres are what I call “Passive Aggressive Social Distancing Initiatives” or PASDIs. Many of the first PASDIs were themselves PSAs and art grifts, my favorite of which being the designboom post titled “social distancing applied to iconic album covers like the beatle’s abbey road.” As you can see, we’re dealing with extremely deep stuff here.

However, an even earlier and, in many ways more prescient and lucrative grift involves “social distancing wearables.” This can easily be summarized by the first example of this phenomenon, published March 19th, 2020 on designboom:

Never wasting a single moment to capitalize on collective despair, all manner of brands have seized on the social distancing wearable trend, which, again, can best be seen in the last example of the phenomenon, published May 22nd, 2020 on designboom:

We truly, truly live in Hell.

Which brings us, of course, to living.

“Architectural Interventions” for a “Post-COVID World”

As soon as it became clear around late March and early April that the coronavirus (and its implications) would be sticking around longer than a few months, the architectural solutions to the problem came pouring in. These, like the virus itself, started at the scale of the individual and have since grown to the scale of the city. (Whether or not they will soon encompass the entire world remains to be seen.)

The architectural Coronagrift began with accessories (like the designboom article about 3D-printed door-openers that enable one to open a door with one’s elbow, and the Dezeen article about a different 3D-printed door-opener that enables one to open a door with one’s elbow) which, in turn, evolved into “work from home” furniture (”Stykka designs cardboard #StayTheF***Home Desk for people working from home during self-isolation”) which, in turn, evolved into pop-up vaporware architecture for first responders (”opposite office proposes to turn berlin's brandenburg airport into COVID-19 'superhospital'”), which, in turn evolved into proposals for entire buildings (”studio prototype designs prefabricated 'vital house' to combat COVID-19″); which, finally, in turn evolved into “urban solutions” aimed at changing the city itself (a great article summarizing and criticizing said urban solutions was recently written by Curbed’s Alissa Walker).

There is something truly chilling about an architecture firm, in order to profit from attention seized by a global pandemic, logging on to their computers, opening photoshop, and drafting up some lazy, ineffectual, unsanitary mockup featuring figures in hazmat suits carrying a dying patient (macabrely set in an unfinished airport construction site) as a real, tangible solution to the problem of overcrowded hospitals; submitting it to their PR desk for copy, and sending it out to blogs and websites for clicks, knowing full well that the sole purpose of doing so consists of the hope that maybe someone with lots of money looking to commission health-related interiors will remember that one time there was a glossy airport hospital rendering on designboom and hire them.

Enough, already.

Frankly, after an endless barrage of cyberpunk mask designs, social distancing burger king crowns, foot-triggered crosswalk beg buttons that completely ignore accessibility concerns such as those of wheelchair users, cutesy “stay home uwu” projects from well-to-do art celebrities (who are certainly not suffering too greatly from the economic ramifications of this pandemic), I, like the reader featured in the Dezeen Tweet at the beginning of this post, have simply had enough of this bullshit.

What’s most astounding to me about all of this (but especially about #brand crap like the burger king crowns) is that it is taken completely seriously by design establishments that, despite being under the purview of PR firms, should frankly know better. I’m sure that Bjarke Ingels and Burger King aren’t nearly as affected by the pandemic as those who have lost money, jobs, stability, homes, and even their lives at the hands of COVID-19 and the criminally inept national and international response to it. On the other hand, I’m sure that architects and designers are hard up for cash at a time when nobody is building and buying anything, and, as a result, many see resulting to PR-chitecture as one of the only solutions to financial problems.

However, I’m also extremely sure that there are interventions that can be made at the social, political, and organizational level, such as campaigning for paid sick leave, organizing against layoffs and for decent severance or an expansion of public assistance, or generally fighting the rapidly accelerating encroachment of work into all aspects of everyday life – that would bring much more good and, dare I say, progress into the world than a cardboard desk captioned with the hashtag #StaytheF***Home.

Hence, I’ve spent most of my Saturday penning this article on my blog, McMansion Hell. I’ve chosen to run this here because I myself have lost work as a freelance writer, and the gutting of publications down to a handful of editors means that, were I to publish this story on another platform, it would have resulted in at least a few more weeks worth of inflatable, wearable, plexiglass-laden Coronagrifting, something my sanity simply can no longer withstand.

So please, Dezeen, designboom, others – I love that you keep daily tabs on what architects and designers are up to, a resource myself and other critics and design writers find invaluable – however, I am begging, begging you to start having some discretion with regards to the proposals submitted to you as “news” or “solutions” by brands and firms, and the cynical, ulterior motives behind them. If you’re looking for a guide on how to screen such content, please scroll up to the beginning of this page.

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#architecture #design #coronavirus #dezeen #designboom #capitalism

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hummussexual · 2 years

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By Angely Mercado

Grammy- and Latin Grammy-winning Puerto Rican rapper Residente’s latest song, “This is Not America,’’ is an anthem for people who understand that imperialism and forced immigration cannot be separated from environmental issues.

Both social and environmental crises are shown in bloody realism throughout the music video, currently trending at #11 for music on YouTube. “This is Not America,’’ featuring Afro-French Cuban duo Ibeyi, takes aim at police brutality as well as pollution from environmentally extractive industries that force Latin America’s Indigenous communities from their ancestral lands.

“Aquí estamos, siempre estamos. No nos fuimos, no nos vamos. Aquí estamos pa’ que te recuerdes. Si quieres, mi machete te muerde,” the chorus says. “Here we are, always are. We haven’t left, we won’t leave. Here we are, so that you can remember. And if you want, my machete will bite you.”

Many of Residente’s anti-imperialist songs mention machetes, perhaps a connection to his constant critique of Puerto Rico’s status as a U.S. colony, something he discussed in interviews following Hurricane Maria in 2017. His music is a reminder that having a Caribbean identity, having a Latin American identity, comes with a lot of baggage.

“Desde hace rato, cuando ustedes llegaron, ya estaban las huellas de nuestros zapatos,” Residente raps. “For a while before you arrived, the footprint of our shoes were already here.”

“America isn’t just the USA papá, it’s from Tierra del Fuego to Canadá.”

The video opens with an ode to Lolita Lebrón, a member of the Puerto Rican nationalist party who shot a pistol during a House of Representatives chamber meeting on March 1, 1954, alongside other nationalists calling for Puerto Rican independence. Her attack on the governing body came just a few years after the El Grito de Jayuya, or the Jayuya uprising of 1950, a revolt against U.S. imperialism in the town of Jayuya and in several other towns across the island. The deceased Lebrón is now a leftist hero.

In the video, an actress representing Lebrón shoots into the air, and nearby police officers start running toward her.

What follows are scenes of protests against heavily armed police, people forcibly separated (including a mother breastfeeding her child through a fence), and what look like students lined up with bullet holes in their heads. The backdrop features bomba beats, an Afro-Puerto Rican style of music that often symbolizes resistance against oppression and was a powerful tool for expression during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.

In one scene, an Indigenous child sits on a tower of McDonalds-style fast food containers; other shots show Indigenous children on piles of disposable coffee cups and Amazon packages. A man with Eurocentric features in a suit is eating steak with a glass of red wine. After taking a bite, he turns to wipe his face with a large Brazilian flag as another Indigenous child looks on.

The steak-and-flag scene is the video’s least subtle reference to climate justice and Indigenous rights. I interpreted it as a nod to the socially and environmentally destructive policies of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. When the man wiped his face, I thought for a moment that I was looking at Bolsonaro himself.

Under Bolsonaro’s leadership, millions of acres of the Amazon rainforest have been set on fire and illegally cleared for cattle and crops—top export products for the country—in just a handful of years. Indigenous forest defenders and allies who work with them are often displaced and even murdered so that there can be more land for agricultural production. In 2021, the Brazilian Senate committee created a draft accusing Bolsonaro of crimes against humanity, including genocide. He’s made it clear time and time again that it doesn’t matter if people are displaced and the environment destroyed, as long as industries turn a profit.

“This Is Not America” is an impactful and graphic condemnation of unfettered corporate greed and the cruelty of those in power. It’s also a warning that many of the victims of are fighting back.

Residente reminds us that there are casualties from modern imperialism. Just because it doesn’t look like ships arriving on the shores of a supposedly undiscovered land, doesn’t mean that imperialism is a thing of the past. Residente tells us that it happened then, and it’s happening now.

The U.S. and other wealthy nations outsource our trash and our pollution to vulnerable communities. The long-lasting devastation that ensues is easier to ignore if we don’t know where the bodies are—and this video aims to put those corpses front and center. It ends with bodies being laid out to form the word “America.”

#Residente #ibeyi #This is Not America #tw: violence #imperialism #global warming #climate change #capitalism #politics #موسيقى #Youtube

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pretoriafics · 3 years

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This is my protest #forabolsonaro

Probably you heard about what is happening in Brazil.

Yeah, it's chaotic. We got the biggest healthcare system ever, it's a worldwide reference (find out about our SUS system here on Wikipedia). We could vaccinate more people than we are vaccinating right now. We had all the weapons to be the country that better deal with the pandemic.

However, Bolsonaro happens.

Jair Bolsonaro's government ignored vaccines more than ten times (read about it here by Global News). I'm not kidding. The government also made advertisements to encourage people to not accomplish social distancing (the social media campaign "Brazil's can't stop"). Our state governments are constantly fighting against the feds because they want to do lockdowns. However, Bolsonaro is doing everything he can to avoid state governments making it. Bolsonaro even manifesting himself against mask use.

Brazil is well-known for its diplomacy. However, Bolsonaro's government accomplish to ruin it. China is one of our most important business partners. Seems like Bolsonaro doesn't mind about it because he, his employees, and his family made so many xenophobic comments that our country found issues to deal with public health. It made it hard to negotiate with China, which sends us supplies to take care of the health of our people (Read about that xenophobia here by CNN). This situation made a huge crisis in the public healthcare system in Manaus, a city in the Amazonas' state. People literally had suffocated to death (read about it on Washington Post).

Man, I'm not kidding. Manaus got 76% of its population infected by the Corona Virus. The result of it? A new variant of the virus.

"But, girl, why your crazy President is doing such a crazy thing?" Oh, dear gringo (gringo it's a Brazilian slang used to refer to foreign people) I'll tell you why he is doing it.

A few months ago, research was made by a Brazilian university. This research was truly pointing that Bolsonaro's plan was making the Brazilian population got immunity by natural infection to Coronavirus. That's why he was made, and it's still doing, the possible and the impossible to get my people exposed to the virus. You can find out more details about it in the link I left at the end of this text.

Deaths? Oh, who needed to die will die, dear. The government has planned 1.4 million deaths in Brazil. We're reached 450.000. Have you got the idea that, for the Brazilian government, they're still far away from their goal?

This is a trending topic on Twitter saying "Get out Genocidal Bolsonaro"

I'm not kidding, fella. We were capable to be one of the firsts countries to start vaccinating. Do you understand that there buried people who could be with their families now? Do you understand how many children would still have parents?

The people who are dying now shouldn't be dying. They could be safe. They could be saved.

But today, I'm a proud Brazilian.

My people arouse to defend and fight for our homeland and for our people. Protests all around the country were made yesterday to put down this genocidal president. We want vaccines. We want our loved ones safe. We want a fair leader.

I know you're probably was vaccinated. I mean, where are you from? The USA? The United Kingdom? Canada? India? Japan? Australia? Who knows?

I know you're probably don't mind about a South American emergent country. You're probably vaccinated and safe and sound. My people are not. We're still living as if there's no vaccine at all. I envy you, I really do. I just want my life back. I just want to feel safe again.

Thousand of people are dying here. I could be the next, and if I was, no one would care. This is how things are now: I would be just a number. Just one more in 450 thousand deaths, just one more person who died without assistance. Without help.

Brazil is lonely now. We usually said that our flag was kidnapped by bolsonarists, but no. There's no just our flag: Our people were kidnapped by a psycho.

And we know that no one will rescue us.

You guys know me by Pretoria, the fic writer. Today, I was simply Jeanny, a 22 years old Brazilian who wants to be saved, and this is my manifest for better days.

Get to know about Brazil crisis in The New York Times, written by a Brazilian.

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ellethakallabeth · 4 years

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There's much to be said about what's going on Bolivia, and I'll say it in English. Everyone who I speak Spanish with already knows my stance on this, it would be redundant to repeat myself to them.

I have taken a look what news sites such as BBC News, The Guardian, de Volkskrant, and the New York Times have to say about the situation. They all say something along the lines of 'disputed leader steps down over protests following doubtful election results'. This is not due to ignorance, though I'd wish it would be so. This is at best wilfully ignoring the truth and at worst an unspoken decision to push a false understanding of the events that have transpired. These articles distort the truth to make it seem like it's all a democratic discussion, when it the furthest thing from that.

What transpired was a military coup. The results of the elections were not 'fraudulent' due to him winning by decimals of a point. To win, you already need a 10% difference. Say that he didn't have those decimals, it would still be a 9,90% difference. The people did speak. If the opposition were seeking a democratic government, Evo Morales' call to elections while resigning would've been accepted. It wasn't, however, because a democratic election is not what they are after.

To know what they are after, one has to look at who they are. They are the conservative right, the religious power that takes down the country's flag and places a Bible over it, the businessmen looking to exploit the country's gas reserves no matter the cost, the kind that lost power when Evo's policies brought millions out of poverty, provided services to the people and recognised the history and struggles of their indigenous citizens. The opposition is the ones we've always known, in all of Latin America, to be just waiting for the chance to take over again. We know them well, we've been ruled by them many times. Each time, they've gutted our societies and left us impoverished at the best of times. Dead, tortured and disappeared at the worst.

The opposition is the one calling to 'hunt down' the elected leaders of Morales' party. From Mayors to Ministers. The opposition is the ones who burned down the house of Morales' sister, who broke into his home in an attempt to illegally detain him. The opposition is the ones who dragged out a mayor and doused her in red paint and beat her through the streets. We know these people, this fascist right that all of Latin America fights. You can see it in Piñera, you can see it in Bolsonaro and Macri, and now you see it in Mesa and Camacho.

The country's armed forces didn't suggest to Evo to resign to maintain the peace, though that is how it's worded. Is anyone naïve enough to think that they would come out and tell him to resign or they would take action? To give up power or they'd take it from him by force? Refusing to stop 'protesters' who dragged out and brutalised elected officials is already twisting his arm. This was a coup, and to deny it is irresponsible and blind. Now you can see the police officers cutting off the flag of the indigenous nations, calling for a 'true' Bolivia. It's clear in their actions what kind of a government this dictatorship will be.

This is a sad day for Latin America, my heart goes out to the people of Bolivia. All my support to Evo, one of the best leaders we've had.

"The only country that doesn't need to worry about a coup is the United States, this is because the United States does not have a US embassy" - Evo Morales

#bolivia #evo morales #politics

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ren-nolasco · 6 years

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A piece for the #EleNao #EleNunca (#NotHim #NeverHim) women’s movement against Brazil’s presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro.

Since Dilma Rousseff, our first woman president, was the victim of a right-wing coup, Brazil is going through a sensitive yet aggressive change. We had a military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985, then a left-center democratical leadership for over 12 years, and we may be on edge of being taken by the militaries again. Bolsonaro is ahead in the pools and it’s the military candidate. To the families that until today claim for an inspection of the dictatorial period to be able to bury their loved ones remains, he has said that “who look for bones are dogs.” He has also said that “none of his sons would marry a black woman because they were well-raised”, and during an argument with a congresswoman, that he “only didn’t rape her because she didn’t deserve”. Bolsonaro is openly against minorities, having stated that LGBT children should have been beaten more and that he doesn’t see a problem in women being paid less than men. Voting “yes” to Dilma Rusself impeachment, he dedicated his words to the Colonel who tortured her during the dictatorial period (among other methods, Colonel Ustra in troduced living rats in her vagina. Dilma was one of the many brave woman who fought against the militaries in the 60′ and 80′). Also, his biggest flag is to take down Brazil’s gun control laws.

This man has a real and scary change to be Brazil’s next president. He’s ahead in all the pools, but also has the biggest rejection of all canditates, mainly among women. So, we’re speaking out. Not him. Never him.

#jair bolsonaro #eleicoes 2018 #brazil #eleições presidenciais #elenao #my art

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lisinfleur · 4 years

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Normal flu kills more than this new one. Subways are crowded, BRT are crowded, train, funk parties etc etc, why a walk against corruption is forbidden? The president is blamed by everything. If it rains is his fault, if its sun it's his fault. What did you want him to do? Send people home? He is not disgusted by poor people as Pt and Psol robbers are. Stop being manipulated, stealers are without public money, traffickers pissed, yet people get lied to and believe. Pure doctrinally.

AND STOP WATCHING GLOBOLIXO, you're smarter than trust a television channel that stole billions!!!! First of all, Sars-COV-2 (which is this coronavirus, that’s not the first of the class corona we have ever seen, btw) is a new disease. Let me tell you how you make statistics, love (no irony included here ok?): Normal flu is here for years. Covid-19 just arrived and we already have the great majority of the countries in the world being affected with crescent numbers of infected people and dead people around. Normal flu comes and goes. Normal flu is treatable and we know how to do it. Covid-19 is killing crowds and we don’t even know what to give to its patients so, I think normal flu is not the moment thing to be worried about uh?Second, I don’t watch Globo cause I don’t even have a television in my house. It’s not something interesting for me: it stopped being when I started to get informed by myself using the internet and other sources of information - usually, not Brazillian, btw. The reference graphic is really coming from Globo because it’s all over the internet, but you can find other sources of information if you want and if you don’t want to go for the press - which is a good idea, btw - try to talk with people around the country and you’ll see how many cases are being undercovered by the Healthy Ministery in order to keep the numbers low.

But that’s not a thing, right?

Well, BRT, subway, train, are crowded indeed - because people have to work. And they shouldn’t be, btw, but they are because the government still didn’t take all the measurements necessary to keep the majority of the population isolated and avoid this kind of overloading, but in this case, we have to wait. It’s not possible to stop the country at once indeed. But funk parties, clubs, bares, restaurants, AND A STUPID WALK, IN CROWDS, FOR ANY REASON, are all the same for me: stupid people not respecting the quarantine period and going out for reasons that don’t worth the lives they’re risking. Want to make something against corruption, go to your window, put a plaque, scream, hit your pans, go to the sites of public research and vote against the corrupt politicians’ projects, think properly instead of voting like shit, study and speak with the people you love to teach them how to vote instead of reelecting the same corrupt people for a bag of basic food every four years... Do not go outside with hundreds of people against the law to speak against the ones who are committing crimes. That’s counter-productive, dude. You guys were breaking the decrees against agglomerations - a.k.a. going against the LAW - risking dozens of citizens just to yell words like “AI-5″ or “Military intervention, please”?? What the fuck!

Go home and study some history about the military dictatorship in Brazil and how awful it was for you guys to be asking it to come back! This is not “a walk against corruption” this is just something stupid. At all.

In one thing we agree, my friend. PT, PSOL, P-whateveritis, they’re ALL flour of the same sack of dirt: the politics in Brazil are full of shit, bribe, assholes, and motherfuckers who aren’t really giving a damn if you’re outside risking your life to catch coronavirus, spread it all around and yell some words of order. Just like Lula, Bolsonaro, Maia, Olavo de Carvalho, Dilma, all of them should be locked behind bars, getting rotten, and setting our country free.

We agree that our country is rotten to the core and that something NEEDS to change. But Bolsonaro is not different from them - Lula is outside thanks to his fear to have his son in jail because of the second instance shit. His sons are sunk to the neck in dirt and he, himself, did nothing as a deputy such as he’s doing nothing but go against the medical recommendation of isolation to spread the virus to which he can be an asymptomatic transmitter all over his people. He’s irresponsible and did nothing really good since he was elected and I don’t really think he has mental conditions to do anything good for us at all.

Once again: all flour of the same sack.

Yes, I wanted him to send people home. It would have been sensate and I would have supported his decision if he had come out to the social media and even the mainstream media to speak to his people and tell them to stay home, or even to make the protest they wanted from home, to yell from their windows, to extend Brazil flags like mantles over their houses, BUT AT HOME. It would have been the right decision for a leader who knows we live in a continental country with millions of people that will soon be the victim of his ignorance.

Coronavirus is not Bolsonaro’s fault - it would be stupid to blame him for this. But all the people who contracted it during those manifestations are sick because of him. And all the people who will contract this virus from the ones who were outside that day, are his fault. Because he doesn’t speak like a leader. He doesn’t care about his people. And THAT’S his problem for me. I wouldn’t mind living in a country where I’m not a supporter of my president, my friend. I’m not a crybaby who cannot accept someone I don’t like ruling my country. But this man is not a leader not even for you guys. He doesn’t represent even the people who follow him. I’m not the onde being manipulated in here.I hope you read this to the end. It was not a rant, it was really an answer and I really wish more people could try to get informed or understand that we against him, at least ME against him is not Lis who dislikes Bolsonaro or PTista Lis. Far from me. It’s just me, tired of PT, PSOL, PSDB, P-Putaquepariudequatro and all the other Ps around my Brazil, stealing from us, promising things that never come and doing like Bolsonaro and many others before him, did. Unlike what you guys think, I am the one who doesn’t have a favorite politician or, in Bolsonaro’s words: “Eu não tenho político de estimação”. NONE of them. None of them are salvable at this point.I just hope his government’s mistakes along with Dilma’s before him, and Lula’s before him can show to this whole continental place that we NEED to change, because Right, or Left... There is no right side in this war.Have a nice day, love. And stay safe.

#bolsonaro #coronavirus #brasil #sem politico de estimação aqui

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architectnews · 3 years

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Dezeen's top 10 architecture trends of 2020

Continuing our review of 2020, here are 10 of the most interesting architecture trends, from escapist cabins to Thomas Heatherwick's green thumb and, of course, architects' responses to the coronavirus pandemic.

Prefabricated cabins

Factory-made homes are a hot topic in discussions of addressing global housing shortages, but 2020 was the year that architects explored their dreamier qualities. Perhaps it was the seemingly endless isolation, but prefabricated cabins that can be packed off to remote locations for living out an off-grid fantasy were very popular this year.

Muji was first out of the gate with Yō no Ie, a single-story dwelling designed for rural areas that features an expansive deck – complete with a sunken conversation pit – to encourage outdoor living.

Italian architects Massimo Gnocchi and Paolo Danesi provided a romantic vision of modular construction with Mountain Refuge, a concept for a plywood micro home designed for relaxing in the wild.

Studio Puisto also created a modular prefabricated cabin called Space of Mind that can function as an off-grid retreat or, in light of the coronavirus pandemic, as an extra room for working or exercising. The A-frame Den Cabin Kit also arrives in a flatpack kit of parts and can be assembled in just a few days.

Coronavirus field hospitals

As the coronavirus pandemic put hospitals around the world under pressure, architects and builders sprang into action to create field hospitals to treat patients.

In Wuhan, China, where the outbreak began, work continued through the night at the end of January on the 1,000-bed Wuhan Huoshenshan Hospital. In February it was able to accept its first patients after just nine days of construction.

Italy was one of the earliest countries to be hit hard by Covid-19, with hospitals quickly reaching capacity. In March, Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota developed an intensive care unit housed in a shipping container and by April the first two-bed unit was accepting coronavirus patients in a Turin hospital.

In the UK, architecture and engineering firm BDP helped turn the ExCel centre, a London conference venue, into the 4,000-bed NHS nightingale.

Aerial photography

As drones become more and more accessible, architecture photographers took to the skies to capture a birds-eye view of structures.

Aerial photographer Tom Hegen produced a series of photos of greenhouses in the Netherlands to ask questions about the world's food supplies.

Photography from above was a particular theme in the projects that won in Dezeen Awards 2020. Shots from the sky showed off the stepped roof garden of a red house in Vietnam by TAA, which won rural house of the year and architecture project of the year.

Aerial photography also captured arresting visuals of the civic building of the year, a primary school in Iran by FEA Studio, and a bicycle park in Copenhagen by COBE that won landscape project of the year. Drone photography also featured in shots of a treetop cycling circuit by BuroLandschap and De Gregorio & Partners, which was crowned infrastructure project of the year.

Biophilic Heatherwick

Heatherwick Studio flew the flag for biophilic architecture in 2020 – the practice of integrating plants to create indoor spaces that still allow occupants to connect to nature.

For its Maggie's Centre in Leeds, UK, the architecture firm created a timber-lined space filled with greenery and shelves especially for plant plots. With its grass-covered roof, the centre is designed to provide respite for people living with cancer.

In Singapore, the Thomas Heatherwick-founded practice completed a 20-storey residential tower apartment building called EDEN that's covered in plants, thanks to each home having its own balcony-style garden.

Even on a much smaller scale, the studio found ways to help people bring greenery into their homes, creating a desk that has plant holders for legs.

Architecture on film

2020 was the year that lots of people finally had time to catch up on their to-watch list.

To ease the boredom of lockdown and the loneliness of self-isolation, Dezeen put together a list of all the most interesting architecture on the big screen, and a round-up of all the top architecture and design documentaries to watch in quarantine.

It was so popular we also put together a spooky list of films and television shows where the haunted house plays a starring role.

Readers were inspired to share their own must-see film favourites, and we published these top quality recommendations in a list of their own.

Carbon-neutral architecture

As the world wakes up to the serious risk of a climate emergency, the architecture industry took a serious look at how the sector needs to cut its contribution. Some studios have become pioneers of carbon-neutral architecture – where a structure doesn't release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than it traps in place, or is designed to run on renewable energy sources.

Architecture studio A-01 unveiled a prototype for zero-carbon housing in Costa Rica, and a carbon-neutral hotel designed by Von M opened in Germany.

Stirling Prize-winning studio Mikhail Riches has a plan to deliver 600 Passivhaus homes in York, which is set to be the largest net-zero carbon housing scheme in England. In Wales, Loyn & Co is planning a 35-home net-zero-carbon housing scheme that will be built from cross-laminated timber (CLT).

People also shared tools to help other professionals achieve carbon neutrality. Construction company Skanska and software developer C Change Labs created a calculator to help compare the environmental impact of materials, and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios made a spreadsheet that can predict a building's carbon emissions over its lifespan.

Self-designed homes

Everyone was in the market for a little home improvement after months of staring at the same four walls, but no-one does a makeover quite like architects designing their own homes.

British architect John Pawson unveiled Home Farm, his minimalist countryside retreat set in a series of converted 17th-century farm buildings. Edinburgh pair Luke and Joanne McClelland carved a lateral apartment out of a set of Georgian townhouses.

In Australia, John Wardle remodelled his house of over two decades, while architect Simon Pole and graphic designer Annabel Dundas created a family home on the banks of the Yarra River.

More architects who became their own clients include the owners of Berman Horn Studio, who built their holiday home in Maine, and Lorenzo Grifantini with his house in Puglia.

Bjarke's BIG year

BIG founder Bjarke Ingels made plenty of headlines in 2020. In January he was heavily criticised for meeting with Brazil's controversial president Jair Bolsonaro. Ingels defended the meeting, arguing that "creating a list of countries or companies that BIG should shy away from working with seems to be an oversimplification of a complex world".

In March, as the pandemic bit, BIG turned its 3D printing facilities in New York over to making face shields. "The massive urgency and shortcomings of the traditional provisions and supply chain during the Covid outbreak has revealed the flexible making capacity that resides in so many places you don't normally associate with manufacturing, like architecture and design studios," Ingels told Dezeen.

In Albania there were protests in May over plans to replace Tirana's national theatre with a BIG design. Ingels made front-page news again in October, where a profile in TIME magazine revealed the extent of his next project: redesigning the entire planet to solve climate change.

His studio also announced some high profile projects in 2020, including a 3d-printed Moonbase for NASA, a city built out of wood at the foot of Mount Fuji, and a Virgin Hyperloop testing facility for Virginia.

Disguised ventilation shafts

Cunningly-disguised infrastructure elements were a more unexpected trend in 2020.

Grimshaw unveiled a range of vents for HS2 that will be masquerading as something else, including a farmyard barn in Chalfont and a sculptural crown-shaped landmark for Amersham.

Neiheiser Argyros built a white metal pavilion that integrates a digital screen, a cafe and public toilets to hide the fire escape and exhaust vents of the London Underground. On another part of the line, Cullinan Studio built an energy centre over the top of a vent to turn hot air created by the Northern Line into hot water for the surrounding homes – all hidden behind a bright red perforated metal screen.

Social distancing

Architects stepped in to help people and businesses cope with the pandemic, redesigning places and spaces so that people could use them while keeping a distance of over a metre from each other.

Dutch studio Shift Architecture Urbanism came up with a model to allow food markets to re-open safely, and Italian practice Caret Studio painted a public square in a town near Florence so that residents could socialise outdoors.

Weston Williamson + Partners put together a plan to help workplaces to comply with social distancing rules, and The Manser Practice did the same for hotels.

MASS Design Group came up with strategies to help bars and restaurants separate customers, while Isometric Studio put together a toolkit for museums and galleries.

Precht presented a design for a socially distanced park based on a hedge maze, and Arup made miniature parks with built-in benches to help businesses re-open in Liverpool.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

November 11, 2020 (Wednesday)

Heather Cox Richardson

Today President-Elect Joe Biden named his chief of staff. He has picked Ronald A. Klain, 59, a veteran Democratic operative with degrees from Georgetown and Harvard Law School, who has worked in and around Washington, D.C., since 1987, when he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White. Klain was Biden’s chief of staff when he was vice president.

Like Biden, Klain is well-known and well-liked in both parties, and is seen as competent and politically astute. He is an expert institutionalist who worked with Biden during the recession he and President Obama inherited from the previous administration. President Obama also appointed Klain to oversee the U.S. response to Ebola, giving him much-needed expertise as we face both a recession and a pandemic.

That’s the big story of the day. The coronavirus pandemic is out of control. Today states reported 144,000 new cases and 1,562 Americans died, the highest number of deaths since May 14. Hospitalizations are rising quickly, with more than 1600 people admitted every day. Texas has had more than 1 million infections, and has set up mobile morgues.

In North Dakota, the hospitals are at full capacity. To alleviate staffing shortages, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum (R) has taken the extreme step of allowing infected health care workers to continue to work, delivering care to those who are also sick. Burgum has declined to issue a mask requirement.

Today, three more members of the White House, including the political director Brian Jack, tested positive for coronavirus. Those infected attended the White House election night watch party, suggesting that the White House has now held two superspreader events. The first was the September 26 event celebrating Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court to take the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat.

Although Biden’s margin of victory in last week's election continues to mount and Trump’s lawsuits over the results continue to fail, Trump still refuses to admit he lost the election. Such a refusal in the face of such a big loss is unprecedented, and White House sources are grousing to reporters that the administration is “a f*****g clown show.”

Veteran Republican operative Karl Rove wrote today in the Wall Street Journal that the margin of victory is too high to be overturned, and former Secretary of Defense and Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine warned that Trump’s conduct is “more akin to a dictatorship than a democracy.” Twitter and Facebook have begun to block Trump’s lies about the election, prompting angry followers to call for switching their allegiance to platforms where they can say whatever they wish, true or not.

Trump’s refusal to recognize Biden’s victory is likely about more than his wish not to be seen as a loser. First of all, it’s quite profitable. The Trump campaign is urging followers to donate to the legal challenges, but the fine print shows that donations will actually go to a new Trump Political Action Committee and to the Republican National Committee’s operating account. Donations won’t go toward the legal challenges until donations to the other two funds are at their legal maximum of several thousand dollars.

Trump has quietly floated the idea of running again in 2024, but that, too, is likely tied to money. He is the only president in history to file for reelection on the day of his inauguration, and we now know that much of his campaign money went to legal bills and lavish lifestyles.

Republican leaders are humoring Trump because they need his voters in Georgia to eke out control of the Senate. Both of Georgia’s Senate seats are headed to a runoff in early January, and Republicans need Trump supporters to turn up. “We need his voters,” Senator John Thune of South Dakota, told reporters today. “[W]e want him helping in Georgia.”

Trump’s refusal to recognize the outcome of the election also gives him room to deny Biden the access to resources and information usually shared with the president-elect. He has refused to permit Biden access to the State Department, so the world leaders calling to wish him well have to reach out to the president-elect directly. Virtually all major foreign leaders have now called, except two of Trump’s autocratic allies: President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and President Vladimir Putin of Russia. For all the calls, both sides are providing readouts, as was the norm before Trump became president.

Trump has also refused to let Biden see the Presidential Daily Briefing, a daily document outlining the most recent intelligence about threats to the nation, and he has refused to let his people cooperate with Biden’s in a transition, a highly unusual move. Biden says he can work around these issues. “We don’t see anything that’s slowing us down, quite frankly,” Biden said yesterday. “We’re going to do exactly what we’d be doing if he had conceded and said we’ve won, which we have. So there’s nothing really changing.” Nonetheless, the refusal to cooperate weakens the country.

Although refusing to admit defeat, Trump is showing little sign of actually wanting to govern. He is tweeting statements that Twitter is flagging as disinformation and he is golfing. Otherwise, his public schedule is largely empty while Biden is keeping a normal presidential schedule. Reporters are expressing relief at the calm confidence Biden is returning to Washington, D.C.

The president has, though, begun a major purge at the Pentagon, another unusual move in the last two months of his presidency. He has replaced top civilians, including Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Esper’s chief of staff Jen Stewart, acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy James Anderson, and Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Joseph Kernan, with his own loyalists.

No one is quite sure what this purge means, but people are worried. General Barry McCaffrey, a retired four-star general, told MSNBC he was “alarmed” at the shake-up.

There are, though, some obvious reasons for the change in personnel. It might simply be a flexing of his muscles. It might be a way for him to permit loyalists to pad their resumes before they have to leave. It might be a way to try to release selective bits of intelligence about the Russia investigation to bolster his story about the contacts between his 2016 campaign and Russia—both Michael Ellis, who became general counsel of the National Security Agency, and Kashyap Patel, who replaced Stewart, are close associates of Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) who has worked hard to discredit the Russia investigation.

Or it could be that Trump wants to draw U.S. troops out of Afghanistan before the Pentagon says it’s safe. Military experts think that a U.S. presence is important for keeping the Taliban from regaining power there, where it could quietly back international terrorists, leaving us vulnerable to a terrorist attack during Biden’s administration. A former Trump official told Politico reporters Lara Seligman and Natasha Bertrand, “There is a lot of concern among military and former civilian Pentagon people that this shift was because [Trump] intends to take some kind of controversial military action and wanted junior political people that would greenlight it.”

In October, Trump shocked leaders by tweeting that he would bring home the 5,000 U.S. troops remaining in Afghanistan, where we have been for 19 years, by the end of 2020. Military officials told reporters that there were no plans to quit the country immediately as we waited for guarantees that the Taliban was following the agreement hammered out in February. A senior administration official disagreed, telling reporters that, as commander in chief, Trump would determine the best approach to Afghanistan. Throughout Trump’s term, military contractor Erik Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has tried to convince Trump to privatize our operations there, for a cost of about $5 billion a year, a fact that may or may not be relevant.

One thing, though, is clear. Trump thrives in chaos and the centrality it brings him. He is upping the ante post-election, as he fears the nation is moving on without him.

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Unthinkable just a few months ago, the United States on Wednesday surpassed the grim milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths, as the pandemic tightened its grip on Latin America.

With the European Union unveiling a massive recovery plan to step up its emergence from the crisis, the US figure was a sobering reminder of the devastation being wreaked around the globe by a virus that only emerged late last year.

Confirmed US deaths stood at 100,396 late Wednesday, with nearly 1.7 million infections, according to the tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

The 24-hour toll shot back up after three days of sharp declines, to 1,401.

Nevertheless, most US states moved toward reopening restaurants and businesses, cheered on by President Donald Trump, who is eager to see the economic pain of the crisis mitigated as he seeks re-election.

The US capital Washington will ease its lockdown from Friday.

Grim news came from across the Americas, as Brazil saw its death toll pass 25,000.

President Jair Bolsonaro is facing mounting criticism over his response to the health crisis.

The far-right leader has downplayed the seriousness of the pandemic and railed against stay-at-home measures, arguing the economic fallout risks causing more damage than the virus itself.

“The so-called second wave is coming: recession. It will affect everyone, without exception,” he wrote on Facebook.

Peru meanwhile registered a record 6,154 new cases in a 24-hour period.

“Difficult days, difficult weeks are coming because people are going to get sick,” said Pilar Mazzetti, who is helping to coordinate Peru’s coronavirus response.

– Huge EU aid plan –

In Europe, business have slowly started reopening as outbreaks on the continent slow, but Italy and Spain lack the firepower of richer European nations to rebuild their economies.

The EU unveiled a historic, 750-billion-euro ($825 billion) recovery plan to get the continent back on its feet.

It follows other unprecedented emergency measures introduced around the world to rescue economies shattered by the virus, which has claimed more than 354,000 lives globally as infections top 5.6 million.

“This is Europe’s moment,” EU Commission chief Ursula Von der Leyen said, urging solidarity.

“We either all go it alone, leaving countries, regions and people behind… or we walk that road together.”

The proposed package is expected to kick off tough negotiations, as backers try to win the support of some northern EU states that oppose paying out grants to nations already under mountains of debt.

The proposal comes as the continent — which has lost at least 173,000 people to COVID-19 — grapples with the human tragedy and economic destruction.

– ‘Next steps’ –

Spain on Wednesday began 10 days of official mourning for the more than 27,000 people who died there, with all flags on public buildings at half-staff.

While desperate to kickstart their economies, most governments in Europe are also trying to move cautiously, afraid of a second wave of infections.

In Cyprus, the badly-hit tourism sector inched back to life as beaches opened again — but with sunbeds and beach umbrellas spaced apart to avoid crowding.

“We’re here, we’re having a good time… we’re taking our safety measures,” said Georgios, a young gym trainer.

Elsewhere in Europe, Poland scrapped a rule calling for face masks in public, while Switzerland said it would drop its virus restrictions by June 6.

In Moscow, shops will reopen and people will be allowed out for walks from June 1 as the Russian capital announced the easing of its lockdown.

“Today we can already talk about the next steps out of the crisis situation,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.

– ‘Lockdown generation’ –

The United States remains the hardest-hit nation, with President Donald Trump weathering heavy criticism for his handling of the crisis — and for not wearing a mask in public despite his administration’s recommendations.

Trump’s principal preoccupation has been for a quick turnaround of the badly battered US economy, and he has pressured local and state leaders to ease lockdowns.

But his top infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci warned against “leapfrogging” guidelines in order to open more quickly.

“That’s really tempting fate and asking for trouble,” Fauci told CNN.

Trump courted controversy this month when he said he was taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure against coronavirus.

France said Wednesday it was banning the drug as a COVID-19 treatment, following a move by the World Health Organization to end clinical trials amid fears over dangerous side effects.

Even as many economies emerge from the drastic lockdowns, a joint study by Save the Children and UNICEF warned Wednesday that the pandemic could push as many as 86 million more children into poverty by the end of 2020.

And the International Labour Organization warned of the global fallout among young workers who have lost jobs because of the pandemic, a cohort it dubbed the “lockdown generation”.

“As we recover from the pandemic, a lot of young people are simply going to be left behind. Big numbers,” said ILO chief Guy Ryder.

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A Martial Arts Star Is Criticized for His Handling of Sexual Abuse Cases

Roberto Abreu, known as Cyborg, has acknowledged missteps in the way he responded to sexual abuse allegations in his Brazilian jiu-jitsu organization.

[Image description: Roberto Abreu.]

In March 2018, a 31-year-old instructor in the martial art of Brazilian jiu-jitsu was arrested at a gym in Naples, Fla. He was charged with three counts of sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl who was one of his students and a close family friend.

Today, the unresolved case and other allegations of sexual misconduct are rocking the sport and dogging one of its most powerful figures, Roberto Abreu. He was the longtime teacher and a close friend of the man who was accused of assaulting the 16-year-old. Many in the jiu-jitsu community assert that Abreu could have used his influence to expose and forcefully denounce sexual misconduct in the sport, but instead minimized it and did not offer adequate support to the accusers.

In the Naples case, Abreu, 40, a highly regarded fighter known as Cyborg and the owner of an organization called Fight Sports, has come under fierce criticism that he ignored the accuser and lent support to the man who was arrested, Marcel Gonçalves, even welcoming him at a Fight Sports gym after he was detained.

Gonçalves and Abreu are from the same region of Brazil, and Abreu is the godfather of Gonçalves’s young son.

And in August, a prominent promoter of jiu-jitsu published allegations of sexual misconduct involving a half-dozen coaches and competitors linked to Fight Sports. In interviews with The New York Times, some accusers and witnesses described instances in which, they said, Abreu discounted an attempted sexual assault and ignored or tried to pressure accusers or those who expressed concerns.

Abreu does not face any accusations of sexual misconduct, and he told The Times that he never dismissed the accusers’ concerns or tried to intimidate anyone.

But in a statement on Instagram on Aug. 13, Abreu acknowledged some missteps. He wrote, “To the victims and their families, I am sorry for my poor handling, ill-preparedness and lack of proper leadership to address the horrible experience they had to go through.”

Abreu wrote that in trying to protect his godson, he had “drastically failed” to address Gonçalves’s teenage accuser “adequately, publicly and swiftly.”

Answering written questions from The Times, Abreu said his organization was instituting policies to prevent inappropriate sexual behavior in the future, including sexual harassment training for all coaches and staff.

Allegations of sexual assault by fighters and instructors affiliated with Fight Sports underscore the failure of many global organizations to protect young women who participate in sports. This year alone, scandals involving sexual or psychological abuse have emerged in basketball, water polo, synchronized swimming, fencing, soccer and even dragon boat racing. The jiu-jitsu allegations follow a pattern in which top officials and coaches, operating with little oversight, are accused of seeking to protect the interests of the sport instead of victims.

Sent by @outofthegarden, who wishes to emphasize that Abreu is a strong supporter of Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro:

[Image description: Abreu post on Instagram, with a picture of him in a t-shirt that reads “Make Brazil Great Again” and a colleague with one that reads “Bolsonaro for presidency”; the caption is, in translation: “#B17 Make Brazil Great Again. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 All my support for out future president Jair Bolsonaro {tagging the then-candidate’s Instagram account}. Now is time for the good ones to rise. After all, like the myth {Bolsonaro supporters often call him ‘myth’}, the soldier who goes to war and is afraid of dying is a coward. Let’s go! Our flag is and will always be green and yellow {a common right-wing chant in Brazil is “our flag will never be red”, with red associated to communism}. Count on me, Captain!!!!! I make a challenge... I invite all leaders and influences to do the same, don the shirt and put yourself out there!!! It’s for our nation, it’s for Brazil!!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷“.]

[Image description: Abreu sharing two Facebook videos in support of Bolsonaro.]

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REACTION: Will Lula Run in Brazil’s 2022 Election?

Analysts react to Monday's surprise court decision.

Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva may now be able to run in Brazil’s 2022 presidential elections, after a lone Supreme Court justice threw out corruption charges against him.

The ruling, which will be appealed, could set up a showdown between Lula and President Jair Bolsonaro, who has struggled in recent months with record deaths from COVID-19 and a flagging economy.

What now?

AQ asked several observers to offer rapid reaction to the news.

Thomas Traumann, political analyst:

Brazil’s 2022 election began today. The ruling by Supreme Court judge Edson Fachin to invalidate Lula’s convictions brought forward by one year the contest to see who will face Jair Bolsonaro. Lula is again eligible and will be a presidential candidate for a third term.

The probable polarization between Bolsonaro and Lula will contaminate the political environment for coming months and could eliminate the space for other candidacies. There is a risk that when the campaign formally begins in June next year, Bolsonaro and Lula are so ahead of their opponents that there is no time for a third candidate.

Zeina Latif, economist:

I can’t comment on the legality of the decision, but it is very worrisome to see an entire process be reversed by a single justice. It shows lack of governance. It makes it harder for us to speak about our institutions being strong. It makes it harder for us to rebuild Brazil’s international standing with these types of decisions happening. This is exactly the kind of subject that should have been carefully debated by the Supreme Court as a whole. It sends a very bad signal.

Brian Winter, AQ‘s editor in chief:

Everyone will speak now of polarization between Bolsonaro and Lula, but I’m skeptical. The average Brazilian was just 22 when Lula’s presidency ended in 2010. These days he inspires much less love, or hatred, than media or politicians would have us believe. After Lula was released from jail in November 2019, many expected Brazil’s political dynamics to change. But most of his rallies didn’t draw massive crowds or generate all that much buzz on social media (where Brazilian politics happens now).

While antipetismo (sentiment against his Workers’ Party) remains strong in Brazil, and was a decisive trend in October 2020 municipal elections, circumstances are changing as we speak in part due to Bolsonaro’s disastrous management of the pandemic and the continued lackluster economy. I have even heard some Brazilians in financial markets say that they voted against Lula in 2018, but might vote for him in 2022 if it would help get rid of Bolsonaro.

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