Week of Fights Against the Bus Prices in Florianópolis, Brazil

On june 28 started a week of demonstrations against the increasing prices of the busses on the city of Florianópolis in Brazil. The city is localized in south Brasil and it s the capital of the state of Santa Catarina . There lives around 500 000 people and the city is mostly in an island and a small area at the coast connected only by two bridges.

The demos are being organizade by some neighborhoods assossiations, students organizations and independents. They re demanding the imediatilly decrease of the bus prices. From the 28 of june till 2 of july five different main bus stations were blocked by 5.000 people more or less. The demos also blocked the two bridges wich are the only entrance and way out to the city center. The city hall was also ocupyed by the protestors.

On the 30 of june the militar police, helped by a shock troop, destroyed violently a demo of 3 000 people with peper spray and tear gas. The OAB ( an assossiation of the brasilian lawers) gonna send a document to the justice demanding the annulation of this last increase prices. At 2 of july the mayor Angêla Amim admitted the possibility to decrease the prices, organizing a popular consultation. The prices got higher on the last Sunday 27 of june and became the highest bus prices in Brazil.

New demos are being organized and at the 8 of july will happens the biggest demo couting with all groups and people who are participating and supporting the moviment at the center of the city. Since august last year Florianópolis has a new bus system wich were did by the companies and city hall counting mostlly the interesting of the profits against the interesting of people who needs daily this service.


Send messages to the city hall supporting the fight:

Gabinete da Prefeita
gabinete (at) pmf.sc.gov.br

Secretaria de Transportes e Obras
assis (at) pmf.sc.gov.br

Núcleo de Transportes
darcio (at) pmf.sc.gov.br


Here an example of message that you can send:

(The message orders that the city hall should listen and do the demanding of the demonstrators. Saying that the collective busses are a necessity for workers and students and they, the population should be the central point in the question of collective transports and not the profits of companies. Also says that the international community are paying attention on every civil and human rights violation like it happened here with police violence and people having their life threated to be part on the demo. )

Venho por meio deste demonstrar meu apoio a luta da população de Florianópolis por um transporte coletivo acessível a todos/as e voltado aos interesses dos seus usuários/as e não aos interesses das empresas privadas de transporte. Sabemos das dificuldades econômicas da população brasileira e por isso achamos justa as reivindicações dos/as manifestantes.

Queremos também relembrar que a comunidade internacional estará de olho nos acontecimentos e atenta a qualquer violação dos direitos humanos em Florianópolis.

É inaceitável que manifestantes estejam sendo espancados por seguranças privados, que a polícia reprima manifestações legítimas com extrema violência ferindo manifestantes e qualquer um que passe por seu caminho e pessoas estejam sendo ameaçadas de morte por fazerem parte do movimento.

Exigimos que a prefeitura municipal seja menos intransigente com a população, atendendo suas reivindicações. Também exigimos o fim da conivência com o monopólio das empresas de transporte coletivo em Florianópolis.

Grato/a por sua atenção,

Sing your name here / country.

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Private securitys use violence against protestors and population.

At 2 of july when the protestors were going back home, private securitys from the bus stations hitted violently people.

Everything started when around 20 people that nobody knows if they were or not at the demo were kicked out from the main bus station at the city center. The people nervous to being hitted by the securitys started to throw stones against them and against the offices of the companies by the outside.

As the same moment other securitys inside the station were looking and violentilly beating up people who looked likes they were at the demos.
A lot of them were teenagers between 14 and 17 years old and did not expected this aggressions. They were talking and distracted in a pacific way.
After 20 minutes of confusion also between the demonstrators, cause some of them were asking to the people stop with the stones, more 30 securitys came to the entrance of the station and started to hit everybody who wanted get inside the terminal to escape to the confusion.

A kid of 15 years old tried to came closer to the station with the arms up saying that he wasn t at the demo, that he was just trying to go back home. He was also kicked to the floor and kicked even on the face by 4 securitys.

A man who was filming was also hitted and had his camera destroyed by security. At least 2 passengers had broked arms. The police just came after a while to finish the conflict.
Some protestors were also hitted and two secutritys were catched with 2 guns with out license.