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Hundreds of protesters gathered on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday morning (Jun. 23) to demand the immediate shelving of Bill 1904/24. The bill equates abortion after 22 weeks of gestation with murder, proposing to increase the maximum sentence for individuals who undergo the procedure from ten to 20 years.Social assistant Clara Saraiva, one of the organizers of the demonstration and a member of the State Front Against the Criminalization of Women and for the Legalization of Abortion in Rio de Janeiro, stated that the protest is part of a national movement called "Criança não é Mãe" (Child is not a Mother). The movement demands the immediate shelving of the bill because it protects rapists and restricts women from exercising their legal right to abortion after the 22nd week ...

Mass incarceration and police violence in the poorest communities are at the center of discussions at this year's São Paulo Marijuana March. Under the slogan “Creating a Future without War”, the demonstration took place on Paulista Avenue, in the central region of the capital, on Sunday (Jun. 16).The movement asserts that the prohibition of marijuana is used as a pretext to persecute the black population living in the peripheral areas of large cities. "The big lie of prohibition is perpetuated to sustain the arms industry, prisons, and massacres. A racist ideology that turns corruption into routine, feeding armed, violent, and profitable markets that grow day by day," states the manifesto of the 2024 march. It emphasizes that the illegality of drugs is upheld by lies that contradict scie...

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Protests on Sunday against bill equating abortion with murder

São Paulo Marijuana March protests arrests and police violence