Barricades Against the Presidential Elections in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Our response: direct action!

Faced with the anarchist debate on voting and elections, our response was, is and will be direct action against all authority. It is urgent to transcend from paper to action.

In the early hours of the day of the elections, we set fire to more than 300 flags, surveys and pamphlets that set the tires of a barricade on the viaduct on Avenida Silva Só, an area near the center of the city, on fire. With this action, the flow of normal citizenry renounced the vote as a lifestyle.

On the canvas, and on the pamphlets that accompanied the fire, was written: “Against all politicians, Against all authority, Long live anarchy!”

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From: Contra Info