Comments on: Slavery is still well and alive in small town Brazil!

By: Vinny

Vinny — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:18:27 +0000

While the current president (and former presidents are) IS responsible for the well-being of it’s people – i think that it is the responsibility of all Brazilian citizens to acknowledge and do something about this – which seems to be the case now that the general public knows about it.

I’ll have to admit ignorance here, i do not know all the details of what Lula is or is not doing about this particular problem as well as others, what i DO know is that Brazil does have its large share of problems everywhere and people are being treated unfairly all over the country – and I’d bet that the president has it’s hands full dealing with all the problems that the country of Brazil faces. But i could be wrong.

Thanks for sharing this.

By: Og Maciel

Og Maciel — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:50:12 +0000

Hi Pedro,

I just wanted to make a slight correction to something you said in your comment. Turns out the Brazilian constitution allows me to keep a dual citizenship… and I chose to take advantage of it. So I am still a Brazilian citizen. But even if I were not allowed to do so, my participation in the Brazilian Linux communities alone should show you that my interests go beyond what a piece of paper says my country is now! I will always care for the country which once was my home!

As far as your last comment, I really hope you didn’t feel offended, for I was referring to those who decided to close their eyes and not the entire nation.

Hope this cleared things up for you, and thank you for your feedback.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:16:36 +0000

Hi, I want to thank you for making this video well watched on the web and the community, it has reached the big press here on Brazil and the Mato Grosso governor (which is from the same party as the mayor of JuinÃ¡) and the Public Defense (MinistÃ©rio Publico) will need to take an action.

But I have to say about some points in your post. First, as opposed as you’ve stated the major Brazil population doesn’t knows that this kind is happening, not in details, and we got as angry as you are right now when we became aware of it. Remember that you are an US citizen now (you renounced allegiance for your former country) and it is not polite for a foreign to call a population coward for the problems that they are facing.

Please don’t be offended by my words, I really appreciate you work on the Brazillian’s Linux community but maybe you should blog about Iraq now.

By: Og Maciel

Og Maciel — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:10:44 +0000

@Duncan: Absolutely! But we’re talking about supposedly civilized man taking away land from the natives today! 2007! Obviously we cannot just give the land back (specially because it is very possible that the legit owners were brutally killed by the colonists), but what we can do today is prevent that things like that happen again!

Cheers,

By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:32:33 +0000

Keep in mind that where you live the land belongs to the natives as well. So if you believe what you state here, you owe them your land back as well.

By: Og Maciel

Og Maciel — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:06:13 +0000

@Djouallah: Thanks for the feedback. I’ve just fixed it.

By: djouallah mimoune

djouallah mimoune — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:02:02 +0000

the first(video) link is broken

By: Sulamita Garcia

Sulamita Garcia — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:40:28 +0000

OlÃ¡

Existe a versÃ£o completamente traduzida, narrada e com legendas em inglÃªs, aqui http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-O2iIHXyn0 . Vou postar no meu blog tambÃ©m.

By: Marko Anastasov

Marko Anastasov — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:24:43 +0000

I’d watch the video, but I cannot watch youtube. Is it possible for you to upload it to some file sharing site like mediafire or rapidshare?

By: Claudio

Claudio — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:27:48 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-O2iIHXyn0

An english version of the video.