A documentary of one city’s protest directly inspired another city’s successful campaign

Evidence

The local man with a camera who always showed up at these sort of things, Carlos Pronzato, made a wobbly little documentary about the Salvador protests called A Revolta do Buzu. After it was shown in the glitzy beach city of Florianópolis, local youth got excited and formed the Campanha Pelo Passe Livre—the Free Fare Campaign. Except when these kids took to the streets, they actually pulled it off. After intense street contention starting in 2004, they got the city government to give up on raising the bus fare. Across the country, the alter-globalization generation was inspired. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 146

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the protest-tactics-diffusion literature and to my interests in how movements spread across places. — connects to: Global media templates shape how local protests are interpreted and copied — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 272; Global protest movements of 2011 coordinated through shared tactics against the 1 percent
• CANDY: A wobbly homemade documentary sparking a successful movement in another city is a fun, almost ironic story of viral replication.

Broader Connections

• Global media templates shape how local protests are interpreted and copied #expands (0.78) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 272
• Global protest movements of 2011 coordinated through shared tactics against the 1 percent #exemplifies (0.72)