Urban commuting misery fueled Brazil’s mass protest movements

Evidence

In Salvador, like the rest of Brazil, working-class people put a big chunk of their income toward getting to their jobs and back. And in Bahia—like the rest of the world—the daily grind of braving traffic and cramming into uncomfortable spaces, only to go work all day and then come home again, was one of the worst parts of contemporary urban life. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 143

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Brazilian television coverage legitimated the protests into a mass movement. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 400; A major Brazilian protest movement organized as consensus-based and leaderless by design — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 149; Occupy São Paulo failed where crime and urban violence deterred sympathizers — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 270 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Occupy São Paulo failed where crime and urban violence deterred sympathizers #complicates (0.78) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 270
• Brazilian protesters explicitly invoked the Turkish uprising as their model #expands (0.75) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 395
• Diverse cities fragment movement into countless small exclusions #complicates (0.74) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 268
• Brazilian television coverage legitimated the protests into a mass movement. #qualifies (0.72) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 400
• Unemployed floating populations fueled preindustrial urban riots #exemplifies (0.72)
• A major Brazilian protest movement organized as consensus-based and leaderless by design #exemplifies (0.70) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 149