I want to start this manifesto with my most sincere condolences to request further 230 victims killed in the tragedy of Santa Maria in RS and families of the same.

It is sad to see that Brazil is hit by another tragedy that originated in incompetence, laziness and dishonesty in those responsible for public works, government and Brazilian society.
Lives of the people you cherish most are destroyed because of our "Brazilian way" to solve the country's problems.

On the evening of last Saturday (26.01.13) youths were victims of holocaust public that began in the corruption and indifference of the government in public, a fire caused by a disturbed person who was part of a show at a nightclub in Santa Maria - RS was initialized with a shot of a flag within the club. The flag of the fire came in contact with the circuit's acoustic show and coverage of the ceiling that was Styrofoam and foam, resulting in fire.
The fire caused panic among the young people at the club who attempted to leave, many were lost in the hallways, the bathrooms I thought others would be emergency exits and many never left the club because they were trapped (locked in the club, because the only way out that there was the entrance of the room and the windows were purposely locked by the owners).

The fire itself was not huge it could not have been deleted in a short time, firefighters arrived on the scene and quickly put out the fire in no time. So what caused so many deaths?

In fact according to the Fire Department Santa Maria - RS deaths of so many people were incurred due to a chemical reaction between substances flag, covering the ceiling that was Styrofoam and foam; material and acoustic system that produced a highly toxic gas killed by asphyxiation in a few seconds over 230 people (all aged 16 to 23 years old). According to them there were no cases of death by carbonization.
According to the account of survivor Matheus Vargas who was at the club when the fire started was installed an enormous panic in people who try to flee to escape the fire, there was much shouting and confusion. The club was a building complex with a single entry that is also out, with great internal space and hallways, there was no emergency exit many rushed to the bathrooms were thinking that emergency exits. What led many people to death.

And second Matheus Vargas shortly after the start of the fire was only way that the entrance of the building is opened and a time of a little more than 40 seconds, all the outputs were locked with the windows which turned the spot in HELL.

Many died in the bathrooms, hallways and the main hall suffocated by toxic gas exhaled by the fire, including several young minors died trying to escape the fire.
Yet in the words survivor, he said a girl died in his arms when the attempted rescue her and, more despair was so huge that the people crowded into the bathroom doors that a stack two feet tall with human bodies formed because the people who would die tumbled over each other (a sort of World War II Auschwitz, a concentration camp dead).

When firefighters entered the enclosure face a macabre scene, hundreds of dead bodies lying on the ground and was most impressive handsets of hundreds of victims killed playing because they were relatives of those who sought information with deceased relatives.
As more than 230 people died and 131 were injured in a manner so sudden?

According to the Fire Department Santa Maria - RS which hastened the deaths were:
 Possibly the club functioned without operational license from City Hall, a building unstructured;
 Too many people in a single environment without ventilation and enough space for many people, the capacity of the building was 1000 people, according to reports from survivors there were around 1500 people in the building, which resulted in mass casualties;
 The only way out was the building that was the very same input;
 The site owners closed their doors so that customers do not leave without paying.
Although our country is not attacked by suicide bombers in Gaza as a terrorist or as in the United States are victims of our own selfishness, dishonesty and lack of humanity that slowly destroys us with these misfortunes fruits of our popular and known "Brazilian way. "

How many people have to die to become aware that not only the Brazilian government more we must act responsibly and pay attention to what surrounds us.

A tragedy like this and others that not only surround the Brazilian past should teach us that to build any and all types of building have to take first place and the security of the variables that can jeopardize our life (Chaos Theory) implement solutions that simply solves part of the problem and leaves the other components of the same is being dishonest evolve with human life.

This tragedy and others is more a factor of negative repercussions for Brazil as reported on CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, The New York Times and other sources of international media that comes our country as a dangerous place and sloppy with people's security and tourists in the country. Events like this leave no doubt as the Brazilian has much to learn from their mistakes if the Brazilian does not learn from those mistakes now doomed to repeat the same in future.

And more than ever we need to radically transform this society sick and alienated!

Signed: Writer, Designer, Ativist and Militant brazilian-american

Religious fanaticism is the blind obedience to an idea, served with dogged zeal, to use violence to force others to follow it and punish those who are not willing to embrace it. The fanatic assumes an attitude of intolerance to others' ideas.

I'm afraid of the word "bigotry" and more to those who become fanatics or something because, movements, ideologies, religions, or what have you.

The fanatic hides a darker side of his personality. Ordinary people who circulate among us may be potential psychopaths with ideologies that neither parents recognize indoors. But the most dangerous of all is, without doubt, religious fanaticism.

There fanaticism more dangerous than moved by people like Congressman Bolsonaro against gays? The 70s were marked by numerous attacks of macho than their wives tried a social freedom unknown in Brazil. Some were killed. Brazil has changed the focus. The woman won a hard slice of society and today those same "ladies" who fought for their rights, are old and sitting in their churches struggling to impose thought that gay is a "genetic anomaly" or a "shameless" who chose by a "worldly life."

Aproprio me of a phrase I read on twitter Caio Locci that exemplifies homophobia:

HOMOPHOBIA, the Portuguese "I will, but I'm a coward."

Funny how ignorant and offensive to hear people say how Miriam Rios in the XXI century who do not want people with sexual deviations caring for their children. The outrage that provokes such people is such that it would be little swearing. A brief tour of his biography could also include several slices in society who suffer prejudice, such as women of easy virtue, for example. Not that became Mrs religious and won its past status as "clean." And if we analyze why this "woman" to say it, where we bumped? In Fanaticism. This even makes people lose their sense of reason and vomit nonsense in the media.

Homophobia hides desperately craving for another of the same sex. When you do not care about certain issues, we live peacefully with them. But beating, reaching, belittle, demean a fellow just did not agree with their sexual life is at least to be thought. There are so many things in this world that does not accept, and therefore do not raise flags against. I think for example, quotas for blacks in universities Dumbest thing that Brazilians could create, but even so, go around campaigning against or criticizing.

Prejudice is something that makes me sick, why can not understand it in its entirety. Do not enter me in the head a person for being black, poor, gay, obese or lean is less than me, or that is different.

An interesting point to be discussed is because people are so fond of living other people's lives and not the lives of themselves. It is a fact that the human being has always been concerned more with what the neighbor's doing than his own life, because that is the life and actions of others is so important to ourselves?

Today saw thousands of people offend and speak many comments on various ordinary geniuses of mankind and who helped build good values for us, only saying that these people act "in the name of God" kill, harass, repudiate all those who think differently point of view.

Nowadays it's so common for people to spend more time worrying about things that do not like the things they really like.

Nowadays be black, poor, overweight, skinny, ugly, gay, lesbian or following a religious belief contrary to the majority of society believe is nothing less than an "aberration" that should be treated and eradicated from the face. What scares me most is that people who claim to be as wise as Pope Benedict XVI support laws against killing people. Officially he fulfill the president of Uganda, congratulating the law that kills gays and lesbians. I remember a phrase of Pope John VI who said that "the Church is an expert in humanity" that "expert in humanity" is the one that kills people by simply choosing to live a life different or think differently from most people?

Pope Benedict XVI apologized support the initiative because according to the Bible a man or a woman who sleeps with another of the same sex is an aberration that affects the continuation of the human species on Earth.
What a real gay exterminate the world's population?

I am appalled at how much we have yet to evolve the world needs more than ever to learn to accept people as they are.

I write this manifesto in solidarity victims of the attack occurred in the town of Newtown. I hope these examples with our governor to rethink their policies.

References: http://eleojamal.blogspot.com.br/
CQC video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ8ZnTqEHiw

In the last three years the rate of crimes related to racism, racial and social prejudice increased around 176%, teachers, students, citizens what all these people have in common?
Well what do these people have in common is the fact that anyone can be a racist no matter what social class is, city and etc. ..
In Brazil unfortunately racial policies are a total failure because even after so many after the abolition of slavery, the Brazilian still has a strange ideology always find themselves better than others.
The Brazilian he never likes to see his errors he commits. It's so common to see people talking about the "other" is that they are racist, but those same people do not like to admit that somehow also act as racist.

Research published in 2011 indicates that 63.7% of Brazilians consider that race affects the quality of life of citizens. For most of the 15 000 respondents, the difference between the lives of whites and non-whites is evident in the work (71%), on issues related to justice and the police (68.3%) and social relations (65% ). The term social apartheid has been used to describe various aspects of economic inequality, among others in Brazil, drawing a parallel with the separation of whites and blacks in South African society, under the apartheid regime.
The survey results, compiled in 2008, is not exactly a surprise in a country where, despite being only half of the population, blacks elected little more than 8% of the 513 chosen representatives in the last election. Moreover, the salary of a white man in Brazil is on average 46% higher compared to that of a black man, which can also be explained by differences in education between these two groups.
Those earning less than minimum wage, 63% black and 34% are white. Of the richest Brazilians, 11% black and 85% are white. In a survey conducted in 2000, 93% of respondents acknowledged that racial prejudice exists in Brazil, but 87% of respondents said they still never felt such discrimination. This indicates that Brazilians recognize that there is racial inequality, but the bias is not a current issue, but something reminiscent of slavery. According Ivanir dos Santos (former expert of the Ministry of Justice for racial issues), "there is a hierarchy of skin color where blacks seem to know their place.". For Margarida Pressburger lawyer, member of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture of the United Nations (UN), Brazil still is "a homophobe and racist country."

A report released in 2011 UFRJ points out that the share has grown from blacks and browns in the total unemployed. According to the report, in 2006, 54.1% of blacks and browns were unemployed (23.9% men and 30.8% women). Just over 10 years ago, ie in 1995, blacks and browns accounted for 48.6% of the total (25.3% men and 23.3% women). Regarding those who are employed, the differences between races are also clearly visible: in 2006, the real average monthly income of white men amounted to R $ 1,164.00, an amount 56.3% higher than the remuneration obtained by white women (R $ 744.71), 98.5% higher than that achieved by men blacks and browns (R $ 586.26) and the 200% obtained by black women and mixed. A survey published in 2011 of MDS estimates that, in extremely plot pobreda population, 50.5% are women and 70.8% reported being black or mixed. The 2010 Census found that of the 16 million Brazilians living in extreme poverty (or up to $ 70 monthly), 4.2 million and 11.5 million are white are gray or black.

A series of murders in Brazil was studied between 2000 and 2009. The explanatory variables were: race / ethnicity, gender and education. The death statistics were obtained from the Mortality Information System. A trend analysis was performed using a polynomial for a series of historical time (p <0.05, confidence interval 95%). The black population accounted for 69% of homicide victims in 2009. The homicide rate among blacks increased, while the white population declined during the study period. The "rate" of homicides increased in groups with higher education and lower among blacks, whites, the rate decreased for those with the lowest education level and remained stable in the group with higher educational levels. In 2009, blacks had a higher risk of death than whites for murder, regardless of education level. Between 2004 and 2009, the homicide rate decreased in the white population, while the black population increased. The relative risk of being a victim of homicide in the black population increased, suggesting an increase in inequality. The effect of anti-weapons implemented in Brazil in 2004 was positive in the white population and less pronounced in the black population. Overall, the race / skin color was relevant in the occurrence of homicide.
In 2008, a new level: 111.2% died proportionately more blacks than whites in Brazil. The scenario is even worse among young people (15-24 years). Among whites, the number of murders fell from 6592 to 4582 between 2002 and 2008, a difference of 30%. Meanwhile, the murders of young black men rose from 11,308 to 12,749 - an increase of 13%. In 2008, 127.6% died young proportionately more blacks than whites. Ten years earlier, this difference was 39%. In the state of Paraíba, in 2008, died 1083% more blacks than whites. In the State of Alagoas, were 974.8% more deaths of blacks than whites. In 11 states, this ratio exceeds 200%. As an undeclared extermination, according to the federal government.

The Brazilian Apartheid
Apartheid is also linked to social exclusion of poor young people (especially young street) of Brazilian society. The role of the police in maintaining many of the residents of favelas in Brazil without interfering in the life of the Brazilian middle and upper classes is the key to maintaining this state of apartheid.
Teachers of Anthropology Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Daniel Hoffman describes this discrimination and exclusion of children and dasfavelas the streets as a "Brazilian apartheid". They write that, to protect themselves, poor children often carry weapons, and that as a result, "the cost of maintaining this form of apartheid is high: an urban public sphere that is not safe for any child."
Tobias Hecht says that wealthy Brazilians see the often violent street children as a threat, in an attempt to marginalize them and keep them socially and poverty that represent hidden life of the wealthy elite. According to Hecht, the persistent presence of these children "incorporates the failure of an unrecognized social apartheid to keep the poor out of sight."

The prejudice to Brazilian
The prejudice in Brazil is always attributed to "other." That's what a survey found in 1988 in São Paulo, where 97% of respondents said they have no bias and 98% (of those surveyed) said they knew other people who had prejudice. On the degree of relationship they had with those people who considered racist, were often appointed relatives, close friends or boyfriends. Every Brazilian seems to feel like "an island of racial democracy surrounded by racists everywhere." The same conclusion reached another survey conducted in 1995 by the newspaper Folha de S. Paul. Although 89% of respondents said there was color prejudice against blacks in Brazil, only 10% admitted having it. However, indirectly, 87% of respondents showed some prejudice to agree with phrases and sayings of racist, or listing them. A masking of reality also occurred when another poll surveyed patrons of black balls in Sao Paulo. Most respondents said they have never been discriminated against, while noted cases of racism involving relatives or close acquaintances. In Brazil, therefore, no one denies that racism exists, however, both the racist and the victim of racism are always "the other", and not the people themselves.

References: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racismo_no_Brasil
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GA5TT1Gb4