This blog gets traffic from all round the world, but not often that much from Brazil. When I checked the stats this morning, however, I noticed there were quite a few hits from that direction. It’s been a very busy day, though and, though I vaguely wondered why, I was too busy today to think much about it. This evening, however, I learnt the reason. It seems that there was a demonstration by about 100 students and staff at the University of São Paulo against the appointment of a person to a faculty position in the Physics Department. Here is a poster:
Here are some other pictures from the protest:
I understand that the demonstration resulted in the appointment of the person concerned being delayed until the “harassment case” is investigated. This seems to demonstrate that Direct Action, as they call this sort of thing, certainly seems to be a more effective approach to these matters than official procedures that rarely achieve anything.
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