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O suor de Collor na eleição de 89 e a saída de Fátima Bernardes do Jornal Nacional

As coisas tão, aos poucos, mudando na Globo. É o que escreve o Rodrigo Vianna:

Primeiro ponto: a Patrícia Poeta é mulher de Amauri Soares. Nem todo mundo sabe, mas Amauri foi diretor da Globo/São Paulo nos anos 90. Em parceria com Evandro Carlos de Andrade (então diretor geral de jornalismo), comandou a tentativa de renovação do jornalismo global. Acompanhei isso de perto, trabalhei sob comando de Amauri. A Globo precisava se livrar do estigma (merecido) de manipulação – que vinha da ditadura, da tentativa de derrubar Brizola em 82, da cobertura lamentável das Diretas-Já em 84 (comício em São Paulo foi noticiado no “JN” como “festa pelo aniversário da cidade”), da manipulação do debate Collor-Lula em 89.

Amauri fez um trabalho muito bom. Havia liberdade pra trabalhar. Sou testemunha disso. Com a morte de Evandro, um rapaz que viera do jornal “O Globo”, chamado Ali Kamel, ganhou poder na TV. Em pouco tempo, derrubou Amauri da praça São Paulo.

Patrícia Poeta no “JN” significa que Kamel está (um pouco) mais fraco. E que Amauri recupera espaço. Se Amauri voltar a mandar pra valer na Globo, Kamel talvez consiga um bom emprego no escritório da Globo na Sibéria, ou pode escrever sobre racismo, instalado em Veneza ao lado do amigo (dele) Diogo Mainardi.

Conheço detalhes de uma conversa entre Amauri e Kamel, ocorrida em 2002, e que revelo agora em primeira mão. Amauri ligou a Kamel (chefe no Rio), pra reclamar que matérias de denúncias contra o governo, produzidas em São Paulo, não entravam no “JN”. Kamel respondeu: “a Globo está fragilizada economicamente, Amauri; não é hora de comprar briga com ninguém”. Amauri respondeu: “mas eu tenho um cartaz, com uma frase do Evandro aqui na minha sala, que diz – Não temos amigos pra proteger, nem inimigos para perseguir”. Sabem qual foi a resposta de Kamel? “Amaury, o Evandro está morto”.

Era a senha. Algumas semanas depois, Amauri foi derrubado.

Kamel foi o ideólogo da “retomada consevadora” na Globo durante os anos Lula. Amauri foi “exilado” num cargo em Nova Yorque. Patrícia Poeta partiu com ele.

Ele continua em seu blog.

Alan Moore + OccupyWallStreet

Finalmente Moore nos deu seu parecer sobre o movimento identificado por um ícone que ajudou a resgatar. Primeiro em entrevista ao Guardian:

“I suppose when I was writing V for Vendetta I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: wouldn’t it be great if these ideas actually made an impact? So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world… It’s peculiar. It feels like a character I created 30 years ago has somehow escaped the realm of fiction.”

(…)

“That smile is so haunting. I tried to use the cryptic nature of it to dramatic effect. We could show a picture of the character just standing there, silently, with an expression that could have been pleasant, breezy or more sinister. (…) And when you’ve got a sea of V masks, I suppose it makes the protesters appear to be almost a single organism – this “99%” we hear so much about. That in itself is formidable. I can see why the protesters have taken to it.”

(…)

“I think it’s appropriate that this generation of protesters have made their rebellion into something the public at large can engage with more readily than with half-hearted chants, with that traditional, downtrodden sort of British protest. These people look like they’re having a good time. And that sends out a tremendous message.”

Na mesma entrevista, ele riu do fato da Time Warner – que é dona da DC Comics que é dona dos direitos de V de Vingança, o quadrinho que deu origem à máscara – faturar dinheiro com royalties nas vendas do ícone dos Occupy:

“I find it comical, watching Time Warner try to walk this precarious tightrope. It’s a bit embarrassing to be a corporation that seems to be profiting from an anti-corporate protest. It’s not really anything that they want to be associated with. And yet they really don’t like turning down money – it goes against all of their instincts. I find it more funny than irksome.”

Em outra entrevista, à revista Honest, ele diz o ele acha que deva mudar em nosso sistema político:

“Everything. I believe that what’s needed is a radical solution, by which I mean from the roots upwards. Our entire political thinking seems to me to be based upon medieval precepts. These things, they didn’t work particularly well five or six hundred years ago. Their slightly modified forms are not adequate at all for the rapidly changing territory of the 21st Century.

“We need to overhaul the way that we think about money, we need to overhaul the way that we think about who’s running the show. As an anarchist, I believe that power should be given to the people, to the people whose lives this is actually affecting. It’s no longer good enough to have a group of people who are controlling our destinies. The only reason they have the power is because they control the currency. They have no moral authority and, indeed, they show the opposite of moral authority.”

OccupyWallStreet: Mark Millar e o direito que Frank Miller tem de falar o que quiser

Meu autor de quadrinhos favorito em ação (Alan Moore já foi pra outra camada de percepção, né), Mark Millar aproveita as baboseiras que o Frank Miller falou sobre o OccupyWallStreet para lembrar pra gente que é bom separar a obra do autor e comentar a forte reação que aconteceu depois que o autor do Cavaleiro das Trevas e de Sin City foi virtualmente linchado por boa parte de seus colegas de profissão:

It’s strange to watch your favourite writer getting strips torn off him for a couple of days.

Politically, I disagree with his analysis, but that’s besides the point. I wasn’t shocked by his comments because they’re no different from a lot of commentators I’ve seen discussing the subject. What shocked me was the vitriol against him, the big bucket of shit poured over the head by even fellow comic-book creators for saying what was on his mind.

Obviously, it’s within their rights to exercise the First Amendment as much as it was within Frank’s to make the original point. But there’s something so distasteful about that cyber-mob mentality that revolts me. It’s not just that I like the guy, that his body of work is among the best the industry has ever seen. It’s the GLEE I’m seeing from some people and, worse, the calls I’ve seen to boycott his work because his perspective on a point differs from yours and mine.

I’m reminded of the time, in the heated period leading up to the Gulf War, when over a thousand people signed a cyber-petition to have me fired from Marvel because I disagreed with the war in Iraq as a response to 9/11. Bill Jemas, quite bravely, bounced this back saying that one of the things he liked about America is that you can say what you like without fear that you’re going to lose your job. Liberalism doesn’t mean throwing guys in jail who DISAGREE with your liberalism. It means accepting that society is richer when everybody has a voice. Starting economic sanctions against a writer until they shut up and agree with you is horrific.

I dunno. I just hate a mob. I think it demeans us. I also hate a bandwagon and would urge my fellow left-wing readers to boycott Miller no less than HP Lovecraft, Steve Ditko, David Mamet or any other writer who might not share my personal philosophy, but who’s work I’m happy to have on my shelves.

Ele mesmo começou a discussão em seu fórum oficial, que continua por lá.

OccupyWallStreet: “You cannot evict an idea whose time has come”

“Não dá para expulsar uma idéia que já está aí” é o título (traduzido coxalmente) do comunicado que os despejados do Zuccotti Park lançaram nessa terça. Segue a íntegra, em inglês:

A massive police force is presently evicting Liberty Square, home of Occupy Wall Street for the past two months and birthplace of the 99% movement that has spread across the country and around the world

The raid started just after 1:00am. Supporters and allies are mobilizing throughout the city, presently converging at Foley Square. Supporters are also planning public actions for the coming days, including occupation actions.
You can’t evict an idea whose time has come.

Two months ago a few hundred New Yorkers set up an encampment at the doorstep of Wall Street. Since then, Occupy Wall Street has become a national and even international symbol — with similarly styled occupations popping up in cities and towns across America and around the world. A growing popular movement has significantly altered the national narrative about our economy, our democracy, and our future.

Americans are talking about the consolidation of wealth and power in our society, and the stranglehold that the top 1% have over our political system. More and more Americans are seeing the crises of our economy and our democracy as systemic problems, that require collective action to remedy. More and more Americans are identifying as part of the 99%, and saying “enough!”

This burgeoning movement is more than a protest, more than an occupation, and more than any tactic. The “us” in the movement is far broader than those who are able to participate in physical occupation. The movement is everyone who sends supplies, everyone who talks to their friends and families about the underlying issues, everyone who takes some form of action to get involved in this civic process.

This moment is nothing short of America rediscovering the strength we hold when we come together as citizens to take action to address crises that impact us all.

Such a movement cannot be evicted. Some politicians may physically remove us from public spaces — our spaces — and, physically, they may succeed. But we are engaged in a battle over ideas. Our idea is that our political structures should serve us, the people — all of us, not just those who have amassed great wealth and power. We believe that is a highly popular idea, and that is why so many people have come so quickly to identify with Occupy Wall Street and the 99% movement.

You cannot evict an idea whose time has come.

OccupyWallStreet: Shut Down Wall Street / Occupy the Subways / Take the Square

O movimento OccupyWallStreet está armando, para essa quinta-feira, um mega protesto pacífico em Nova York, depois de ter sido expulso do Zuccotti Park. O protesto de hoje consiste, primeiro, em fechar a região de Wall Street para depois ocupar todo o metrô e, finalmente, estacionar na Foley Square, em frente à prefeitura da cidade. Nesses três turnos, usarão o jogral microfone-humano (quando um fala e todos repetem, de forma que todos ouçam) para contar para as pessoas sobre o que estão protestando.

A quinta-feira também marca o aniversário de dois meses do protesto.

Henry Rollins para presidente

Imagine só:

If I were president the first thing I would do is probably get sat down by the Pentagon and the powers that be who would say, “No, you’re probably not going to get done the things that you—we saw your one sheet and you’re not going to get it.”

I think a lot of presidents go in with a big to-do list and someone sits them down and says “That’s really not how the game is played, son. You’re going to have to learn: this is the beltway. We do things a certain way. You had high hopes and you’ll get a few of these things done, watered down, neutered and relatively meaningless by the time they crawl through the Senate, but as it is now these big burly strong changes, no.” So I would probably be told that because my first day in office I would have lost Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. I would have reestablished Glass-Steagall. I would have demanded that the Bush tax cuts—they would have sun-setted, they would have gone away. There would have been some pain. The middleclass would have been hard up against it, but we would be in a much different position than we are now.

So I would have gone in reacting to eight years of George W. Bush, two useless wars that make America hemorrhage life and treasure. I would immediately start repairing the perception of America in the world, like our president did by speaking out in Cairo to basically Islam. So I would do things like that, realizing my first four years in office would be to repair and somehow neutralize the eight years that came before me, so maybe in my next term I could go slowly up field to a noticeable degree, and that would be my legacy. The first four years, clean up the storm, clean up the wreckage, make nice with the world, demilitarize as far as American military presence in the world. I would get my military force out of the, like, 141 countries that we’re in plus all the black bases we have off the record. I would bring these people home.

Via Big Think.