"Primavera brasileira": no Maranhão e em outros estados

Abstract

In June 2013, Brazil experienced a wave of street demonstrations in several Brazilian cities, capitals and the interior, demonstrations that were not seen since perhaps the Direct Already, not even the movement "Caras Pintadas" of 1992, in favor of the impeachment of the then president Fernando Collor de Melo. Several social scientists have struggled to understand the phenomenon, which mobilized people of different social levels, but who had a common purpose, to see improvements throughout the public system. This work was based on the observations and reports of social media, Facebook, which here in Maranhão not only summoned the population to take to the streets, as well as used their space to divulge the days of the protests, schedules, paths that were traveled and their organizers, also asked for the demonstrators, to signal their participation and to confirm their presence in the events.