Brazil has a Steve Bannon of the Left. Today we study up how Congressman Andre Janones turned Lula’s Worker’s Party defeat in round one of the PE on October the 4 to win on October 26 with about 10 million votes shifting sides. We’ll do it by looking at the 12 points of the Mini-Manual of Informational Warfare.
We’ll go through each. First, we explore the context, followed by Derek closing with a look back at the roots of this eclectic and liberatory political explosion in the 1960's Tropicalia movement.
Show Notes
Mini-Manual of Informational Insurgency
Yes, Protest Still Works—Serbia Just Proved It
Tropical Truth: A Story Of Music And Revolution In Brazil
Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture