2017 Brazilian general strike
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The 2017 Brazilian general strike took place on April 28, 100 years after Brazil's first general strike in June 1917.[1] The movement was a protest against reforms of labor laws, which were later adopted and social security proposed by Michel Temer government and pending in National Congress of Brazil.[2][3][4]
More than 150 cities recorded stoppages,[5] and according to the organizers, there were 40 million people,[6] with no official admission balance or the number of protesters on the streets.[5] With wide coverage in international media,[7] the strike was minimized by the Brazilian press according to the journalist Paula Cesarino Costa, with emphasis given to conflicts between police and strikers.[8] With diverse reactions, politicians who support the government reduced the impact of the strike while oppositionists defended it as popular expression.[9][10][11] Political scientist Marco Antonio Teixeira, in an interview for the BBC, said that the strike was "smaller than organizers expected, but larger than the government would like".[5]