For those who want to understand a little bit more about the situation, this short video explains a little bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZApB...

NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/world/americas/thousands-g...

Also note that many other brazilians are organizing protests around the world this week[1, 2]. About 1k people in SF alone[3]

The current wave of protests does not seem to be an isolatted event[4].

[1] http://www.melhorquebacon.com/lista-de-cidades-que-terao-man...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/CQCBlogs/posts/623054044372345

[3] https://www.facebook.com/events/498561580217088/

[4] http://roarmag.org/2013/06/protests-brazil-turkey-bosnia-bul...