This footage was filmed and produced 9 January 2023.

Under shouts of “No Amnesty” and “No Passage”, the main hall of the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo (USP), in Largo São Francisco, in São Paulo, was crowded with students, authorities, representatives of social movements and people from civil society, in an act for democracy, this Monday (Janiary 9).

The act at the college is a response to the invasion and depredation of the headquarters of the Three Powers yesterday (January 8) in Brasília, by coup supporters of Bolsonaro, who do not accept the result of the October presidential elections. For those who were at the USP Faculty of Law today, what happened yesterday in Brasília was an attack against the democratic rule of law and an “unsuccessful attempt at a coup d’état”. During today’s act, authorities, students and the population in general asked for punishment of those responsible, including those who financed the attacks and also for the authorities who failed to curb the crimes that occurred yesterday. They reinforced that attacking democracy is a crime provided for in the Constitution and must be punished.

The act was held in the same place where, on August 11 of last year, the institution promoted the reading of a letter in defense of democracy. That act was considered a milestone in civil society’s reaction to threats against elections and Brazilian institutions.