Lula, a Great Unschooler

Lula the popular President of Brazil is someone that thanks to being poor did not get a chance to being brainwashed by the Public Schooling System.

According to the Wikipedia:

"Lula had little formal education, quitting school after 4th grade. His professional life began at age 12 as a shoeshine boy. By age 14 he got his first formal job in a steel processing factory. Lula did complete elementary school".

Of course a Real Education is better than No Education, but No Education is better than Dumbing Down Schooling. By staying away from the damaging Schooling process, he saved his mind, which allowed him to learn from the Great School of Life.

Here in NYC, Lula would had been forced/coerced into Special Ed for his certain destruction: especially since he was bright, brave, and had leadership skills. Plenty of Ritalin for his slow chemical lobotomy would have solved the problem.

Here in NYC, Lula would had been kidnaped by the so-called CPS and destroyed into Foster Care. Quitting school after 4th grade: educational neglect. Working at age 12: Child Abuse and had his mother arrested. One can be almost sure that he did not wear shoes: another excuse for the CPS to kidnap him. He probably lived in a crammed, unkept place: another reason to kidnap him.

Thanks God that at Lula's time there was no CPS or Special Ed. Between them, they would had insured that Lula ended in prison, as homeless, mentally ill, or recycling among the three of them.

If he had been living in NYC, an army of predators would have fallen upon him and would have destroyed him and his Family; all on the name of "protecting" him (CPS) and "helping" him (Special Ed).

Only a civilization in an advanced state of decay would use the powerful resources of the State to persecute and destroy its Children. If anything, the State should use its resources to improve the living conditions, not to destroy the Families that protect those Children. The destruction of the Family, specially the Black and Latino Family, is a gift of the politically correct, who claiming to be "progressive" and modern are set in destroying this "old" institution. In reality, they are regressive and are the worst enemies of Blacks and Latinos.


Rolando Bini
Parents in Action
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Biography

Lula was born Luiz Inácio da Silva in Caetés district of Garanhuns city in Pernambuco state, Brazil, to a poor, illiterate farming family. His date of birth was registered as 6 October but he claims to have been born, according to his mother's memory, on 27 October.

Soon after Lula's birth, his father moved to the coastal city of Santos (in the Brazilian state of São Paulo), to work as a cargo lifter in the city's harbor. Lula's mother and her 8 children joined his father in 1952, facing a journey of 13 days in an truck's open cargo area. Although their living conditions were better than in Pernambuco, life was still very difficult.

In 1956 his family relocated to the city of São Paulo, which offered greater opportunities. Lula, his mother and 7 siblings lived in a small room in the back area of a pub.

Lula had little formal education, quitting school after 4th grade. His professional life began at age 12 as a shoeshine boy. By age 14 he got his first formal job in a steel processing factory. Lula did complete elementary school.

At age 19, he lost a finger in a accident while working as a press operator in an automobile parts factory. Around that time he became involved in union activities and held several important union posts. Brazil's right-wing dictatorship strongly suppressed trade unions, and in reaction Lula's views moved further to the political left.

In 1966 he married Maria de Lourdes, who died together with their son at birth. In 1974 he re-married to Marisa, with whom he had three sons.

In 1978 he was elected president of the Steel Workers' Union of São Bernardo do Campo and Diadema, the cities home to virtually all of Brazil's automobile manufacturing facilities (such as Ford, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and others) and among the most industrialized in the country.

In the 1970s, Lula helped organize major union activities including several huge strikes. He was jailed for a month, but was released following protests. The strikes ended with both pro-union and pro-government forces dissatisfied with the outcome.

On 10 February 1980 a group of academics, union leaders and intellectuals, including Lula, founded the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) or Workers' Party, a left-wing party with radical ideas created right in the middle of the military dictatorship.

In 1982 he added the nickname Lula (which means "squid" in Portuguese and is also a hypocoristic for Luiz) to his legal name. In 1983 he helped found the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) union association.

In 1984 PT and Lula joined the popular Diretas Já campaign, demanding a direct popular vote for the next Brazilian presidential election. Presidents were then elected by members of Congress, but since the military coup only high-level military personnel (mainly generals) had been appointed. As a direct result of the campaign and after years of popular struggle, the 1989 elections were the first to elect a president by direct popular vote in more than 30 years.

In 1992 Lula joined the campaign for the impeachment of the popular elected president Fernando Collor de Mello after a series of scandals involving public funds.


Elections

State visit to Mozambique, Nov. 2003. Lula aims to build Brazil's relationships with other Portuguese-speaking countries.Lula took part in his first election in 1982, for the government of the state of São Paulo. He lost, but helped his party to gain enough votes to remain in existence.

In the 1986 elections, Lula won a seat in Brazil's Congress with a medium percentage of the votes. The Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) helped write the country's post-dictatorship constitution, ensuring strong constitutional guarantees for workers' rights, but failing to achieve redistribution of rural agricultural land.

In 1989, Lula ran as the PT presidential candidate. Although he was popular with a wide spectrum of Brazilian society, he was feared as an opponent by business owners and financial interests, and lost the election. His party was formed by left-center social democrats and Trotskyist socialists, which also earned him the distrust of better-off Brazilians, his party is the biggest and most important party of Left spectre(A socialist democratic party).

Lula continued to run for President. In his 2002 campaign he abandoned his informal clothing style and his platform plank of refusing to pay Brazil's foreign debt. This last point had worried economists, businessmen and banks, who feared that a Brazilian default along with the already ongoing Argentine default would have a massive ripple effect through the world economy.

Lula became President after winning the second round of the 2002 election, held on October 27, defeating the Center-left candidate Jose Serra of the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luiz_Inácio_Lula_da_Silva