As per Global Voices Online, the bill passed through Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies last month and was approved in the Senate last night. The next and final step is the presidential signature.

Twitter users in Brazil have mixed feelings about the bill:

1. 
   flexaribeiro (Pará, Brazil) MP 458 é o primeiro passo para regularizar terras e ajudar a desenvolver a Amazônia, recuperando áreas já alteradas. (Bill 458 is the first step to regularize land and help develop the Amazon Forest, recovering areas that have already been changed.)  03 Jun 2009 from web
2. 
   stanleyrossine (Piauí, Brazil) Sou adepto ao jargão da velha ditadura: “integrar para não entregar” http://migre.me/1O9H #amazonia #terras (I am a fan of the jargon of the old dictatorship days, “to integrate in order not to give away”) 04 Jun 2009 from TwitterFox
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   Ronoel (Brazil) Agora sim, por uma lei brasileira, a amazônia não é mais nossa! http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/brasil/ult96u576355.shtml (Now, as per a Brazilian law, the Amazon is no longer ours!) 04 Jun 2009 from web
4. 
   axncavalheiro (Brazil) hoje, começo a pensar que os estado-unidenses estão corretos: não somos capazes de cuidar da amazônia = x( (Today I start to believe that the States were right, we are not able to look after the Amazon.) 04 Jun 2009 from web
5. 
   valter_pereira (Distrito Federal/Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil) Milhares de pessoas saem das precárias condições de ocupantes de terras e passam a condição de futuros produtores rurais (Thousands of people will come out of the precarious condition of land squatters to become future farmers) 04 Jun 2009 from web
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   valter_pereira (Distrito Federal/Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil) A origem de muitos conflitos agrários era a falta de regularização fundiária. Muitas vezes, a disputa pela posse era resolvida à bala. (The reason behind many conflicts has been the lack of agricultural land regularization. The dispute for land is often resolved by bullet.) 04 Jun 2009 from web
7. 
   joaopedrosenado (Distrito Federal, Brazil) Eu e outros parlamentares faremos um apelo ao presidente Lula para que sejam vetados artigos da MP 458, sobre a regularização fundiária. (I and other members of parliamente will call to President Lula to vetoed articles in the Bill 458, on land regularization) 04 Jun 2009 from web
8. 
   bscala (São Paulo, Brazil) O Programa “Terra Legal” do Governo Lula, deveria se chamar “Terra Ilegal”. Terras podem ser vendidas em apenas 3 anos. Imagine só… (Lula’s program “Legal Land” should be called “Illegal Land”. The donated land can be sold in just 3 years, can you believe it?) 04 Jun 2009 from TweetDeck
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   jayson_eng (New Mexico, US) O desflorestamento da Amazônia é uma tragédia, mais no futuro, seja necessário pra cultivar o alimento pra todo mundo. (The Amazon deforestation is a tragedy which will be greater in the future, but necessary to grow the food for everyone) 04 Jun 2009 from web
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    dalmarcondes (São Paulo, Brazil) Um dia vamos perceber que o Brasil só é importante porque tem a Amazônia. Sem ela somos um país irrelevante como muitos outros. (One day we will realise that Brazil is only an important country because of the Amazon. Without it, we would be as irrelevant as many other coutries.  04 Jun 2009 from web

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Earlier this month, a row between Chief Justice Gilmar Mendes and Joaquim Barbosa, both magistrates of Brazil’s Supreme Court, was broadcast live on television has been denounced as ’shameful’ by the press and bloggers, as reported by Global Voices Online.

Some reactions:

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   myris (Brasil) Impeachment ao Ministro Gilmar Mendes? http://bit.ly/eaIL6 #SaiaGilmar (Impeachment against Judge Gilmar Mendes?) 06 May 2009 from web
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   Escalafobetico (Indaial) Daqui a pouco o Gilmar Mendes dá um jeito de foder com a liberdade na internet,aham, #SaiaGilmar (It will not take long for Gilmar Mendes to f••k with freedom on the Internet, aham) 06 May 2009 from twhirl
3. 
   joaoporto (Brasília) Protesto contra Gilmar Mendes em três capitais (demonstrations against Gilmar Mendes in three capital cities) http://tinyurl.com/clmwhn 06 May 2009 from twitterfeed
4. 
   crestani (Brasil) Estou na contramão. Não sou a favor do “fora gilmar” simplesmente porque não se pode expelir fezes sem a participação de órgão apropriado… (I’m against the tides. I don’t support the “go away gilmar” simplely because it is not possible to get rid of excrement without the help of relevant organs…) 06 May 2009 from web
5. 
   BrunnaSouza (Goiânia) Campanha: “Ministro Gilmar Mendes saia às ruas e não volte ao STF”. http://bit.ly/rFZ1u (Campaign: “Judge Gilmar Mendes go away and do not come back to STF”). 06 May 2009 from web
6. 
   duduziuz (São Paulo) Sucesso para o povo que vai hoje à luta pelo impeachment de Gilmar Mendes! Por um Brasil mais justo #saiagilmar (Wishing success to the people going to the streets to fight for Gilmar Mendes’ impeachment! Por um Brasil mais justo #saiagilmar) 06 May 2009 from Mobile Tweete
7. 
   magal (Macaé) Ministro Gilmar Mendes, disse nesta quarta que considera normal manifestações pedindo a sua saída da presidência, pois é saia à rua ministro (judge Gilmar Mendes said this wednesday that he thinks it is normal to have demonstrations calling him to leave the presidency, yeah go to the streets, Mr Judge) 06 May 2009 from web

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Barbosa had accused Mendes of “destroying the credibility of the judicial system” and challenged Mendes to talk to the man on the street, to measure his low level of popularity. Today’s protest was “to demand that Mendes do so – and never came back”

The main tag of the day is #foragilmar, but there were also #saiagilmar and #foragilmarday. There is an reactions aggregator and the “Go Away Gilmar” campaign has its own blog in Portuguese.

Some photos by twitpic user proveisso fromthe protest in Brasilia, in front of the Supreme Court buildings:

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