The illustrator Nuno Saraiva has distributed almost all the posters photocopied at ARCO headquarters in Lisbon. Raise your poster and joins the demonstration that decided to go with family, including his daughter, his “most beautiful illustration” he says. This week, rightly initiated a workshop on cartoon politician in ARCO. The theme that had for its students would be a “Socrates or Ricardo Salgado.” Now time to draw will be entirely dedicated to the Charlie Hebdo .
� � “For me, Charlie Hebdo is Charlie Mensuel . It was a cartoon magazine that published the best BD artists in the mid-70s in the post-April 25, my father started buying everything that was forbidden, the magazine was about erotic overtones, and that to me . was a major influence, and in particular [Georges] Wolinski “After the shock came the response:” My desire was to use my weapons: sharpen your pencil and shove them back. Or pick up a ream of paper and throw them in the head. But I prefer to use these tools to draw “Like most about 2000 people who attended the call to Restorers, the poster with white letters on black fudo which reads” Je suis Charlie. “Summarizes what these people joined tonight,” The unit of the revolt is in this sentence, ‘Je suis Charlie’:. We are one “
appointment to Restauradores Square for the late afternoon of Thursday, convened by the Facebook social network, came from AFP journalists in Lisbon. Jerome Pin, journalist, addressed the topic with colleagues, wanted in Lisbon a protest like that that spread in various parts of the world under the motto “Je suis Charlie”. Patricia de Melo Moreira, photojournalist, created the Facebook event, we spent a few hours go from private to public in order to reach more people and join other initiatives however were on the march, as the Association of Foreign Journalists. “‘Je suis Charlie’ is to be in favor of freedom of expression, she continues, and for which I work every day. And journalists have been brutally attacked in recent times,” says the PUBLIC.
For 15 years, when Jerome was still living in France – has lived for seven years in Portugal – and looking for work, his path crossed with the Charlie Hebdo was a space open to all. , community: “They told me then: you want to go attend a meeting of the drafting Come!” collaborated occasionally with the satirical newspaper, admired its journalists, and when, on Wednesday morning, received a message from a colleague of France Press in Paris, was dismayed: “fusillade chez Charlie Hebdo : 10 morts” (“Shooting in the Charlie Hebdo : 10 dead”). “Quoi?” (” What? “), Jerome said.
” There is the shock of the death of these people, my generation grew up with the Cabu, the Charb, the Wolinski disappear so … The second shock is to realize that as in September 11 in the US to France will be a before and after January 7, 2015 “
Are you afraid that this post-attack brings more intolerance to their country of origin”. It will not facilitate an integration that no longer exists. “The older daughters, twins 11 years, that have seen the father’s state of mind. “Here in Portugal for terrorists?” Asked one of them. “For a child realize that you kill someone for a design … It is incomprehensible. For an adult makes no sense, “Jerome says.
In the square hears slogans, traffic on Liberty Avenue was partially cut. “Freedom, scream your name”, “Democracy”. At the base of the statue there is cartoons of homage to the Charlie Hebdo , some of the dozens circulating these days in social networks. There are also candles and flowers, a manifestation made watch, to defend what it is to be free. A few posters have color, like this: “A Kalashnikov against a crayon.”
At the bottom of the square, Eduarda Guardino, a primary school teacher in the School of Mira, in Amadora, holds a tablet . Away from the hundreds of people who almost two hours after the start of the vigil remain in the square, Eduarda holds a screen facing passers by. In it, a picture with black banners that many hands have written “Je suis Charlie” with white paint. The teacher brought this square children seven years, who today gave a lesson in freedom.
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