At the end of May, protests in Istanbul erupted because capital wanted to transform a public space, a park into another shopping center. And now this...



...because of this:
The spark for Brazil's escalating protests was a 2 June increase in the price of a single bus fare in Sao Paulo from 3 reals ($1.40, £0.90) to 3.20 reals.

Authorities say the rise is well below inflation, which since the last price increase in January 2011 has been at 15.5%, according to official figures.

But why not reward people for using public transportation and punish people for using cars or helicopters...
There are ways to beat the commute. Rush hour in São Paulo,Brazil, features the same gridlocked streets as many big cities, but theskies afford a brilliant display of winking lights from the helicoptersferrying the city’s upper class home for the evening. Helipads dot thetops of high-rise buildings and are standard features of São Paulo’sguarded residential compounds. The helicopter speeds the commute, bypasses car-jackings, kidnappings—and it prettifies the sky. “My favorite time to fly is at night, because the sensation is equaled only in movies or in dreams,” says Moacir da Silva, the president of the São Paulo Helicopter Pilots Association. “The lights are everywhere, as if I were flying within a Christmas tree”
From McKenzie Wark's new and excellent book The
Spectacle of Disintegration.

The one fact that must not be missed is that these protests are occurring at the end of a long period of exceptional economic expansion for Brazil. The country now has the 5th largest economy in the world.