Editing Diretas Já (section)

==Participants==
The movement brought together diverse elements of Brazilian society. Participants came from a broad spectrum of political parties, trade unions, civil, student and journalistic leaderships. Politicians involved included [[Ulysses Guimarães]], [[Tancredo Neves]], [[André Franco Montoro]], [[Fernando Henrique Cardoso]], [[Mário Covas]], [[Teotônio Vilela (politician)|Teotônio Vilela]], [[Dante de Oliveira]], [[José Serra]], [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]], [[Eduardo Suplicy]] and [[Leonel Brizola]]. The movement also included artists such as [[Milton Nascimento]], [[Fernanda Montenegro]], [[Gilberto Gil]], [[Bruna Lombardi]], [[Fafá de Belém]], and [[Chico Buarque de Holanda]]. Journalists such as [[Henfil]], [[Osmar Santos]] and [[Eliel Ramos Maurício]] covered the assemblies for periodicals ''[[Diário de Sorocaba]]'' and ''[[Folha de Itapetininga]]''. Football team [[Sport Club Corinthians Paulista|Corinthians]], already well known for activism with their [[Corinthians Democracy]] movement, printed "{{Lang|pt|Diretas Já|italic=no}}" on the back of their jerseys. Sectors of the [[Catholic Church]], as well as other religions, also supported the movement.<ref name="Markun">{{cite web | url=http://www.bradoretumbante.org.br/historia/diretas-ja | title=Diretas Já - Comício do Anhangabaú, em 16/04/1984 | work=Brado Retumbante | publisher= [[Drupal]] |author=Paulo Markun |author-link=:pt:Paulo Markun | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180425071256/http://www.bradoretumbante.org.br/historia/diretas-ja | archivedate=April 25, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>