Talk:Homeless Workers' Movement

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Ok, here are the problems with the sources.

1. The Veja source does not call the Homeless Workers' Movement left-wing or far-left, so that source is a big 'no-no'.
2. The source from Gazeta do Povo is just an opinion piece, written a
   WP:RSOPINION: "some sources may be considered reliable for statements as to their author's opinion, but not for statements asserted as fact"). Not only Gazeta do Povo
   is known for spreading fake news and lacking fact checking, but also is currently being even investigated by a parliamentary commission of inquiry in Congress.
3. The only source that appears to call the Homeless Workers' Movement as being "far left is the Revista Oeste one, however again, it's not an independent piece and lacks
   WP:SCHOLARSHIP
   .

Thus for, to call a group "far-anything", it must be beyond the opinion of a couple of journalists and what makes it worse is when said journalists are known for only writing opinion pieces. But it's also important to notice that these sources fail to even categorically call the group left wing, so it fails even basic