sportsevent:the fifa world cup

MARAKÁ’NÀ

The #Maracanã stadium is not only a space for leisure but, above all, a space of struggle. In this documentary, the Grupo Popular Pesquisa em Ação explores the struggle for education, for housing, for indigenous rights, against capital development. This is a story similar to many struggles throughout Brazil, against the mega-events and the development model imposed from above.
This video narrates the events using testimonies of the protagonists and historical images. The main objective of this project is to analyze the resistance practices developed against the FIFA World Cup #2014, in Rio de Janeiro. This analysis is contextualized with the collection of crucial historical testimonies, reports of all the #violence and abuses that occur due to the FIFA World Cup 2014. The video is geographically centered around the area of the Maracanã stadium, one of the areas where the contradictions of the development model characterized by the state of exception came to light and where several resistance strategies have emerged.
Around the Maracanã stadium took please different fights: for the Indigenous place Aldeia Marakana, for the #Favela_do_Metrô_Mangueira, for the public buildings around and the social movement #Não_Vai_ter_Copa - There won’t be a world cup.

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A World Cup for the people
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The Africans, already underrepresented, withered away during the Group stage. Even VAR, invented to clean up the game, could not save Nigeria.

Nigerian players at the end of their team’s 2-1 loss to Argentina.

The FIFA World Cup of neo-liberalism is living up to its expectations What is it that dampened my enthusiasm about the FIFA World Cup? I need more and more time and money to follow the game as it is getting out of reach, being standardized, sanitized, and controlled by a few for global consumption. Tickets and travel cost more; TV the same, with increased fees under the guise of customization. Probably not just one thing. I watch the same players all year round. The media hype them up and raise our (...)

Scores of migrant workers evicted as #Qatar renovates
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Expelled from housing in a #Doha district undergoing modernization, scores of migrant workers have been left homeless, some of them left to sleep on the streets of energy-rich Qatar’s capital. The Gulf state has been under international pressure to clamp down on violations of the rights of migrant workers, who are mostly Asian, as Doha embarks on massive projects before it hosts the FIFA World Cup in 2022. “We were in our rooms when police arrived and gave us one hour to leave with all our belongings,” said construction worker Mohammed Faruq. “That night we slept on the road.” read more

Policemen of the “Choque” special unit security fo... - Live Blogs - Al Jazeera English
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Policemen of the “Choque” special unit security forces get ready for the FIFA World Cup, in Flamengo beach in Rio de Janeiro [EPA]