Brazilian riot police evict indigenous people near Rio’s Maracanã stadium
By Jonathan Watts, March 22, 2013. Source: The Guardian Brazilian riot police armed with batons, teargas and pepper spray have forcibly evicted an indigenous community from a dilapidated museum complex...
View ArticleBrazil: strikes and protests greet World Cup
June 10, 2014. Source:WW4 Report Transit workers started an open-ended strike in São Paulo on June 5, just one week before the city, Brazil’s largest, was to host the opening game of the June 12-July...
View ArticleSport shock doctrine
By Andalusia Knoll, June 11, 2014. Source: Upside Down World Reviewed: Brazil’s Dance With the Devil: The World Cup, The Olympics and the Fight for Democracy by Dave Zirin, (Haymarket Books, May,...
View ArticleCapitalism’s bullets in Latin America: invisible empires, state power and...
By Benjamin Dangl, June 13, 2014. Source: Toward Freedom The notorious US private militia group Academi – previously known as Blackwater – trained Brazilian security forces in North Carolina in...
View ArticleBrazil: homeless win some in the World Cup
June 17, 2014. Source: WW4 Report The governments of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff and São Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad reached an agreement on June 9 with the Homeless Workers Movement (MTST)...
View ArticleRepressing World Cup protests — a booming business for Brazil
By Anna Feigenbaun, June 18, 2014. Source: Waging Non Violence On June 12, Brazilian police fired tear gas on a group of 50 unarmed marchers blocking a highway leading to the World Cup arena in São...
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