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, by CARLESS Will
From the front steps of Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Theater, the ballet company danced, and opera singers belted out the strident “Carmina Burana.”
It was last month, and the show was an artistic public protest. The performers, all state employees, haven’t been paid for weeks and won’t be (…)
, by BOYKOFF Jules
It might not be captured on primetime Olympic coverage, but Brazilians are welcoming the Games with mass protest.
When Brazil’s interim president Michel Temer announced the opening of the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics on Friday, he was met with boos. Speaking as fast as a voiceover at the end of a (…)
, by Reuters
Relay involving mayor is forced to divert with police using pepper spray and rubber bullets to clear a path through protests.
Police used stun grenades and tear gas to clear protesters in the path of the Olympic torch in a poor suburb of Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, two days before South (…)
, by ZIRIN Dave
The disaster in Brazil is an extreme version of what happens when the International Olympic Committee comes to town.
There’s an old expression in Brazil: “it is for the English to see.” This means the country’s elites will construct, when necessary, a veneer for Global North outsiders. This (…)
, by TALBOT Adam
From police killings to forced evictions and environmental destruction; the Olympic Games in Rio are cause for an alphabet soup of misery and suffering.
A is for Anti-terrorism laws that were implemented prior to the Games. This means that political protest against the Olympics (and protest (…)
, by BOYKOFF Jules
The Rio Olympics are taking to the extreme the overblown promises and neoliberal development now typical of the games.
The 2016 Rio Olympics start next month, and the lead-up is getting downright gruesome. A couple weeks ago, mutilated body parts washed up on Copacabana Beach, just meters (…)
, by ZIRIN Dave
The majority of the members of Brazil’s Congress are under investigation or facing charges. Of course the Olympics are corrupt.
For months, the disconnect in Brazil has been stunning. High-profile judicial inquiries into government corruption have implicated the nation’s most powerful (…)
, by ZIRIN Dave
FIFA boss Sepp Blatter was strutting like a rooster over the weekend about the absence of mass protests during Brazil’s World Cup. “Where is all this social unrest?” he asked in mocking snark that, along with bribery and corruption, has become his trademark. Then Blatter waxed rhapsodic about (…)
, by ZIRIN Dave
When I was in Brazil for those first days of the World Cup, I was—with many other journalists—tear gassed by military police. I saw sleek, urban-outfitted tanks in the streets and I felt concussion grenades send subsonic shrapnel crashing into my eardrums. I didn’t see the drones flying (…)
, by ZIRIN Dave
A thirteen-year-old boy from Brazil’s Guarani tribe makes a political stand in front of 70,000 soccer fans and what he thinks is an international audience. A movement led by indigenous women in the United States beats a billion-dollar brand of the big, bad NFL . These two stories share more than (…)
, by Survival
Indigenous boy protests on pitch during World Cup opening ceremony 16 June 2014
One of the three Brazilian children who released white doves during the World Cup opening ceremony used the occasion to demand recognition of Indian land rights – but his protest was censored by FIFA.
Immediately (…)
, by MACHADO João, SILVA Fernando (Tostão)
Fernando Silva is at present the general secretary of the PSOL and a member of the National Coordination of Insurgência (a current within the PSOL). This interview with João Machado was first published in the newspaper of the NPA in France, l’Anticapitaliste .
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João (…)
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