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Παρασκευή 13 Ιουνίου 2014

ΣΥΓΚΛΟΝΙΣΤΙΚΟ ΑΦΙΕΡΩΜΑ: Anti-FIFA & World Cup Protests in Brazil Much Bigger Than Expected – Live Blog

Rio: Protester dressed as Batman holds a sign on the Lapa Arches during a protest against the 2014 World Cup

Police Attacked protesters in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and several other host cities on Thursday as the World Cup got under way in Brazil.

Short video captures moments of protests and repression in Rio

Porto Alegre

Belo Horizonte

There were 3 doves released at the opening ceremony, when on the streets of Brazil police were attacking anti-FIFA demonstrators. Two of the doves they released during the opening ceremony hit the stands and died.

Inside FIFA Fan Fest:

Copacabana in Rio

Sao Paulo

Protests took place in 21 cities, this is Belo Horizonte.

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Protest against World Cup in Sao Paulo: Subway station is closed after police attack protesters. Estado

Sao Paulo, subway station closed by cops:

Protests take place in several spots at the same time in Sao Paulo, for now. Cup starts in less than 2 hours. Barricades have been erected where protestors were attacked by special forces of the military police. Repression forces hoped people will keep away from the streets after a year long relentless repression which culminated with activists, anarchists, antifascits and Black Block being arrested en mass. The opposite happened; thousands and thousands are spoiling FIFA’s most expensive show, which is paid by working people in Brazil anyway. 21 protests will take place today in Brazil, there is growing international solidarity with the people of Brazil against FIFA and their robocop- 200,000 strong repression army.

“There is a ghost haunting soccer in Brazil” – @nytimes

12 million without means to survive, millions of people socially excluded. Poverty inflicted as social punishment.

pic @JuhaniHeiskanen

Video: Police use tear gas and stun grenades on demonstrators in Sao Paulo, the city due to host the World Cup opening ceremony

pic via @syndicalisms

Man being violently arrested and pepper sprayed at point blank range.

Writer Paulo Coelho says he won’t attend 2014 World Cup “disaster”, says FIFA’s mega-show will cause “a social explosion“.

Everywhere in Brazil, welcoming FIFA.

Video: Protesters flip a civil police car in Belo Horizonte in response to police repression.

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CNN journalist, Barbara Arvanitidis, wounded by a shrapnel of police riot ammo, in Sao Paulo.

Protests in 21 cities in Brazil against FIFA’s World Cup.

Sao Paulo, hours before World Cup starts; there are also manifestations in dozen European countries:

Die brasilianische Militär-Polizei will mit äußerter Härte gegen Demonstrationen vorgehen. Die U-Bahn-Angestellten haben die Halten bereits zu spüren bekommen. (Foto: dpa)

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Barricades in Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo

FIFA’s uniforms in Sao Paulo, at their last briefing before they take to the streets to repress protests.

Bereit zum Kampf gegen die Bürger. (Foto: dpa)

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Eine Reiterstaffel der brasilianischen Militär-Polizei soll bei der Fußball-WM zum Einsatz kommen. (Foto: dpa)

Die brasilianische Militärpolizei bei der Vorbereitung auf die Fußball-WM. (Foto: dpa)

Solidarity with Brazil protestors from Greece: “They irrigate the grass with the blood of the poor.”

Garis will strike; their demands have not been met. FIFA may clean her garbage herself.

Cup for the rich, cops for the poor. via Gato Anarquista

Garis will strike, the army of robocops may get to sweep the streets for FIFA.

Subway station in Sao Paulo closed down after protests.

‏@TheBlogPirate: “You know Rio de Janeiro? Beautiful city with beautiful beaches, right? Well, not so beautiful… #NaoVaiTerCopa”

‪#‎Rio‬ ‪#‎ArcosdaLapa‬

Estudantina diz Fuck Fifa / on the eve of the Fifa World Cup, the Student Centre in Rio says Fuck Fifa

Pic says: “Thanks for coming to #WorldCup. People will die so you can watch a game.”

Stop World Cup ‏@StopWorldCup

Porto Alegre, Brazil, via AnonOpsBrazil

AnticapitalistⒶ ‏@AnarcAntifa “#NaoVaiTerCopa #NaoWorldCup from Milano, Italy Solidarity to Brasilian fighters against FIFA and capitalism!”

Arrests – we know of 4 in Rio, among which one is a teacher, and at least one in Sao Paulo – and many people injured by police cracking down on protests against FIFA’s world cup.