Brazil braces for uneasy start to World Cup as strikers’ protests grip São Paulo [via Facebook]
“The Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, who faces re-election in October, has declared security to be a priority, suggesting unnamed forces are conspiring against her. ;Today, there is a systematic campaign against the World Cup – or rather, it is not against the World Cup but rather a systematic campaign against us,’ the president said during a speech in the host city of Porto Alegre at the weekend.”
You’re damned right it’s against you, and everything that police-state government and corporate-state spectacles like the World Cup represent.
Down with FIFA. Down with the Brazilian government. Up with the strikers.
Brazil braces for uneasy start to World Cup as strikers’ protests grip São Paulo
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- —Rad Geek