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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Brazilian protesters' anger at the World Cup continues ....


and rightly so.  How can a country opt to spend untold sums of money for outward appearances when it has such a huge percentage living in abject poverty?  



Eva Hershaw of VICE writes:
.....With a scant 28 days left before the World Cup, the streets of Brazil have been filled with burning barricades, armored military vehicles, and thousands of indignant citizens demanding that their voices be heard.

In São Paulo, an estimated 1,200 protesters gathered Thursday evening on Paulista Avenue as part of the International Day of World Cup Resistance — a series of demonstrations coordinated across the country to express public discontent ahead of the mega athletic event......

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