The Poor People's World Cup
Cut the Olympics! | 13.06.2010 22:12 | Repression | Social Struggles | World
Poor people are excluded from the World Cup.
Fisherpeople who were normally allowed to fish from the piers in Durban, a struggle for which they fought very hard—it was one of the sort of key demands for certain people in the anti-apartheid struggle, is the freedom to be able to fish wherever you like— those rights have been rolled back for the duration of the World Cup.
Fisherpeople who were normally allowed to fish from the piers in Durban, a struggle for which they fought very hard—it was one of the sort of key demands for certain people in the anti-apartheid struggle, is the freedom to be able to fish wherever you like— those rights have been rolled back for the duration of the World Cup.
Civil rights have been suspended in some places. There was meant to be a protest in Johannesburg demanding education rights for everyone. But the government has denied the protest permission to march, because the police are otherwise occupied guarding the tourists and making sure that FIFA’s property and intellectual property is being safely guarded.
"Upside Down World Cup": Raj Patel on How South Africa Has Cracked Down on the Poor and the Shack Dwellers’ Movement Ahead of the World Cup
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/11/upside_down_world_cup_raj_patel
The Poor People's World Cup
http://www.abahlali.org/node/7067
ANC Intimidation Tries to Prevent the Return of AbM & the KRDC to Kennedy Road
http://www.abahlali.org/node/7068
"Upside Down World Cup": Raj Patel on How South Africa Has Cracked Down on the Poor and the Shack Dwellers’ Movement Ahead of the World Cup
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/11/upside_down_world_cup_raj_patel The Poor People's World Cup
http://www.abahlali.org/node/7067 ANC Intimidation Tries to Prevent the Return of AbM & the KRDC to Kennedy Road
http://www.abahlali.org/node/7068
Cut the Olympics!