Info-Talk: FIFA Worldcup in Brazil

What do you imagine when someone says ‘Brazil’? Carnaval, sunny beach and football? Very well – because of this wide spread Brazil’s reputation as a football country you wouldn’t be surprised it will host the FIFA World Cup this summer. But what could surprise you are disturbing facts surrounding this event: about 30 billion US dollars spended by Brazilian government for the preparations of the event in the situation of poor health care, public education, public transportation etc. in the country; more than 250 thousand persons evicted from ther homes; zero taxes for FIFA which expects billions dollars profit from the event… Majority of Brazlians can see absurdity of all this and prepare themselves to protest. But the state is aware of this and mobilize police forces, considering protesters as terrorists. Probably there will be many badly injured or even dead protesters in time of the event. How FIFA security counselor Andre Pruis stated to the journalists, the rubber bullets are considered as „low level activity“: „It can hurt but what is police going to use? Gun toys? Water canons? This doesn’t function from certain point on.“ We shouldn’t ignore what is going on even so far away from us. We should do something about it! Let’s meet and talk about the World Cup, situation in Brazil and possibilities of supporting our Brazilian comrades. Our weapon is solidarity!