France, Federation Anarchiste (FA) -Against the World Cup football! Nao will ter copa! (fr, pt)

Motion adopted at the 72nd Congress of the Anarchist Federation meeting in St-Imier 7, 8 
and 9 June 2014 ---- Anarchist Federation, meeting in its 72nd Congress in St-Imier in 
Switzerland signs and associated himself with the text published by Fenikso Nigra, Boletim 
Oper?rio, Liga Sindical Oper?ria Camponesa, Dan?as das Id?ias, Caos em Fluxo, Barricada 
libertaria. ---- We give our full support to the campaign by anarchists and populations 
against brazil world cup soccer. ---- World Cup given to our country by Fifa an expense at 
the time this letter was written, from 25.6 billion reais, equivalent to $ 11.5 billion. 
Of this amount, over 83% came from public funds - tax money from the people themselves. 
The minimum wage in Brazil is 724 reais per month ($ 325), tickets for the games can go up 
to almost a thousand dollars. Brazilian worker pays for an event which can not itself 
unable to attend. According to a recent survey, 75.8% of Brazilians are opposed to 
investments made for this World Cup.

Our country still has 3.7 million children and adolescents out of school and an illiteracy 
rate of 10%, according to Unesco. As if the deficiencies in education were not enough, the 
government introduced school holidays during the World Cup. We live in a country where 
more than 242,000 families have no electricity, let alone the public health is far from 
being acceptable, while the idol of football, "phenomenon" Ronaldinho said publicly that 
"with hospitals we do not do the World Cup."

Today, we live in an extremely difficult economic environment, we have one of the highest 
in the world tax rates, but nearly 50% of our GDP is used to pay an absurd public debt, 
while people die hunger, and nearly half the wealth we produce goes directly into the 
pockets of a few bankers, not to mention that we are losing because of corruption and 
mismanagement of public funds.

Overspending on the World Cup are just the tip of the iceberg; on behalf of the Cup, many 
civil rights have been violated, which is not unusual in a country where we have a highly 
militarized police force that has already been the subject of many critical international 
institutions such as Amnesty International and the UN itself, which even made a 
recommendation to dissolve PM (Brazilian military police).

Communities near the stadiums will undergo a conspicuous and ferocious police, including 
the presence of the army, not to ensure the safety of the people, but to ensure the safety 
of you, tourists, as is already the case Complexo da Mar?, which is already occupied by 
the army, navy and military police, a total of over 2,500 men. The right to housing has 
not escaped the eyes of the government and FIFA: thousands of families have been displaced 
due to the event, including indigenous families Aldeia Maracan?, which despite their 
resistance, were displaced violently.

This is not new to us either in the "democratic" regime in which we live, to see military 
intervention in the construction of a plant in the heart of the Amazon (Belo Monte) for 
prevent protests of indigenous peoples and local communities affected by the dam. In 
addition, to build the stadiums in time for the World Cup, more than a dozen workers died 
in construction sites. In addition to all these problems, child prostitution in the 
country is still a reality that affects approximately 500,000 children according to the 
National Forum for the Prevention and Elimination of Child Labour. This scenario is 
potentially exacerbated by holding the Cup.

Many of us are outraged and taking to the streets to protest, but the government, well 
supported by the media, trying to drown it all in criminalizing and repressing 
demonstrations hard with his military unit. International NGOs and organizations have 
denounced several violations of human rights.

The State and its partisan administrations do not respond and do not meet the needs of 
people in health, education, housing, employment that we won through our unity and our 
struggles. Get this letter as a request for support, share this information with as many 
people as possible, help us to show the world a reality that the government, FIFA and 
sponsors of the World Cup trying to hide at all costs.