Worldwide Information Blogger Luc Schrijvers: World: Brazil : UPDATES : part 3 Brutal Repression World Cup Protests & Of Anti-FIFA :68 Arrested, 37 Wounded

photo by Ruy Barros; Sao Paulo, June 12 2014. Black Bloc resistance after police attacked protestors demonstrating against FIFA’s World Cup.

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Video via Jornal Midia Independente: Arrests en mass at gunpoint by the military police for protesting FIFA, the person who filmed this was later approached, interrogated and searched for just for questioning what was going on. Police have guns in their hands. During search, they find terrible weapons: books. Also, check the blog about a journalist from Midia Ninja being arrested and beaten by cops while live streaming protests. This is FIFA:

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15 police beating an activist, knowing they are filmed: “At the end of the demonstration against the World Cup in Copacabana, Nadini Carega Collective activist Mariachi (independent journalism) which until then was doing livestream is accused of setting fire to a dumpster. Another activist of the same group, Wilson Ventura, hugs to protect a more violent approach to the officer who wanted to take the precinct. At this time, fifteen policemen begin to encircle and Wilson tries to protect the cowardly attack with his body. He is with several wounds from the blows and kicks. She is well despite some bruises. But perhaps she would not be alive if he had received any blows directly. As the person that sent the video said: “If this is the” right to protest “the president Dilma mentioned in his speech, I need not know more what the” right to cowardly repression.”

This is football: members of Germany’s football team posing with armed police. pic via Eisbrecher W-tal

via GAPP: “The moment when the riot shock troops cruelly hit two of our first reporters and several people from the press. We were helping two people inside the gas station, a foreign journalist and an observer with the leg torn apart by shrapnel of tear gas grenade, when the troops demanded that we move immediately. We argued that it was not the time to move the victims and the police response was “GOING to MOVE NOW or we MOVE YOU” in the blows of a truncheon. We thank the blue helmet press Member who helped protect the two volunteers from the GAPP coming out of the post, one carrying the other, who had dislocated his wrist by violence of PM.””

How the number of people who attended “FIFA fun fest” was counted.

Activists from Coletivo Mariachi arrested and brutalized.

Check out the latest episode of “it’s the end of the world as we know it” from submedia.tv (aka The Stimulator), which includes a segment on the World Cup:

Destroy FIFA! The battle against the World Cup in Brazil. from the stimulator on Vimeo.

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protest its demolition as part of renovations ahead of the World Cup Brazil.

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Rio: Protester dressed as Batman holds a sign on the Lapa Arches during a protest against the 2014 World Cup

Police Attacked protesters in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and several other host cities on Thursday as the World Cup got under way in Brazil.

Short video captures moments of protests and repression in Rio

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Journalists with Coletivo Mariachi getting arrested by the police for reporting on social media the protests against FIFA:

How cops arrested a professor demonstrating against FIFA’s WC in Rio de Janeiro.

Switzerland:

Demonstration and repression in Porto Alegre:

Porto Alegre

Belo Horizonte

There were 3 doves released at the opening ceremony, when on the streets of Brazil police were attacking anti-FIFA demonstrators. Two of the doves they released during the opening ceremony hit the stands and died.

Inside FIFA Fan Fest:

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Copacabana in Rio

Sao Paulo

Protests took place in 21 cities, this is Belo Horizonte.

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Protest against World Cup in Sao Paulo: Subway station is closed after police attack protesters. Estado

Sao Paulo, subway station closed by cops:

Protests take place in several spots at the same time in Sao Paulo, for now. Cup starts in less than 2 hours. Barricades have been erected where protestors were attacked by special forces of the military police. Repression forces hoped people will keep away from the streets after a year long relentless repression which culminated with activists, anarchists, antifascits and Black Block being arrested en mass. The opposite happened; thousands and thousands are spoiling FIFA’s most expensive show, which is paid by working people in Brazil anyway. 21 protests will take place today in Brazil, there is growing international solidarity with the people of Brazil against FIFA and their robocop- 200,000 strong repression army.

“There is a ghost haunting soccer in Brazil” – @nytimes