Well, now that the Cup competition has got off to such a scintillating start, you don't hear too much about the protests or the 'downside' of the Cup on our media do you - or maybe I'm tuning into the wrong places? Neither do you hear much of the upside either - at least in off-the-ball activity. Found this success story today: 'Group scores victory in land protest'.An informal settlement dubbed the 'People's Cup', organised by Brazil's Homeless Workers' Movement on a hill overlooking Friday's opening match in Sao Paolo, has been agreed to be turned over to provide 2000 low-cost housing units. A victory for the people it seemed, yet not one I could find reported in local New Zealand media.
The closest reference I found was in the NZ Herald to a political scientist observing that 'federal officials recently convinced a large activist group of homeless workers to not demonstrate during Cup'.
(Photo: Protestors in Sao Paolo. Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images)
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