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on the first day of the world cup, i posted something on facebook about how i thought you couldn't watch the games and care about human rights at the same time. a month later, i wish i had changed my mind. i would love to say that i've gotten caught up in the spirit of togetherness or just the giant fan-driven street party in rio. i would love to say that the beauty and emotion of the games had helped me see the light. but as the cup has gone on, police have gone on killing indiscriminately in rio's favelas; victims include a 3-year-old named luiz felipe who was shot in the face, and a 15-year-old who was killed execution-style (another teenager played dead and escaped). and protestors in rio have been subject to increased police violence (including live ammunition), arbitrary arrests, and intimidation. as the games have gone on, the human rights situation in rio and throughout brasil has continued to go downhill, and the cup is directly to blame.rafael marques lusvarghi, an english teacher in sao paulo, is pepper sprayed while immobilized during protests on the first day of the world cup.yesterday, two of my friends were taken into police custody where they will be held for the next five days, and another has a warrant out in his name for similar treatment, all because of their association with past protests in rio de janeiro. they are musicians, students, public school teachers, and all around good folks, and they were charged with possessing gas masks, or anti-cup pamphlets, or t-shirts connected to local protest groups. in the last 24 hours, local police have issued at least 60 "preventative" arrest warrants that will let them detain activists for 5 days with no charges, keeping them off the streets and attempting to demoralize and scare the rest of us away from participating in protests scheduled today's final game.the judge's decree that permits all that is right here. i don't have time to translate it all, but it authorizes these illegal and unconstitutional arrests for anyone that cops decide is capable of carrying out "extreme violence."before getting locked up, my friends have been tear gassed, pepper sprayed, beaten up, and dragged by cops. kids in favelas have been executed execution-style or by stray bullets. tomorrow marks exactly one year since amarildo went missing, and though we pretty much know for sure that he was tortured to death by a group of "pacifying" cops, his body has never been recovered. yet activists, not cops, are accused of "extreme violence," and now at least 20 of the 60 warrants have been served, taking activists off the streets for five days to prevent them from carrying signs and chanting.(meanwhile, a british executive for a fifa-licensed ticket agency who is suspected of perpetrating millions of dollars in fraud was released on a decree of habeus corpus 12 hours after rio cops took him in).i'm writing this en route to today's protests, so i don't have time to make it polished or especially well-written. but my point is
this: the world cup has been a fiasco for human rights in brasil since the planning stages, and it's only gotten worse in execution. the poor and disenfranchised continue to be the prime targets of state-sanctioned violence, and free expression and freedom to assemble - both guaranteed by the brasilian constitution - are arrestable offenses these days. i wish our experience here had been different, but it's increasingly clear that the beauty and drama on the field can only be maintained by a crackdown against anyone that fifa or the police perceive to be a threat.so if you're watching the final, i hope you think of my friends who are being held in jailhouses and prisons to prevent them from marching today. i hope you're thinking of luiz felipe. their freedom is the price of your spectacle. and i do hope the whole thing leaves a bit of a bad taste in your mouth, because living through the cup has certainly left a bad taste in ours.
though, itsbecome an excuse for police violence, censorship, and intimidation. the games are (finally) over now, anddaily life in rio will continue to be much more marked by the crackdown on basicrights in the citys streets unquestionably hastened by the cup than by anyof the goals scored in the stadiums. photo by guilherme carvalho
there's this idea circulating in the states that everybody in brasil spent yesterday crying. this implies that the power of soccer to bring people together has wiped out popular opposition to the cup, that it was the magic of the game - rather than the tear gas, live ammunition, and arbitrary arrests - keeping people away from protests, and that yesterday, the entire country looked more or less like the pictures on the sadbrazilians tumblr (which, incidentally, was also a huge hit here).so que nao, which is to say, not so much. plenty of people were hoping brasil would stay alive in the cup long enough to be humiliated by argentina in the final, especially after the interview in which rio's mayor, eduardo paes, told the guardian that he'd kill himself if this happened. but there are a lot of folks who loved seeing the brasilian team go down so absolutely and embarrassingly. there's still plenty of cup left to go - major protests are scheduled for the final game, which may have much larger turnout now that brasil's out of the cup - and depending on today's semi-final game, brasil could still lose to argentina in the consolation round for third place.i'll write more about this as it unfolds, but in the meantime, here's what my facebook wall looked like in yesterday:before the game, neymar's recent injury, and the nation-wide trauma it was about to evoke, was compared to the police brutality which even the mainstream media hasn't ignored recently:as well as the overpass in belo horizonte - the city that hosted the germany-brasil semi-final - that collapsed last week, killing 2 people and injuring at least thirty:in light of neymar's injury, facebook was full of reminders of the 1962 cup. when pele was injured that year, he was substituted by a player named amarildo, who helped lead brasil to a victory. last year, "pacifying" police in rocinha, rio's largest favela, tortured and [presumably] killed amarildo de souza local 47-year-old construction worker and father of four. his body still hasn't been found, but people have been pointing out that amarildo can't save brasil this time around.during the game, people joked about germany's uniforms, which were inspired by flamengo, the most popular team in rio. the idea of flamengo beating the shit out of the national team was huge, as were the messages reminding us of all the workers' movements that have been clamped down on before and during the cup. as the score crept up, someone posted: "going on strike is a right for all workers. ALL OF OUR SUPPORT GOES TO THE BRAZILIAN NATIONAL TEAM'S STRIKE!"after the game, facbeook was full of reminders that investing heavily in soccer instead of more pressing social needs looked especially stupid after a loss in the semi-finals.today we learned that germany, aside from having schools and hospitals, can also score goals.see you later, folks....and full of digs at ronaldo, former cup star and current bloviating airhead who told the press last year that a world cup victory was worth prioritizing stadiums over hospitals:it really
would have been betterto have built hospitalsmeanwhile, the attitude of inevitable victory was summed up by one unfortunate tattoo:sixth-time champion 2014and amid all the comparisons of national character, there was this:- god is brasilian- god is deadfinally, this poem was written in 1978 and has been popping up on facebook for at least a year, but it had a major resurgence last night.is the cup over? it's no big deal.farewell to kicks and systems.now we can finallytake care of our problems.there wasn't enough point inflation?real inflation continues.we'll stop being so foolishif we kick at the right target.in another tournament, the people,if they're tenacious, will win a strong and full victory,in the freedom cup.- carlos drummond de andradebrasil's cup dreams are over, but the protests it spawned are not. stay tuned...
this one isn't specifically world cup related; in fact, it's fifty years old (though this particular recording is from 1970), and it was an important protest song during the dictatorship in brasil. people still sing it all the time in the streets and in social gatherings, and its subject matter is still very current: police violence and forced evictions in poor communities (in rio, a "hill" almost always refers to a favela) may have gotten more somewhat more sophisticated, but they haven't changed much since 1964. the song is by ze keti and was originally part of opiniao, a groundbreaking political theatre piece. translation after the link.also, speaking of authoritarianism, the big news today is that the civil police have issued warrants to question several prominent local activists in rio for "information crimes" (there's an article here, but it's in portuguese and from a fairly reactionary - albeit mainstream - local paper). it's unclear at this point whether they're being held in "protective" custody and whether they'll be out on the streets for the pre-kickoff protests tomorrow.you can arrest meyou can beat meyou can even starve mei won't change my opinion:i won't leave the hillif there's no water, i'll make a wellif there's no water, i'll buy a boneto put in my soup - i'll make it worksay what you want about me,here, i don't pay rent.and if i die tomorrow, sir,i'm already close to heaven. five close friends ofmine were arrested at a protest on tuesday night in downtown rio, apparentlybecomes they were wearing facepaint and carrying empty paint cans to use aspercussion instruments. they werein the streets with the latest installment of an ongoing performance/protest thatmany of us have been working on for the past three years. they had already been frisked twice atpolice checkpoints on their way to the protest, and cleared to go ahead bothtimes, but within ten minutes of arriving outside candelaria church, they weresurrounded by a squad of riot cops, marched away from the protest, jammed together into the backseat of asedan, and driven to a police station in the north zone, thirty minutes furtherup the highway (despite the plethora of police stations around rios downtown). they werent charged with anything, but they were photographedfor a registry of people directly or indirectly involved in protestsandquestioned without being allowed to speak to a lawyer present (in obvious violation of their basic rights). more to the point, they were taken off the street for thenight (they were released after about 3 hours), and warned ominously that therewould be trouble if they were picked up again at any protests in the future.confiscated cans at tuesday's protest. photo by comite popular rio copa e olimpiadas.being slathered inpaint and banging cans are not usually arrestableoffenses in rio de janeiro, especially on empty downtown streets. actually, beingslathered in paint and making too much noise seem to be hallmarks of the soccerfan experience, especially at world cup. my friends were arrested at a march that had at most 50 other protestorsand at least 200 cops, about 3.5 miles away from maracana stadium. duringthe
to watching the games isnt just annoying and intimidating fromwhere we stand: like so much aboutthis world cup, it ought to be alarming to anyone who cares about basic humanrights.being censored isobviously not the same as being tortured or killed, but suppression andviolence go hand in hand: both arevital to creating an atmosphere of obedience based on fear. and policing based on personal tastes,criminalizing anything that lookswrong, is a guarantee for continued brutality in the future. the cops who decide that costumes andpaint can drums dont belong on an empty street arerelying on the same sort of logic that justifies killing young people of colorin favelas. its all uniformedvigilantism based on appearance, and in rio de janeiro - and throughout brasil - it seems to be getting worse.i got news of myfriends arrest on tuesday as i was arriving at the protest, and i stopped on astreet corner to trade phone numbers with mutual friends in order to get more ofus to the police station as quickly as possible. as soon as id said hello, amiddle-aged guy with big arms and a yellow-and-green t-shirt approached me,yelling for me to move on before he beat the shit out of me. i explained that i was on a publicsidewalk, and he yelled back that he didnt like me, that my friends and ideserved to die, and that i should get the fuck away. (i assume this had to do with my fabulous protest outfit, whichinvolved glitter and a raggedy red dress). 30 cops approached us, sensing a possible fight, but theywerent about to keep the peace; they only came to shout at me and egg himon. i got the fuck away. (at sunday nights protests, cops stoodby calmly while local bar patrons in the vila isabel neighborhood beat twoprotestors bloody).so: im sorry to sound like a brokenrecord, but as ive been writing for a while, this world cup is a travesty forhuman rights. as you watch thegames, some of us in brasil are being silenced in the name of order and good sportsmanship,and others are being beaten up or killed in the name of progress, pacification,and public safety. as we welcomethe world to celebrate, those who dont fit into the idea of what a countrywithout poverty (part of the federal governments official motto) is supposedto look like are being subject to policing that recalls the militarydictatorship of the 60s and 70s. thismay be what a world cup demands, but its not what democracy looks like.photo by comite popular rio copa e olimpiadas.
escape). missing amarildo at the world cupthe current regime ofpacification and the violence associatedwith it is specifically intended to make the city tourist-friendly enoughto host megaevents like the olympics and the world cup. thats not to say, though, that if theworld cup were to miraculously leave us alone tomorrow, the favelas wouldreturn to being peaceful urban utopias. they never have been, and the very real link between recent policekillings and the world cup shouldnt overshadow the fact that these communitieshave always suffered the brunt of the citys officially-approved repression andbrutality. the contrast between the party in the stadium and the tears in thefavela is not just a question of emotional opposites; its also a question oftime and permanence. this stupidcup will end on july 13 exactly 365 days after amarildo was disappeared butthe favelas tears will undoubtedly continue. in coming months, the powers that be will start to steamrollinto preparation for the olympics, and local real estate developers who arealso major political contributors are already eyeing beachfront favelas asprime targets for the next big deals. (david beckham recently bought a mansion for 1 million reais a little under us $500,000 in vidigal, onthe other side of the hill from the where amarildo was disappeared, and currently under the command of the same pacifying police unit).im not at all anexpert on favelas or on the daily experiences of people who live there: at most, ive visited friends houses, orgone to concerts or dance parties or protests. ive seen firsthand a few of the changes that have led up tothe world cup, like the large-scale destruction of houses in providencia andmanguinhos, but ive missed the worst, like the massacre in mare on june 24, 2013. still, ive been in rio long enough and seen enough to know that, althoughthe world cup is by no means the sole cause of violence or excuse for policeviolence in the favelas, both fifas demands and local governments desire fora city prepared to host the cup has undoubtedly led to a significant increasein the violence to which favela residents are so frequently subjected. mondays protest highlighted their resilience,and their resolution to speak out and to stand for themselves in a city wherethe fleeting presence of the international press keeps them much safer than the presenceof the local police ever has.photo by gizele martins
you may have heard thatcops in rio are using live ammo at protests now. there are a few cases of uniformed military police firing warning shots at protestors on sunday night during the official opening of maracana stadium, as well as footage ofan off-duty civil police officer aiming at protestors. police alsodropped tear gas canisters from helicopters, and several protestors mentionedthat the gas felt stronger than during previous protests (possibly a switch tomilitary-grade stuff, which also happened in seattle in 1999). throughout brasil, thecops are cracking down: in saopaulo, on the first day of the cup, a schoolteacher who was hit twice withrubber bullets was pepper-sprayed in the face while he was already immobilizedand in a chokehold, and in belo horizonte, a member of the midia ninjacollective was arrested and tortured by cops, who also threatened to kill himand his colleagues.there werent thatmany of us at the protest in rio on sunday night: i would say 300, friends say400, the mainstream media here says 150, and you can choose your own source. but it felt especiallyenergized, and not only because everyone was on edge even before the copsstarted pulling out the guns. maracanahas become a major symbol of everything thats gone wrong with world cuppreparations and rios reurbanization in general: its a public stadium thatwas rebuilt at a cost of R$1.6 billion (about US $600 million) before being sold at bargain basementrates to a group of private construction firms. indigenous folks living inthe defunct museum right next to the stadium land that has been deeded toindigenous people since the nineteenth century were evicted twice over thecourse of a year to make way for more parking spaces. and in the midstof these preparations, ticket prices have skyrocketed, leaving most local fans toafford tickets to games, a factor thats not physically violent but stilldeeply felt hereabouts.from the time wegathered on sunday afternoon at praca saens pena, about a mile away frommaracana, it was clear that with 300 (or 400 or 150) people, we werent evengoing to reach the stadium, let alone affect the game in any way. but it was also clearto everyone at the protest and plenty of other people who werent on thestreet with us that maracana couldnt debut as though everyone had just givenin and accepted the inevitability of the world cup. the first game in rio couldnt just be business as usual. this goes againstpretty much everything written in most mainstream media sources (at least inenglish and portuguese) since the cup began. even the guardian, which has been good at coveringprotests and public debate in brasil in the past year, ran an article contrasting protest to public security, as thoughprotestors have been a principle cause of violence in the build-up to the cup, asthough protests have disrupted what would otherwise be a happy party in a more-or-less calm city.the problem with that,of course, is that business as usual in rio has been defined by truculentpolicing and other forms of officially sanctioned violence since long beforethe protests started getting really big last june. and although rubber bullets and civilian-grade tear gas
seem to be giving way tolive bullets and military-grade stuff at the protests, all of that is still a walk in the parkcompared to what policing looks like in the favelas andoutside of the public eye. downtown protest compared to favelas. cartoon by carlos latuff, 2013as protests werepicking up steam throughout the city last year, a group of cops descended on mare,a complex of favelas, and indiscriminately killed 11 people, some with bulletsand others with bayonets. and thismarch, cops shot claudia ferreira silva, a hospital custodian and mother offour who lived in the morro da congonha favela, and then dragged her to deathafter she fell out of the trunk of the police car. ive already mentioned the disappearance and torture of amarildo silva. my point is that, like school shootings in the us, theseare not isolated incidents: theyrepresent a widespread kill em all, let god sort em out attitude in localpolicing that the world cup has both encouraged and provoked.just to be clear, myown brushes with violence are incredibly minimal by local standards. i may sometimes be a witness to all ofthis stuff, but im never really the subject of it. the closest i come is the occasional gassing when shitreally gets out of hand during protests, but i never bear the brunt of it, and itend not to be a target. a friend joked on sunday that i have an invisibilitycloak: between my white skin, thecolorful clothes i was wearing, and a hundred other factors, i could basicallywalk right past cops if i was by myself and keeping calm. it worked twice that night, when ipassed dozens of riot cops milling around back streets as i headed away fromthe helicopters, the clouds of gas, and who knows what else aroundmaracana. i fit into a vision of public security that considers protestors to be a major threat, and considersfavela residents, indigenous people, and people of color in general to be aneven bigger one. its a vision that depends on a whole lot of live ammunition and anever-present threat to use even more of it.protests and protestorsare not the main problem with the world cup; intimidation, displacement, and violence are. and im sorry to say that ifyoure hosting world cup parties and posting about the game on facebook, i think youre part ofthe problem. im not going todelete you or stop being friends with you in real life or even look at youfunny, but youre buying into a very well-produced spectacle, a spectacle thatmaintains itself locally through a belligerent cop culture that spent sundaynight aiming guns at my friends. this is not a good time to pretend that everything's ok and that the show must go on.of course the worldcup didnt introduce this vision of "public security to rio: its been going on for a long time, andit will continue long past this particular megaevent and the long slog towardthe next one (the 2016 olympics). and of course its not just rio: security and public safety throughout brasil, latin america, the us,and most of the rest of the world has come to mean
making spaces safe andcomfortable for a primarily white middle and upper class with the resources togenerate enough money to keep the public safety machine running. in rio andpretty much everywhere else reurbanizing, pacifying, and generally makingthe city ready for the world cup, the olympics, and the future installation ofmega-businesses or mega-events, has meant that the citys most vulnerableresidents have become targets of an official violence that keeps spreading andamplifying. what we saw on sundayis only a small taste of that violence, but it highlights something weve knownfor a long time: that even questioningthis paradigm of public safety and order is an act that will continue to bemet with increasingly violent intimidation and repression. and as long as thats what it takes tokeep business as usual going, well be out in the street.- using pepper spray against an immobilized man- injuring foreign journalists with bomb shrapnel- if the military police aren't afraid to act this way when the whole world is watching,- imagine what it must be like when no one sees. (pirikart)
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