if you've been looking for a good world cup-related/anti-fifa protest song, look no further: here's a copa mata (the cup kills) by anarco funk, with video by tata zapata.anarco funk is a rio-based anarchist collective dedicated to local-style funk music (which the american mainstream media rediscovers every 3 or 4 years, most recently in a harmless but factually shaky piece in last week's nyt sunday magazine).my loose translation of the lyrics is below the video. you can find more of anarco funk's music here. tata zapata, a videomaker from medellin, colombia, has more videos here. i'll post more protest songs later (though probably not with full translations...)there will be nocup! there will be no cup!the world cup, here inbrasildominates the ball at rifle pointa war machine pacifies the favelakilling black people and poor people,suffocating themexpel the indians, theyre robbing theirlandsbuild the stadium where capital prospersincrease profits while misery grows:we declare war against the fascist cup!the cup kills...they demolished my house, now they want totake my lifethis murderous cup, this murderous cupexterminating poor folks to make the citycleanerthis murderous cup, this murderous cupgentrify, exterminate, sanitize, genocide...in the cups ballgame, in the cups ballgamethe cup entangled you.entangled in a fascist, competitive systempitting the poor against the poor, so therich will be the winnersin the cups ballgame, youre the loser.crack arrived and dominatedcrack arrived and dominatedcrack arrived and created addictscrack arrived and took holdcrack arrived and sanitizedcrack arrived and exterminatedcrack arrived and dominatedcrack arrived, crack arrived, crack arrivedand scored a goal...(fyi: crack only arrived in rio in the past decade or so. its effects have been especially devastating in communities which have also been subject to major police violence. it's also a pun on "crack" in the sense of star soccer player). on monday, the favela came downthe hill. this is bothimmediately newsworthy and not at all new: the idea of favela residents leavingtheir communities (many of which are located on hillsides) and heading down tothe city streets en masse to engage or defy the middle-class norms of life in theasphalt has been generating headlines and cliches in rio de janeiro for atleast a century. its been used todescribe everything from the spread of sambas popularity in the 1920s and 30sto shows of force by drug cartels in the early 2000s to the daily commutes ofthe maids, office workers, and the growing numbers of teachers, lawyers, anddoctors who live in the favelas. its also pretty much the de rigueur image associated withfavela-related protests, which more often than not address the state-sanctionedviolence thats been disproportionately directed at favela residents for atleast the past century (usually through police or army actions, although historically therehave been several of instances of arsonand other semi-official strategies to displace or tame favela residents).pictures of favela kids killed by police violence. photo by gas pa hamptonmondays march was noexception: as we walked along the beach at copacabana, heading from chapeumangueira to pavao/pavaozinho and cantagalo (all pacified favelas), one ofthe main chants was ih, fudeu! afavela desceu (very roughly, oooh, youre fucked! the favela came down!) the chant both mocks and plays into