tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42813127564835471312024-03-12T16:32:57.510-07:00Blending The LinesEstreito Meioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394860058952396596noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281312756483547131.post-16295162261016383822011-05-07T23:06:00.000-07:002011-05-08T23:57:45.653-07:00In Brazil: Dumped for the World Cup<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlZJZ3Fp6s9R6ykefodInpBRfSsVJwFw2vLOTO8p9wI8ZrQAVPraGvuFIo-KmYXOjzRxy4kX0AoTwns0CdGIUFKguZHPg9a7pSyhMaEJxei5bLgBl5wzfWhBSPyg8l3Xtf8I90KZh_oSZH/s1600/IMG_8913.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlZJZ3Fp6s9R6ykefodInpBRfSsVJwFw2vLOTO8p9wI8ZrQAVPraGvuFIo-KmYXOjzRxy4kX0AoTwns0CdGIUFKguZHPg9a7pSyhMaEJxei5bLgBl5wzfWhBSPyg8l3Xtf8I90KZh_oSZH/s200/IMG_8913.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604606423685406754" border="0" /></a><br />Brazilian authorities are <a href="http://coletivocatarse.blogspot.com/2011/05/vila-chocolatao-as-vesperas-da-remocao.html">forcibly removing</a> more low-income Brazilian communities in the name of the 2014 World Cup; this time in Porto Alegre’s Chocolatão—a neighborhood involved in the city's participatory budgeting, which appears in our documentary, <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.beyondelections.com/">Beyond Elections</a>. The community will be evicted this week. If you speak Portuguese, here's a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3LltoY1f-s&feature=player_embedded#at=13">short video</a> on the situation and the injustice.<br /><br />As the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics approach, the reality for the residents of the Chocolatão is being repeated across the country. Here are a couple of articles on this issue I wrote over the last year and a half, (<a href="http://newamericamedia.org/2010/12/rio-crackdowncleaning-up-drug-gangs-to-create-the-olympic-city.php"><span style="font-style: italic;">Rio Crackdown - Cleaning up Drug Gangs to Create the Olympic City</span></a> & <a href="http://upsidedownworld.org/main/brazil-archives-63/2316-brazils-world-cup-development-debacle-"><span style="font-style: italic;">Brazil's World Cup Development Debacle</span></a>). This is a <a href="http://www.vjmovement.com/truth/322">video</a> my partner and I produced for VJ Movement in 2009. Here's a more recent article from <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/11/rio-brazil-slum-forced-evictions"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Guardian</span></a> (UK), and the New York-based human rights organization <a href="http://blog.witness.org/2010/11/brazil-megaevents-and-forced-evictions/">Witness</a> is also doing some important media work to help raise awareness of the issue. Stay tuned. The illegitimate evictions will only multiply as we approach the upcoming mega-events.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Image of the front entrance to the Chocolatão. </span>Estreito Meioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04394860058952396596noreply@blogger.com0