By Elizabeth McKenna A flyer that circulated on social media platforms before the planned June 20 anniversary protest. Superimposed on an image of the 300,000-person march on that date one year earlier, the text reads: prepare your breath, no letting up, 2014 will be bigger. The protest was billed as “The Return of the Giant”... Continue Reading →
The Sins and Marvels of the World Cup
Pedro Peterson Pedro Peterson (left) with a fan of Chile's La Roja. Eduardo Galeano, the world’s greatest football fan-poet, once said that “football is not guilty of the sins committed in its name.” In Brazil’s World Cup, which is built on sins both shameless and grotesque, and which has been a spectacle of football both... Continue Reading →
