{"id":40296,"date":"2014-06-10T09:48:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=40296"},"modified":"2014-06-10T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T16:48:04","slug":"brazils-dance-with-the-devil-the-world-cup-the-olympics-and-the-fight-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/06\/10\/brazils-dance-with-the-devil-the-world-cup-the-olympics-and-the-fight-for-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s Dance With The Devil: The World Cup, The Olympics, and The Fight for Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140610Uprising\/2014_06_10_world_cup_soccer.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Dave Zirin <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140610Uprising\/2014_06_10_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/dave_zirin_brazil.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Signs advertizing World Cup Soccer viewing are popping up outside bars and restaurants in fashionable neighborhoods around the US. Brazil is hosting this year&#8217;s World Cup, and while that honor once heralded Brazil&#8217;s entry into the modern world of progress among developed nations, today it is symbolic of that nation&#8217;s stark wealth inequality. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, police in Sao Paolo fired rounds of ammunition to deter a group of a few hundred protesters who had gathered in solidarity with striking subway workers. The action was just the latest in nearly round-the-clock demonstrations in various cities. Of the 200 million plus population of Brazil, a whopping 75% support protests against the industry associated with the World Cup that has led to their country spending far more on huge stadiums than education or poverty alleviation. <\/p>\n<p>Now, a new book by progressive sports writer Dave Zirin, tears apart the multitude of challenges facing Brazil&#8217;s government in the context of the World Cup, but also the Olympics which Brazil will host in 2 years. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Dave Zirin, sports editor for the Nation and the author of Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down, host of the weekly Sirius XM show Edge of Sports Radio. His new book is called Brazil&#8217;s Dance With The Devil: The World Cup, The Olympics, and The Fight for Democracy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signs advertizing World Cup Soccer viewing are popping up outside bars and restaurants in fashionable neighborhoods around the US. Brazil is hosting this year&#8217;s World Cup, and while that honor once heralded Brazil&#8217;s entry into the modern world of progress among developed nations, today it is symbolic of that nation&#8217;s stark wealth inequality. On Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40306,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40296\/revisions\/40306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}