Soccer, football, whatever you call it—it’s not my thing at all. Give me baseball every day, 365 days a week. But, what is my thing is making sure workers in every sport aren’t exploited—and that has been a reality for years when it came to the rights of workers who worked on the staging of […]
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Episode 209: It’s Not A Game—World Cup Workers’ Rights Fight; Europeans Leap To Protect Gig Workers
Posted on 09 December 2020.
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The World Cup’s Dark Side: 37 Million People Left In Poverty
Posted on 27 June 2014.
Behind all the hoopla and fervor surrounding the World Cup, an inconvenient fact is forgotten: Brazil handed over a huge amount of money in tax breaks to the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), much of it flowing into the pockets of huge multi-national corporations–money that roughly calculated would have lifted 37 million people out of poverty.
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