quarta-feira, 11 de junho de 2014

anti-world cup dance party

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 medellín, colombia, has more videos here.  i'll post more protest songs later (though probably not with full translations...)




there will be no cup!  there will be no cup!

the world cup, here in brasil
dominates the ball at rifle point
a war machine “pacifies” the favela
killing black people and poor people, suffocating them

expel the indians, they’re robbing their lands
build the stadium where capital prospers
increase profits while misery grows:
we declare war against the fascist cup!

the cup kills...

they demolished my house, now they want to take my life
this murderous cup, this murderous cup
exterminating poor folks to make the city cleaner
this murderous cup, this murderous cup

gentrify, exterminate, sanitize, genocide...

in the cup’s ballgame, in the cup’s ballgame
the cup entangled you.
entangled in a fascist, competitive system
pitting the poor against the poor, so the rich will be the winners
in the cup’s ballgame, you’re the loser.

crack arrived and dominated
crack arrived and dominated
crack arrived and created addicts
crack arrived and took hold
crack arrived and sanitized
crack arrived and exterminated
crack arrived and dominated
crack arrived, crack arrived, crack arrived

and 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).

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