Three workers have been killed in Brazil after a crane collapsed whilst installing part of a stadium’s roof in time for the 2014 Brazil World Cup.
Among the people marching on the streets of Fortaleza, Brazil to protest the government recently, there was a small group of four journalists, from Coletivo Nigéria (Nigeria Collective), with cameras in hand ready to document everything. The result of this work became an independent film called “Vandalism”.
There are many more revelations to come from the leaks about US spying from Edward Snowden, with journalist Glenn Greenwald testifying that he had received around 20,000 files from the American whistleblower.
The lesson from the streets of Brazil, Turkey, and the Arab world is to avoid underestimating social movements still in their infancy.
On the same day that Brazil’s national football team secured a place in the Confederations Cup final, protests occurred in at least 18 cities