Why We Oppose FIFA
Mega sports events like FIFA give governments and corporations a profitable pretext to accelerate and exacerbate existing inequities. Today, Seattle residents face relentless repression and increasing instability, including but not limited to: surveillance; excessive and violent sweeps; exclusion zones; arbitrary and dehumanizing ICE raids; check-points; authoritarian crack-downs on political dissent; and power being stripped away from renters while empowering land-owning elites.
Corruption
Surveillance
Human Rights Violation
Public Money for Private Benefit
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Evergreen Echo 11/13/25
Protect Our Pitch 206 Encourages Neighborhoods to Discuss World Cup Impacts
International Examiner 12/1/25
Community groups grapple with and benefit from the upcoming 2026 World Cup