The Anti Fascist Football Coalition Unanimously Joins the Call for a Boycott of the World Cup
For Immediate Release
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On May 28th, the Black Alliance for Peace and its North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights called on the international community to withdraw all support for the World Cup Games through an international boycott. The call lays out the stark illegitimacy of the U.S. as a World Cup host. A country that is brutally attacking the humanity and sovereignty of nations throughout the world in their ongoing quest for full spectrum domination - in its violent attacks on Cuba and Iran, while holding captive the President of Venezuela and violently pressing its Zionist project for colonial expansion in Gaza - remains, with ample evidence, an illegitimate and dangerous host for the World Cup Games.
The Anti-Fascist Football Coalition, the international body of 32 organizations strategically coordinating to Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S., has expressed unanimous support of this position and has chosen to echo this call as the Campaign advances. “This is a historic, strategic decision which lays the foundations for deeper long-term implications that transcend U.S borders,” said Coalition member Camilo Pérez-Bustillo of the International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement, based in Mexico City.
Coalition member Maraky, of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, added, “By hosting the games in the U.S., FIFA is celebrating the U.S. as the greatest violators of human rights on the planet and further normalizing U.S. acts of genocide, war, and intensified repression. Nuance, balance, and moderation are not an option when they align, whether consciously or not, with Western and U.S. imperialism.”
In addition to the massive violations of the U.S. on human rights globally, Coalition organizations are feeling the material impacts of host city preparations as heightened tactics of surveillance, mass repression, and captivity are put into place, amplified by the Supreme Court’s green light for the state’s militarized agents to use racial profiling as a basis to enforce violence.
The Anti-Fascist Football Coalition calls on organizations and individuals to join us in this call to Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S., standing firmly against FIFA’s complicity of U.S. violations of human rights.
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