Tag: City Agreements & Funding
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A Technofascist World Cup? Part III: Policing the Perimeter
-by Carolyn Prouse Algorithmic Policing Beyond the Stadium For the World Cup it is not just data but surveillance technology itself that seeps out of the sports stadium into its surrounds. In the first post for this series I discussed how digital technologies are mediating (and even harming) the game we love and, for the…
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Vancouver’s Pivot Legal Society 2nd blog post: What has FIFA’s Human Rights Framework Amounted to? – Part 2
-by Pivot Legal Society in Vancouver, BC; reposted with permission – access original here Just two weeks ahead of the first 2026 World Cup match, Vancouver released its final FIFA Human Rights Action Plan. The Plan, dated May 25, 2026, updated a February draft that Pivot and a coalition of allied organizations had heavily criticized. Though the…
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Beyond the World Cup Noise in Toronto: Anti-FIFA Voices Make Themselves Heard
Photo above: Organisers from Reclaim the Game take control of a street for a football free from FIFA. Credit: Reclaim the Game By: Priyansh On the opening matchday of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Toronto, it was a noisy downtown. While any resident in the area would tell you bursts of blaring sounds is…
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FIFA Fails to Red Card U.S. Immigration Policy
On June 6, 2026, Iraq forward Aymen Hussein was detained for almost seven hours by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. After hours of questioning, undergoing “additional inspection”, and having his […]
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Vancouver’s Pivot Legal Society releases the first of their blog post series titled “FIFA on the Block: The Games, the Streets, and the Moment – Part 1”
-Pivot Legal Society Reposted with permission from Pivot. Access original here along with a sign up for the Legal Observer Program and further resources. The FIFA 2026 World Cup Games are less than five weeks from descending on Vancouver, sparking much foreboding – and for good reason. Mega sporting events are notorious for inviting a…
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Sunrise Movement: KC Against the World Cup
By: Sunrise Movement KC Why this zine: Sunrise Movement KC began the zine series because local officials have framed the World Cup as “next big thing” for Kansas City: hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup. But as city leaders continue to celebrate the tournament as a source of prestige, development, and economic opportunity, we see the…
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Atlanta 2026 World Cup Human Rights Plan Tracker
By: Declan Abernethy Since the 1960s, Atlantan political and business leaders have repeatedly turned to sport to boost the city’s national and global image and solve long running economic issues downtown. In pursuit of such change, these projects, though, came at a great cost and ignored resident pushbacks. In 1966, 948 families in the Rawson-Washington Project were displaced so Atlanta could build…
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Fora, FIFA! Intro to the 2026WCW Collective
Welcome to 2026 World Cup Watch! We are a collaborative effort to build knowledge, connection, and solidarity across communities living with and resisting the harmful impacts of FIFA World Cup 2026 (FWC26) in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. We’ve come together at a time of growing public outrage at FIFA and the World Cup.…