This week, as the 2026 FIFA World Cup looms across Turtle Island, we're pre-sharing an interview with Jules Boykoff about one of his latest books about international sports spectacles, the upward money flow and authoritarian political power they facilitate but also a bit about the folks that are fighting back entitled Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine (O/R Books, 2026). Jules' recent memoir, Kicking Essay on FIFA Greenwashing Recent guest James Stout's book on the 1936 Peoples Olympics CONIFA alt to FIFA: Anti-Fascist Football Coalition Peoples Football Coalition NOlympics LA This conversation falls into the same series as the recent interview with Kristian Williams and Sam Schmidt as regards evacuation of public spaces and attacks on community by the state and capital in the aid of police state capitalism. . … . .. Featured Track: TFSR by The Willows Whisper
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