No, I'm not going to the world cup.

hi my name is Carla, I'm from Brazil and I'm here to tell you why I am not going to the World Cup. one of the reasons for making this video is that everytime I tell someone that from brazil someone in the group tells me they are going to the World Cup So we went to the streets and we asked people here in the US what came to their minds when they thought about Brazil Women, big butts, Ronaldo, soccer, soccer first, Lots of partying, lots of dancing, Hot! but here's when it gets serious, the World Cup is gonna add up to about 30 billion dollars -- that's more than the last three World Cups added together. They added up to about twenty five billion Now tell me in a country where iliteracy can reach twenty one percent and averages ten percent. A country that ranks eighty five in the human development index a country where 13 million of people are underfed every day and where many many other people die waiting for medical treatment Does that country need more stadiums? Some politicians argue that the World Cup and the olympics are just the incentive our country needed to get better Wait what? so we've been paying taxes all this years for what? What country needs an incentive to take care of its people? Suddenly there's all this money to build stadiums and the population is led to believe that the World Cup is just the change they neede for their lives to get better but the truth is that most of the money that comes from the games and the stadiums goed straight to FIFA and we don't even see it and the money that comes from tourists and investors goes straight to the hands of of those people that already have money So yeah maybe the guy who's selling ice cream on the beach will do better that week but will the event really change his life? There's more! The UPPs, the pacify police units are now going into the favelas and taking the gangs away Now where do you think they are taking those gangs to and for how long are they really gonna be gone? We call this in Brazil putting the dirt under the rug! it's a temporary solution for a much, much deeper problem. Plus, what do you think comes with samba, partying and dancing? Drugs. and where do you think those drugs come from? Guess. The gangs can quite never be away. There's more. A lot of people are being kicked out out of their houses to give space to the Olympics and the World Cup against their will their houses are just being marked every day and destroyed, that's how it's working They are given no safety, no money, no security whatsoever. They are just kicked out. Native indians were also kicked out of of what used to be the center of historical native culture and their homes. They tried to against it But were cowardly hurt by police officers with bombs, pepper sprays and all sorts of things. Now the native center will be transformed into the museum of the olympic committee What kind of democracy is this? Now don't get me wrong, I think the World Cup and the olympics are great events but they're not what our country needs right now. Look at the other nations that hosted the world cup look at the costs of maintaining what we built millions, millions per month with our public money. We do not the stadiums, we need education. We do not need Brazil to look better for the world, we need our people to have food and health. We do not need more parties, we need people with jobs and sustainable ways of living It is proven, by all billions we are now spending that we have more than enough money to change the situation. Or that at least we had it until the World Cup in the olympics i don't know what this video can do at this point, maybe you'll know, maybe someone will know But I do know that the information needs to get out there and there are not enough videos, there's not not enough information out there and it's time that we start thinking about our priorities and about what's important. So i hope you like this video i hope you share it and if you want more information about it there's a bunch of links down here Great projects about the same theme So please share and thank you for watching Our people have many reasons to be proud We have today a stable and growing economy. Within the past 8 years we elevated to the middle class 40 million Brazilians We are a country that promotes social inclusion and that has in its ethnic, cultural and religious diversity One of its biggest treasures and that lives respectfully with the environment Because of that today Brazil is admired for much more than its soccer its music and its popular parties I invite people from all over the world to get to know Brazil better and the Brazilian people You will find a country that is very well prepared to host the World Cup with all the necessary infrastructure with an efficient system of transportation with advanced technology for communication and with a lot of safety We are doing our part for the World Cup of 2014 to be the best of all times. You can be sure That this new Brazil will be ready to enchant the world in 2014