but changes around the migrant labor policy in qatar because of all the attention put on the country. and that is always the hope. sunlight is the best disinfectant. so, perhaps highlighting these issues can, in fact, provoke change. but another outcome that i think is important, and this relates to something that was said before the break, is, you know, if we speak about qatar and bribery and fifa, i mean, look. show me a fifa bid that did not involve bribery in the last 100 years. and i ll find you an honest man in casablanca, as they said in ghost. this is a dirty business, and every country has gotten its hands dirty in it, because the profits are so incredible. but what comes out of it, in addition to an amazing global event, is debt displacement and the militarization of public space. so, what we re seeing in qatar is not that different, for example, than what i saw on the ground in brazil in 2014.
the nation magazine and author of the book brazil s dance with the devil, the world cup, the olympics and the struggle for democracy democracy. you re not supervised. i ap not surprised. you mentioned some of the statistics. 250,000 people it is estimated displaced by stadium construction. there is an expression in brazil that statistics are like a man s thong. they show so much but they hide the most important parts. in this case the most important parts are an economic agenda of debt displacement and the militarization of public space that allowed soccer and the world cup to be used as a neo liberal trojan horse to push through infrastructure projects people would have otherwise rejected. the difference in brazil is in 2013 millions of people took to the streets to oppose this with a rather beautiful slogan. fifa, the organization that oversees fascial soccer says we want fifa-quality staid yups.
i m going up june 2 to speak about this. people are saying you know, we see what s happened in other places. we see the debt displacement and militarization. do we haver more of oh that? boston is a city which has seen a lot of displacement, gentrification. for them, they might call debt displacement and militarization a tuesday. it s like super sizing the urban issues people are dealing with in boston. making it super tuesday. exactly. super tuesday. we have had ideas about baltimore and building football and baseball stadiums as a substitute for urban policy. are you see it all over the united states. the olympics and world cup is the same economic agenda. with the same lies, nefarious tactics but it s super sized. is there a way to do it ethically? people love the world cup the olympics. they have to be somewhere. i think there is an ethical way. the best way to do it would be