We NEVER agree with this local activist blog . . . HOWEVER . . . There's no denying the apt and cutting criticism of this quote from an urban core perspective . . .
Every World Cup leaves something behind. New stadiums, new debt, new monuments to a month the host city will spend years paying off. Kansas City’s monument is a jail.
It is the only one of the sixteen 2026 host cities across the world building new detention infrastructure for the tournament, a so-called temporary facility raised by the same military contractor that built the cages at Guantanamo Bay. And to write its official plan for protecting human rights during the games, the city consulted Nike, Commerce Bank, the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Department of Homeland Security among others . . .
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
Kansas City Consulted the Agency Running ICE Raids For Its World Cup Human Rights Plan - The Kansas City Defender
Organizers from nine host cities previewed an independent readiness scorecard this morning, one scored not by officials but by the people who have to live with the result.
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