KC Activists Rebuke World Cup Whilst Most Americans Don't Care

At the outset of local kickball mania, we share important fact checks sent by way of our beloved blog community.

First, here's a look at the political science . . .  

The Hill: Nearly half of Americans not interested in World Cup 

And then . . .

Kansas City environmental activists call out political elite for irrational exuberance over World Cup and cite this town as a "point of extraction" for desperately needed local resources.

Here's the word . . .  

Collected here is just some of the reporting on World Cup impacts on our city. While leaders brag about being a “world class city,” in actuality, they are stripping our resources from us so that FIFA can have its way with our home. 

It reveals a classic pattern of extraction where power is leveraged for the benefit of the few by taking from the many. Just like with the billionaire ballpark, our new jail, and our underfunded transit system, city decision makers are selling us out: allowing our homes and our resources to be extracted for the faux prestige ascribed by hosting World Cup games. 

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Sunrise Movement KC: Do Kansas Citians really benefit? And if not, why would our leaders so willingly allow our homes to be sites of extraction?

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