World Cup Protests Spark Violence in Brazil

SHOTLIST: SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, JANUARY 25, 2014, SOURCE: AFPTV - VAR protesters in front of Sao Paulo museum of art - VAR protesters in Paulista street - VAR fire and broken glass after violence SOUNDBITE 1 Vito Araujo (man), protester (Portuguese, 10 sec): "My message is that Brazil is in terrible shape and you, foreigners, need to know that. And for the World Cup we do have stadiums, but we don't have airports, we don't have security or hospitals, we don't have anything." SOUNDBITE 2 Tonito José Da Silva (man), protester (Portuguese, 5 sec): "This is only the beginning. I think there will be many more (protests)." SOUNDBITE 3 Diamara Silva (woman), protester (Portuguese, 9 sec): "The end of the World Cup, we want the end of the World Cup. We don't have the infrastructures for it, but we want education and health instead." /// ------------------------------------------------------- AFP TEXT STORY: World Cup protests spark violence in Brazil / Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - 26 January 2014 10:57 - AFP (Moises AVILA) - LEAD UPDATES number of arrests, number of protesters in Sao Paulo / USD - UNR - CLJ - SOI - HUM - 427 Words / Brazil unrest social Fbl WC 2014 / PICTURE / PAW-GL , AFW-GL , MEW-GL , EUW-GL , MAX-GL , ANA-GL 26 January 2014 Demonstrators and police clashed in Sao Paulo on Saturday during the first in a planned series of anti-World Cup protests across Brazil called by radical activist group Anonymous. With less than five months before the June 12 kick-off -- when the five-time champions and hosts take on Croatia -- Brazil is facing the same kind of social rumblings that marred last year's Confederations Cup dress rehearsal. Anonymous called for protests against football's fabled event via its Facebook page under the slogan "The Cup will not take place." Other activists said "FIFA go home" on Twitter, referring to football's world governing body, which was likely watching the weekend's events with some concern. Brazilians are avid users of social media, a favored tool to organize protests. But turnout was modest. In the country's sprawling industrial and financial hub of Sao Paulo, about...