How the People’s Cup in Atlanta Defied a Damaging Lineage – Scalawag
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Joel Sronce interviews Katie Giede, a Waffle House worker, People’s Cup attendee, and member of an unlikely but vital force in this new coalition of resistance: the Union of Southern Service Workers.

As the eyes of the sports world return to Atlanta this summer, conditions are once again ripe for the event to fuel more ​​displacement, repression, and profiteering. Once again, the powerful will fight to use sports as a vehicle for the worst compulsions of late-stage capitalism – albeit fully necessary and wholly inevitable as strategy for urban development.

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