Dave Zirin: What Is the Future for the Salad Revolution?

Dave Zirin: What Is the Future for the Salad Revolution?

Dave Zirin: What Is the Future for the Salad Revolution?

With authorities backing away from their proposed transportation hike, what is next for the protests in Brazil?

Copy Link
Facebook
X (Twitter)
Bluesky
Pocket
Email

Brazil has invested significant public funds, as well as displaced thousands, in preperation for the 2014 World and 2016 Olympic Games. But with authorities backing away from their proposed transportation hike, what is the future of the salad revolution? T he Nation’s Dave Zirin joins Comcast Sportsnet to debate the dissonance between Brazil’s PR campaign and what is happening on the street.

—Jake Scobey-Thal

Your support makes stories like this possible

From Minneapolis to Venezuela, from Gaza to Washington, DC, this is a time of staggering chaos, cruelty, and violence. 

Unlike other publications that parrot the views of authoritarians, billionaires, and corporations, The Nation publishes stories that hold the powerful to account and center the communities too often denied a voice in the national media—stories like the one you’ve just read.

Each day, our journalism cuts through lies and distortions, contextualizes the developments reshaping politics around the globe, and advances progressive ideas that oxygenate our movements and instigate change in the halls of power. 

This independent journalism is only possible with the support of our readers. If you want to see more urgent coverage like this, please donate to The Nation today.

Ad Policy
x