00:00The 2026 World Cup in the U.S. faces significant protests and calls for boycotts due to strict
00:05immigration crackdowns, racial profiling concerns, and threats to civil liberties under the Trump
00:09administration. With more information, journalist Mitch Gaines from the United States.
00:16With less than 75 days until the first scheduled match here at Gillette Stadium,
00:20protesters in Boston are calling on FIFA to move the World Cup out of the United States
00:24over international human rights violations, telling Telesor that the United States has
00:27committed war crimes in Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran.
00:31We don't want the blood money here. There is no reason for... I love soccer. Listen,
00:36I coach soccer on Sundays. I love soccer, but I do not want blood money here in the United States.
00:41It's a celebration of nations getting together and unity and peace and justice,
00:46and none of those things are present here right now.
00:49You cannot be that hostile around the world than after that host a world event.
00:56And supporting Peace Prize for Trump, that's the funniest thing. I'm sorry.
01:02Funny, sad, not funny, funny, you know?
01:04FIFA, the World Sporting Organization, invented a FIFA Peace Prize just three months ago after Trump
01:10expressed his disappointment in not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in Gaza.
01:14FIFA President Gianni Infantino faces an Internal Ethics Commission complaint for his role in the
01:19decision to introduce the FIFA Peace Prize and for his effusive praise of President Trump on at least
01:23four prior occasions. FIFA's Code of Ethics requires football officials to remain politically neutral.
01:29We say the beautiful game should not be solid and should be a right for the children of Gaza,
01:36should be a right for the children of Lebanon, and for all children throughout the world.
01:39Thank you very much.
01:40I do not have a problem with somebody trying to enjoy themselves or to have peace with themselves.
01:45I can't. I'm from Gaza. My city is destroyed. My family is being killed.
01:51Please don't forget me and my family. Don't forget the people in Iran, in Venezuela, in Cuba,
01:56where a whole hospital lost a whole bunch of people because we blocked the fuel of the hospital.
02:03After bitter tensions with local officials in Massachusetts over funding local security needs,
02:07a deal was reached for the Kraft Group, owner of Foxborough's Gillette Stadium,
02:10to provide $7.8 million in backing for event security. Kraft Group billionaire owner Robert
02:15Kraft is widely seen as an ally of Trump.
02:17Free, free Palestine, free, free Palestine.
02:21It was created for the main reason of friendly competition to bring people together,
02:28and we need to bring that prospect and idea back to those sports. We have to take politics out.
02:36We have to take the money out.
02:38From Boston City Hall, Mitch Gaines, Telesaur.
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