Police in Brazil’s capital fired tear gas to try to contain more than a thousand anti-World Cup protesters who tried to march on Mane Garrincha National Stadium, snarling traffic where soccer fans had been gathering to try and see the tournament’s trophy.  Officials had to close that display because of the protest.

Indigenous protesters with bows and arrows as well as spears joined with members of the Homeless Workers Movement to block people from seeing the trophy in Brasilia. 

They’re upset about the cost of staging the tournament, and the negative effect the new stadiums are having on low-income Brazilians.  It’s not just education and health care suffering so that public money could be spent on new stadiums.  Real estate values near the stadiums are soaring, forcing many working families out of their homes. 

President Dilma Rousseff has promised public housing for those people, but also says she’ll order military police to end the protests if necessary.

But the protests are spreading as the 12 June start of the World Cup approaches.  In Sao Paulo, professors blocked a main avenue to demand a raise.  In Rio de Janeiro, municipal bus drivers announced a 24-hour strike when Wednesday rolls around the globe to the country’s number one tourist city.