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ByAssociated Press
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SAO PAULO (AP) — Some 4,000 protesters in Brazil's biggest city marched peacefully Wednesday night on the stadium that will host the World Cup's opening match next week, calling on the government to provide more low-income housing.
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In the latest protest by Brazilians ahead of soccer's premier event, the demonstrators made their way down a main thoroughfare in eastern Sao Paulo holding aloft banners and blocking traffic.
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9 r( [2 k8 [! r% E: U: E0 O' `8 ^' }2 IThe Homeless Workers Movement organized the march, which like three similar protests spearheaded by the group was carried out in a peaceful manner.
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A member of the Homeless Workers Movement take part in a protest demanding better public services and against the money spent on the World Cup preparations in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)
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$ p1 B6 \; C# F' h$ z0 ]; P. e# bLast year, anti-government protests fueled in part by anger over the billions spent to host the World Cup took over streets in cities across Brazil during the Confederations Cup, a soccer tournament that is a warm-up event for the World Cup. Several protests saw violent clashes between police and demonstrators.
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Members of the Homeless Workers Movement holding a banner that reads in Portuguese "World Cup without the People, then I am in the street again", march during a protest demanding better public services and against the money spent on the World Cup preparations in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)5.39.217.761 t; E/ t1 l- C, Z
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Members of the Homeless Workers Movement march in front of Arena Corinthians stadium during a protest demanding better public services and against the money spent on the World Cup preparations in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)3 j# J5 ~. J3 o1 N; e1 A) Z; h
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