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08/18/16 - Ryan Lochte Is One of Many Privileged First-World Tourists and Brazilians Are Fed Up. He seems to believe in the old imperial axiom that “there is no sin below the equator.”. 08/17/16 - One Community’s Resistance Will Be the Rio Olympics’ Longest-Lasting Legacy. Vila Autódromo may have suffered mass displacement for the Olympic Games, but they have survived and emerged as a symbol that you can fight Rio’s City Hall and win. 08/12/16 - The Other Olympic Village Continues to Resist Displacement.
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Letter From Rio: Save Armando's House From the Olympics
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Letter From Rio: Save Armando's House From the Olympics. His home has also been targeted for demolition by the city government of Rio for the good of the next Summer Olympic games. As his six toddler grandchildren played underfoot, Armando expressed his frustration:. Ldquo;We are fighting for our right to survive here. Our right to live. Do you know how many years I’ve worked my butt off to build this house? Jane Nascimiento, who is a director of the neighborhood’s association, said to me:. If they look ...
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Why Tom Brady Is Worth Defending
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Why Tom Brady Is Worth Defending. EDITOR'S NOTE: George Atallah is the Assistant Executive Director of External Affairs at the NFL Players Association. I spoke with him on the radio show I co-host with Etan Thomas, The Collision. Here is an edited version of our interview, where Atallah says a great deal about the NFL vs. Tom Brady and why this case—over whether Brady ordered footballs to be deflated—matters so much to the union. How big a deal is it that the venue has been changed? I don’t know ho...
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A Year Since The Killing of Michael Brown, a Year of Sports Being Shaped by Struggle
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A Year Since The Killing of Michael Brown, a Year of Sports Being Shaped by Struggle. August 17, 2014: INTERVIEW: Why Pro Wrestler ‘MVP’ Made the Trip to Ferguson. August 18, 2014: The Major Problem With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Powerful Essay on Ferguson. August 22, 2014: The Wrong Question: ‘Where Are the Athletes on Ferguson? August 24, 2014: On the Little League World Series, Jackie Robinson West and Michael Brown. October 14, 2014: #FergusonOctober Comes to Monday Night Football. Let’s Ask Them. Decemb...
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Why Boston Was Compelled to Pull Its 2024 Olympic Bid
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Why Boston Was Compelled to Pull Its 2024 Olympic Bid. Ldquo;What we do matters.” “We are many, they are few.” “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.”. Do not listen to the city’s embarrassing mayor, Marty Walsh, who is trying to pose as if the bid was pulled because he stood up and refused. To sign a document this week. They became “rightly hesitant” just hours after Walsh derided Olympic adversaries by. The “public support necessary to win the bid and deliver a great games.”. This absence of “public...
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Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down. Sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it “rule number one of the jockocracy”: sports and politics just don’t mix. But in. Reveals how our most important debates about class, race, religion, sex, and the raw quest for political power are played out both on and off the field. Brazil's Dance with the Devil. The John Carlos Story. The Sports Moment That Changed the World. By John Carlos and Dave Zirin, Foreword by Cornel West. The Chicago Tribune c...
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The Water in Rio Is Full of Sludge and Rotting Fish—And Olympians Are Supposed to Swim in It
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The Water in Rio Is Full of Sludge and Rotting Fish And Olympians Are Supposed to Swim in It. Ldquo;thick with putrid sludge.” And its Olympic lake, Rodrigo de Freitas, is “littered with rotting fish.”. Ldquo;It’s all the water from the toilets and the showers and whatever people put down their sinks, all mixed up, and it’s going out into the beach waters. Those kinds of things would be shut down immediately if found here.”. Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink. The only...
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Edge of Sports Radio. Welcome to the Edge of Sports Radio with Dave Zirin, where sports and politics collide. Listen online anytime and contact edgeofsports@gmail.com. If you have any questions. Subscribe to Edge of Sports Radio in iTunes. Subscribe to Edge of Sports Radio RSS Feed. We have a fantastic show for you this week. Hear Coach Kevin McNutt and D.C. Dan Baker prepare Dave for his trip to San Antonio with Dr. John Carlos.to speak with Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs! Dave, Mean Mark Barr...
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PROGRESSIVE ECONOMIC PROGRESS 2009. UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS. US BILL OF RIGHTS. PROGRESSIVE ECONOMIC PROGRESS 2009. An Agenda for Progressive Economic Progress 2008-2009. Note: This working paper was developed to assist civil rights organizations and leadership in responding to the Bush/Obama supported Wall Street/bank bailout and the resulting 2008-09 emergency economic plan.]. 8212;—————–. LEGISLATIVE LANGUAGE FOR TREASURY AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE MORTGAGE-RELATED ASSETS. The $700 billion fe...
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