<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Yikes, is Dave Zirin here today in person??? If yes, I'm there!!<div> --Jenifer<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 9/28/10, David Green <i><davegreen84@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: David Green <davegreen84@yahoo.com><br>Subject: [Peace] Event this evening (Tuesday)<br>To: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net>, "Peace List" <peace@lists.chambana.net><br>Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 8:36 AM<br><br><div id="yiv709978470"><style type="text/css"><!--#yiv709978470 DIV {margin:0px;}--></style><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><div>
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<div><strong><font size="6">Confronting Racism: From the Sports Arena to the Political Arena</font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font size="4">A Public Forum</font></strong></div>
<div><font size="4">Tuesday, September 28, 5:30 PM</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Greg Hall R. 319 (on Wright Street, northwest corner of the main quad)</font></div>
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<div><font size="4"><font size="2">From the protests against the mis-named "Ground Zero mosque" to Glenn Beck's desecration of Martin Luther King's dream, to the passage of a draconian immigration law, SB 1070 in Arizona, it feels as though racists have been able to dominate the mainstream political debate lately. But their racism is producing something else--resistance. That resistance has</font> </font><font size="2">included counter-protests of thousands against the anti-Muslim bigots from New York City to Gainesville, Florida, and it has fueled a movement for immigrants' rights that stopped the worst aspects of SB 1070 dead in their tracks. That resistance has even reached Major League Baseball, where immigrants rights activists have launched a campaign to get next year's Major League Baseball game moved from Arizona because of that state's anti-immigrant stance. And here at the University of Illinois, protests against Chief Illiniwek, the racist
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have drawn hundreds in the past, and stand to do the same this year. </font></div>
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<div>Join socialists, immigrants' rights and other activists as we discuss the fight against racism, from Assembly Hall to Ground Zero.</div>
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<div><font size="4">Featuring:</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><strong>*</strong></font><font size="6"><strong>Carlos Daniel Rosa</strong>, </font><font size="4">MEcHA and i-Resist Coalition</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><strong>*</strong></font><font size="6"><strong>Damian Reyes </strong><font size="4"><strong>(</strong>panel moderator)</font>, </font><font size="4">International Socialist Organization and i-Resist Coalition</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">AND, special guest:</font></div>
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<div><font size="4"><strong><font size="6">*Dave Zirin</font></strong>, sports columnist. </font><font size="2">Dave is the sports editor for <em><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thenation.com/"><font color="#0066cc">thenation.com</font></a></em>, and a columnist at<em>The Huffington Post</em>. He has been a leading voice promoting a boycott of major league baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks for their owner Ken Kendrick's backing of politicians who support SB 1070, the draconian anti-immigrant law. He is the author of a number of books, including <em>A People's History of Sports in the United States</em>, <em>Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports</em>, and <em>"What's My Name, Fool?": Sports and Resistance in the United States</em>. His latest book is <em>Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love</em>. </font></div>
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<div>Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, La Colectiva, Minority Association of Future Attorneys (MAFA), and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEcHA).</div></div></div></div><br>
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