[Peace] Event this evening (Tuesday)

[David Green]

Confronting Racism: From the Sports Arena to the Political Arena
A Public Forum
Tuesday, September 28, 5:30 PM
Greg Hall R. 319 (on Wright Street, northwest corner of the main quad)
 
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 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 mascot, 
have drawn hundreds in the past, and stand to do the same this year. 


Join socialists, immigrants' rights and other activists as we discuss the fight 
against racism, from Assembly Hall to Ground Zero.
 
Featuring:
*Carlos Daniel Rosa, MEcHA and i-Resist Coalition
*Damian Reyes (panel moderator), International Socialist Organization and 
i-Resist Coalition
 
AND, special guest:
 
*Dave Zirin, sports columnist. Dave is the sports editor for thenation.com, and 
a columnist atThe Huffington Post. 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 A People's 
History of Sports in the United States, Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, 
Politics, and Promise of Sports, and "What's My Name, Fool?": Sports and 
Resistance in the United States. His latest book is Bad Sports: How Owners Are 
Ruining the Games We Love. 


Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, La Colectiva, Minority 
Association of Future Attorneys (MAFA), and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de 
Aztlan (MEcHA).


      
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