[Peace] Event this evening (Tuesday)

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Yikes, is Dave Zirin here today in person??? If yes, I'm there!! --Jenifer

--- On Tue, 9/28/10, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Peace] Event this evening (Tuesday)
To: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>, "Peace List" <peace at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 8:36 AM



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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