Major League Baseball has taken a stand against racism聽and moved its聽All-Star game to protest voter suppression, reports David Zirin.
Dave Zirin
Dave Zirin argues striking players are posing the question that all great strikes pose:聽鈥淲hich side are you on?鈥
It鈥檚 been barely noticed, but last month there was an incursion of politics into sports like no other, writes Dave Zirin.
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With little reason, the Israeli government made the decision to cancel the Palestinian national聽聽(soccer) club championship, otherwise known as the FIFA Palestine Cup.
Supporters' groups across the United States have taken issue with a new rule which bans the anti-fascist Iron Front symbol on banners and flags at games because it is deemed 鈥減olitical鈥.
The highest decision-making body in the world of athletics has rendered a judgment that can only be described as both cruel and unusual, writes Dave Zirin.
At the first preseason NFL games on August 9, players continued to protest racial inequity and police violence by kneeling or raising a fist during the US national anthem, writes Dave Zirin.
The Fare Network (Football Against Racism in Europe) is an organisation that tracks racism and homophobia in the football (soccer) world. For the 2018 World Cup in Russia, they set up a series of 鈥渄iversity houses鈥 for the LGBTQI community and people of colour.
Now in St Petersburg, they have been they were leasing for these safe spaces. Other tenants are also reportedly under instruction not to offer subleases, leaving only the brutal symbolism of a diversity house shuttered.
Radical US sports writer Dave Zirin asks why a major multinational corporation is sponsoring football (soccer) teams in illegal Israeli settlements.
There has been a flurry of articles recently proclaiming that NFL player protests against racism and police brutality were winding down and entering a new stage: what聽 moving 鈥渇rom protest to progress鈥.
Then along came Bob McNair.
United States President Donald Trump has tried to focus the nation鈥檚 ire on anti-racist Black athletes. He tried to demonise them on the highest possible stage, calling for them to lose their jobs.
His transparent aim was to find a bogeyman to distract people from a cascade of scandal and failed legislation, and his administration鈥檚 disastrous response to the suffering in Puerto Rico.
Well, the results of this idiotic effort are in.
A rally聽gathered in front of the NFL鈥檚 Park Avenue Headquarters in New York on August 23. A聽host of聽聽protested the exile-status聽of free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick 鈥 the star quarterback formerly of the San Francisco 49ers who caused waves by taking to his knee during the US national anthem as an anti-racist protest.
Donald Trump鈥檚 immigration policies 鈥 and the marching orders he has given to Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) 鈥 are destroying lives. When this hits home, it gets very real, very quickly.
It is a reality that recently smacked the members of the elite Bethesda Soccer Club right between the eyes: Their teammate and friend Lizandro Claros Saravia was detained by ICE, along with his older brother Diego. Both were then deported.
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