10 Days To Shake The Super Bowl

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

Sports, History, News, Politics, Sports News

4.8 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week we talk to Hani Ali from the Black Visions Collective and Veronica Mendez-Moore from the Centro De Trabajadores Unidos En Lucha, both in the Twin Cities, about organizing a ten day resistance to ramped up police presence, the attacks on workers, and the corporate bacchanalia leading up to the Super Bowl Sunday. Also, we speak about the shockingly overlooked news that Serena Williams - one of the great all-time athletes - almost died during childbirth. We also have “Just Stand Up” and Just Sit Down awards that are connected to each other, as well as some very special shootouts to our patrons! All that and more on this week’s show! Hani Alihttp://www.takeactionminnesota.org/profile/hani-ali/Veronica Mendez-Moorehttp://stproject.org/lio_directory/veronica-mendez-moore/Zirin, Jaylen Brown and the Evolution of the Activist Athlete https://www.thenation.com/article/jaylen-brown-and-the-evolution-of-the-activist-athlete/—http://www.edgeofsportspodcast.com/ | http://twitter.com/EdgeOfSportsPod | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: edgeofsports@gmail.com | Edge of Sports hotline: 401-426-3343 (EDGE)—Music: Eye Examination - Del The Funky Homosapien | The Shit That We've Been Through - Atmosphere | Finesse - Bruno Mars Feat. Cardi B. | Blind Man Can See It - James Brown | Wipe Me Down - Lil Boosie Feat. Webbie & Foxx | Drop It Like It’s Hot Remix - Snoop Dogg Feat. Pharrell & Jay-Z | Can’t Believe It - T-Pain Feat. Lil Wayne | Memory Lane - Nas | The Wire Theme Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	I want to be clear, like, all of the protests that we're doing and the disruption that I think will happen over those whole 10 days, like this is not about us being anti-football.
0:09.8	The Vikings are actually looking pretty good to go to the Super Bowl, and that might happen, which would be kind of amazing.
0:16.1	But, you know, this is not about being anti-football.
0:18.1	This is about being anti-corporate party that's really extracting from our communities
0:21.5	and creating an environment of militarization and just increasing the wealth at the top
0:27.8	at the expense of folks on the bottom.
0:29.8	So I just want to be really clear about that.
0:31.4	Like, not anti-football, anti-the-corporatization of all of this.
0:35.6	No, no, tomorrow I departing. anti-the-corportization of all of this.
0:46.9	Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast.
0:47.9	I'm Dave Ziron.
0:53.6	This week, we speak to Hani Ali from the Black Visions Collective and Veronica Mendez Moore,
0:55.3	from the C-TUL, the worker center of the Twin Cities.
0:58.6	They're going to talk about the Super Bowl coming to town, police repression, 10 days of activism,
1:05.2	10 days of resistance, 10 days that could shake the football world.
1:10.0	Also, I've got some choice words about the evolution of the activist athlete
1:14.3	in the form of Boston Celtic second year player Jalen Brown.
1:18.4	I've got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Your Ass Down Awards this week
1:22.1	with some very surprising subjects.
1:25.0	And instead of Kaepernick Watch, I want to bring people's attention this week to a sports
1:29.9	story that I frankly cannot believe isn't the biggest story, not just in sports, but in the
1:35.6	country.
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