Student Athletes vs. Nike Sweatshops: Isabelle Teare of Georgetown Sailing

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🗓️ 22 April 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This week, a show for all the student-athletes, student-activists, and the advocates like us who cheer them on. Isabelle Teare is a member of the Georgetown University Sailing Team. She’s also a leader in ‘Athletes and Advocates for Workers,’ a movement that’s pressured Georgetown’s administration and athletic department to confront Nike sweatshop abuses. Despite the school's long and entwined relationship with Nike, Teare and her cohort are winning. Then, comedian W. Kamau Bell has a new CNN program, ‘United Shades of America,’ debuting Sunday at 10 Eastern. We will find out why he is interviewing Klansmen on deserted country roads and what the mission is of this altogether original show. Then, a column read about Steph Curry's small- but significant- stand against anti-LGBT legislation in North Carolina. Finally, our ‘Just Stand Up’ award comes in defense of Cardale Jones, a man who deserves nothing but a larger platform for his critical views of big time college football. We thank our intern Dustin Foote for all his dedicated work over the last few months. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Prince Rogers Nelson. We will have a full tribute to Prince on next week’s show.Workers Rights Consortium: http://workersrights.org/The Hoya: http://thehoya.com/president-degioia-addresses-nike-labor-disputes/Georgetown Voice: http://georgetownvoice.com/2016/02/29/81060/W. Kamau Bell's United Shades of America: http://cnn.com/UnitedShades‎/Zirin column: Steph Curry on North Carolina’s HB 2: ‘No One Should be Discriminated Against’ http://thenation.com/article/steph-curry-on-north-carolinas-hb-2-no-one-should-be-discriminated-against/http://edgeofsportspodcast.com | http://twitter.com/edgeofsports | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: [email protected] by Alexander Lewis http://soundcloud.com/alexanderjlewis on Elysian Records http://soundcloud.com/elysianrecordsSkit & Sahilhttp://soundcloud.com/skithttp://soundcloud.com/iamsahilmusic Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. On this show, we've talked to people like
0:07.7	John Legend, Martina Novratilova, Karim, Nome Chomsky, and that's been an absolute blast. But I've
0:14.5	also wanted to gear this show towards speaking to grassroots activists who are fighting at that
0:19.6	intersection of sports and social justice.
0:22.3	And this week, we got somebody really special.
0:24.9	Her name is Isabel Tier, athlete at Georgetown, and she has been part of a movement that has
0:29.9	been challenging the school's deep and long-term and highly lucrative financial relationship
0:36.8	with Nike.
0:38.2	And guess what?
0:39.6	She's winning.
0:40.6	It was pretty scary.
0:41.8	As a student athlete, you know, am I going to get kicked off the team?
0:44.3	Am I even allowed to be doing this?
0:45.8	There were certain coaches that sat down their whole teams and said,
0:49.1	you are not allowed to get involved in this movement.
0:59.3	I'm going to be able to. to get involved in this movement. The relationship between Georgetown and Nike is a shifting situation, and we have
1:03.8	breaking news about a serious victory that Isabel Tier has been a part of that we're going to
1:09.0	reveal on this week's show.
1:10.6	I don't even have words.
1:12.2	When I found out about this, I've been working with a professor,
1:15.8	and when he called me in to talk to me about this, we just hugged each other,
1:19.2	and I thought we were both going to start crying.
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