[antiwar-van] Reminder Jan 20-21: Dave Zirin in Vancouver!

[Harsha W.]

"POLITICS IN THE RING: DAVE ZIRIN IN VANCOUVER!"

Award-winning sports writer Dave Zirin will be speaking in Vancouver on
the politics of sport and mega sporting events on January 20 and January
21, 2010. You will not want to miss him!

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Wed Jan 20 @ 2:30-4:30
MBC 2290, SFU Burnaby campus
Organized by Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU), email organizer at tssu.ca

Wed Jan 20 @ 6:30 pm. Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph Street (corner
Victoria Drive).
Suggested donation $10, no one turned away.
* Dave will be available for a book signing, People’s Co-op Books will
have his books for purchase.

Organized by Olympic Resistance Network, olympicresistance at riseup.net
Endorsed by: Vancouver Action, Submedia, No One Is Illegal, Anti Poverty
Committee, Council of Canadians, Warrior Publications, Stopwar.ca, Impact
on Communities Coalition, Streams of Justice, Student Christian Movement -
UBC, 2010 Watch, 2010 Corporate Campaign.

Thursday, Jan. 21, 4pm
UBC - Student Union Building, room 205
Organized by UBC Social Justice Centre.

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Named one of the UTNE Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our
World", Dave Zirin writes about the politics of sports and resistance in
sports. His writings appear in the Nation Magazine, SLAM Magazine, the
Progressive, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Daily
News, and Los Angeles Times. Zirin is also the host of XM satellite's
popular weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio. He has brought his blend of
sports and politics to other television and radio programs including ESPN,
CNN, MSNBC, Al-Jazeera, C-SPAN, Democracy Now, National Public Radio, Air
America, and Pacifica. Author of several books, his new book is "A
People's History of Sports in the United States," part of Howard Zinn's
People's History series for the New Press.

* Some recent articles:

Amy Goodman and Canada's Olympic Paranoia
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-zirin/amy-goodman-and-canadas-o_b_372273.html

Message to Obama: You Can't Have Muhammad Ali
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/23295

Tiger Woods Falls from Grace
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091221/zirin

Obama's Olympic error:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/2/sportswriter_dave_zirin_on_obamas_olympic

Caster Semenya: The Idiocy of Sex Testing
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090831/zirin_wolf

Gaza anger overwhelms hoops contest
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/2428

* More about Dave and his writings: http://www.edgeofsports.com/