{"id":3870,"date":"2023-05-11T09:51:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/?page_id=3870"},"modified":"2023-06-13T16:40:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T20:40:17","slug":"sport-athletics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/?page_id=3870","title":{"rendered":"Sport &#038; Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Radical education not only develops our thinking, but at its best, it also develops the whole person\u2013body, mind, and spirit. That\u2019s why we\u2019re starting this section on sports and athletics. We will also offer critiques of how sport is often distorted in a capitalist-ruled world<\/em><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZC9wuKrSifg\"><strong>Dave Zirin on \u201cBad Sports:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/236x\/a8\/60\/28\/a86028b5c74bae691fad8331d680b662.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/236x\/a8\/60\/28\/a86028b5c74bae691fad8331d680b662.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZC9wuKrSifg\"><strong>How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love<\/strong>\u201c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interviewed by Juan Gonzales<br>Democracy Now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\">\n<br clear=\"none\"\/><br clear=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/khD-Q_Hcjlc\"><strong>LeBron James is among the NBA<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/khD-Q_Hcjlc\"><strong>players speaking out<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/khD-Q_Hcjlc\">about the death of George Floyd<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3871\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"\/><br clear=\"none\"\/><br clear=\"none\"\/><br clear=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Baseball\u2019s Labor Rebellion<\/strong><br><small>The unsung activists in MLB history<\/small><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unebraskapress-us.imgix.net\/covers\/9781496217776.jpg?auto=format&amp;w=298\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"254\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In their book <em>Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles over Workers\u2019 Rights and American Empire<\/em>, authors Robert Elias and Peter Dreier reveal a little-known yet important history of rebellion among professional ballplayers. These reformers took inspiration from the country\u2019s dissenters and progressive movements, speaking and acting against abuses within and beyond their profession, demanding better working conditions, battling against corporate power and challenging America\u2019s wars, imperialism, and unjust foreign policies, resisting the brash patriotism that many link with the \u201cnational pastime.\u201d They discuss all of it here with Eric Nusbaum, author of<em> Stealing Home<\/em>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ABxJ2DPOpUs\"> 40 minute Video here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radical education not only develops our thinking, but at its best, it also develops the whole person\u2013body, mind, and spirit. That\u2019s why we\u2019re starting this section on sports and athletics. We will also offer critiques of how sport is often distorted in a capitalist-ruled world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3253,"menu_order":-20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3870","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4225,"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3870\/revisions\/4225"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}