Athletes as Social Activists: Pushing the Boundaries of the Sports World

Athletes as Social Activists: Pushing the Boundaries of the Sports World

Location:	New York, United States
Lecture Date:	2007-06-22 (Archive)
Date Submitted:	2007-06-17
Announcement ID:	157101

The Murphy Institute for Labor, Community, and Policy Studies

invites you to an
Evening Labor Forum

Athletes as Social Activists:
Pushing the Boundaries of the Sports World

Featuring:

Dave Zirin
author of Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports and What's My Name Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States

Toni Smith
Protested the war in Iraq as Co-Captain of the women’s basketball team at Manhattanville College in 2003

Peter Kaufman , Moderator
Professor of Sociology, SUNY-New Paltz
Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Sport in Society

Friday evening, June 22nd
6:00 to 8:00 PM
The Murphy Institute for Labor, Community, and Policy Studies, CUNY
25 West 43rd Street, 18 th floor
New York, New York

Event held in collaboration with
The Center for the Study of Sport in Society, Northeastern University

A book signing and reception will follow the event RSVP to Eloiza Morales at (212) 642-2029

Eloiza at 212-642-2029
Email: jeannette.gabriel@mail.cuny.edu

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