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Ideas and Issues Sports Workers

              New Orleans      Baseball’s billionaire owners seem determined to do their best to kill the sport.  I’m not sure how many people really care anymore, which kind of says it all in my book.  Football has been America’s favorite sport for quite awhile now, and basketball has been making steady progress and, in …

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Fighting Anti-Hijab and Muslim Religious Discrimination

France Organizing Sports

            New Orleans     It’s one thing to try and balance secular claims with religious freedoms, but it’s another to directly discriminate against an entire people for their religion and religious practices.  These are not the normal issues that a grassroots organization of lower income families would choose to tackle.  Organizing 101 would normally nudge …

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