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Salon Event: Making Its Mark – South Africa and the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Salon Event: Making Its Mark – South Africa and the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Busboys & Poets - 14th & V 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC

In June, the first coin of the 2010 FIFA World Cup will be tossed in host country, South Africa. Amidst the entire African continents' excitement over its hosting debut, South Africa will once again make its mark as the midfielder of the seamless intersection of soccer fever and government and corporate accountability. Join labor, gender, peace and justice activists and true fans of the sport to make South Africa's mark count. Midfielders, strikers, forwards and defenders: Let the games begin!  

Film: Not Just A Game; Power Politics and American Sports

Film: Not Just A Game; Power Politics and American Sports

Busboys & Poets - 14th & V 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC

Not Just A Game, the powerful new documentary based on Zirin’s bestselling book The People’s History of Sports, argues that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long need at the center of some of major political debates and struggles of our time. The result is as deeply moving as it is exhilarating: nothing less than an alternative history of political struggle in the United States as seen through the games its people have played.

Film: Not Just A Game; Power Politics and American Sports

IPS Conference Room 1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC, United States

Not Just A Game; People, Politics, and American Sports, the powerful new documentary based on Dave Zirin’s bestselling book A People’s History of Sports, argues that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long need at the center of some of major political debates and struggles of our time. The result is as deeply moving as it is exhilarating: nothing less than an alternative history of political struggle in the United States as seen through the games its people have played.

Film: In Football We Trust (snow date, Jan 31)

Busboys & Poets - 14th & V 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC

An IPS and Indie Lens Pop-Up (formerly Community Cinema) preview screening that intimately portrays four young Polynesian football players struggling to overcome gang violence, family pressures and near poverty as they enter the high stakes world of college recruiting and the promise of professional sports.