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"Global Games: Sports, Politics and Society is a first, bringing together a stellar array of former athletes, activists and academics who have independently conceived of sport as being a major force for human rights and social justice. Because of EPIIC's inspiration and vision these individuals will meet, share, discuss and debate their ideas with their eyes turned toward specific courses of action. As a former professional football player, who is deeply concerned about reaffirming sport's main stance in the world, which is, a profound respect for humanity and life itself, this conference is auspicious, and I am honored to be a part of it." -David Meggyesy, Western Director, NFL Players Association; Former President, Athletes United for Peace; Author, Out of Their League; Former All-Pro Linebacker, St. Louis Cardinals On Sunday, Feb. 13, 2000, select participants from the 2000 EPIIC Symposium, "Global Games: Sports, Politics and Society," gathered together for a professional workshop entitled, Athletes for Social Responsibility.* The workshop provided an opportunity for practitioners, academics and students to gather and engage in dialogue about their shared concern for human rights, their commitment to using sports as a vehicle for achieving social justice, and their thoughts on the social responsibility of athletes. The modest aim of the workshop was to bring a group of dedicated individuals together in an informal venue to share both their common interests in human rights and their unique professional experiences. In the course of planning Global Games it became apparent to those of us on the Symposium Program Committee that a number of worldwide programs existed which shared similar goals relating to sports and human rights, yet the organizations did not know of each other's activities. The Sunday workshop provided an opportunity for individuals from these different groups to educate and inform one another. Representatives from such organizations as Athletes United for Peace, the Center for the Study of Sport in Society, the Giving Back Fund, OATH (Olympic Advocates Together Honorably), Olympic Aid, and TEAM (The Exceptional Athlete Matters), among others, were present at the workshop. (For a complete list of organizations and links, see below.) The goal of the Program Committee in organizing the professional workshop was to provide a venue for sharing and dialogue on what we believed to be a timely and critical issue. At the same time, we also hoped that from the session we could form an affiliated network of individuals and organizations committed to a common cause, albeit from their disparate perspectives, Athletes for Social Responsibility. The participants at the workshop reached a consensus that the most productive way to stay in touch and informed, and to continue sharing valuable information was through a website dedicated to the cause of sports and social responsibility. We were not interested in creating a new bureaucracy, but rather in reinforcing the richness of the existing civil society organized around this issue. That is what we hope this website will achieve.
--Jessica B. Berns [If you have suggestions for other sites that should be linked, or articles/events to be posted here, send it to Heather Barry] Participants:
Peter Alegi
Ketra Armstrong
Jessica Berns
Dennis Brutus
Doug Cahn
Annmarie Cholankeril
Robert Duval
Scott Glaberman
Mayuri Guntupalli
Sengil Inkiala
Jay Kahn
Bruce Kidd
Chuck Korr
Jose Masso
Dave Meggyesy
Hadley Morash
Ann Peel
Marc Pollick
Mike Savicki
Jim Silk
ShermanTeichman
Mark Tewksbury
Jay Weiner Related Information: Johann Olav Koss: the achievements of one of the greatest Winter Olympics athletes of all time have since been eclipsed by his efforts on behalf on Olympic Aid, a humanitarian organization established to provide relief to children in war torn countries...
"Johann Olav Koss: Olympic-Sized Heart"
"Building Toward a Political Sports Movement"
"'Doing God's Work' for the Kids of Haiti"
"Soccer: Social Laboratory on a Field; In Haiti, an Activist Offers Hope and a Soccer Ball"
"Palestine Sports Project:"
"Mathare Youth Sports Association -- Giving Kids a Sporting Chance"
"Kenya's Shanty Kids Go Online"
"Promoting Human Rights in the Olympic Movement: The Cases of South Africa, Moscow and Beijing"
A Day of Celebration, Tufts University Links to other Organizations: Adopt-A-Minefield: http://www.landmines.org Athletes Reaching Out Foundation: http:/www.arofoundation.org/aro/about.html Athletes United for Peace: http://www.athletesunitedforpeace.org Business for Social Responsibility: http://www.bsr.org Center for the Study of Sport in Society: http://www.sportinsociety.org Fair Labor Association: http://www.fairlabor.org The Giving Back Fund: http://www.givingback.org Harvard Trade Union Program: http://www.harvard.edu/htup/ International Institute for Sport: http://www.internationalsport.com IOC - Commissions and Olympic Movement Efforts: http://www.olympic.org/ioc/e/org/movement_intro_e.html Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) - Shoot Back Program: http://www.piac.org/childseye/shootb.htm OATH (Olympic Advocates Together Honorably): http://www.theoath.org Reebok Human Rights: http://www.reebok.com/about_reebok/human_rights/default.asp Women's Sports Foundation: http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org World T.E.A.M. Sports: http://www.worldteamsports.org
* In the past, EPIIC professional workshops have served as the genesis for projects such as ArmsWatch, now part of Human Rights Watch, a group that monitors small arms production and arms sales around the world, and Women In Black, an Israeli group that protested the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
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