ESPN – Cheek wants to meet with Chinese officials after having visa revoked – Olympics
So speedskater Joey Cheek, a co-founder of Team Darfur (a collection of athletes who promote Darfur awareness and seek to end the crisis there), just got his visa to go to China revoked. He was supposed to travel to Beijing tomorrow [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Darfur’
More on Team Darfur
Posted in Globalization, Links, Sports, tagged Darfur, Olympics on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some links
Posted in Links, tagged China, Darfur, human rights, Links on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A great article from the Washington Post by gold medalist speedskater Joey Cheek regarding action on Darfur.
Lately the news coming out regarding the U.S. executive branch’s abuse of War on Terror prisoners has been pretty stomach-turning. The Guardian is now reporting that the U.S. may be holding terror suspects on Prison Ships. Yuck (I can’t [...]
Revisiting politics and the Olympics
Posted in Links, tagged Darfur, human rights, Links, Tibet on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Olympic medalist John Carlos, perhaps best-known for his (along with Tommie Smith’s) raised, gloved fist on the podium protesting racial inequality, has some insight about politics and the Olympics, and the controversy over the Beijing Olympics and human rights.
Some links
Posted in Links, tagged China, Darfur, Tibet, U2 on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A reasonably-balanced article by NY Times’ Nick Kristof takes a look at some of the political complications of the Tibet issue and the role of the U.S.
If yesterday’s events were any indication (and the events of previous days), the Olympic torch route will be pretty crazy.
A link from Human Rights Watch on the jailing of [...]
