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Bud Selig’s Dilemma
BY Foster Richards | Arizona | 8/19/10
Major League Baseball’s place in the history of the battle for equality and civil rights is an embarrassment. Black ballplayers were banned from the major leagues for over 75 years until 1947 when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.
Arizona, Boycott Arizona, Bud Selig, Civil Rights, Major League Baseball, MLB, SB1070
Thoughts on jail and deportations from a “Move the Game” protest arrestee
BY Molly Glasgow | Minneapolis, MN | 8/16/10
This was written by one of five people arrested at the Move the Game protest in Minneapolis on August 11, 2010.
Arizona, Boycott Arizona, Boycott Arizona-Minnesota, Bud Selig, civil disobedience, Criminal Alien Program, Major League Baseball, Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, MIRAc, Move the Game, SB1070
Protesters confront baseball bigwigs, 5 arrested
BY Brad Sigal | Minneapolis, MN | 8/12/10
Chanting “Move the game, Move the game!”, 100 immigrants and supporters confronted a meeting of Major League Baseball (MLB) team owners and Commissioner Bud Selig at a ritzy Minneapolis hotel on August 11, 2010.
Arizona, BAM!, Boycott Arizona, Boycott Arizona-Minnesota, Bud Selig, civil disobedience, Major League Baseball, Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, MIRAc, MLB, SB1070
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