f{"id":25132,"date":"2023-02-13T21:21:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T05:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=25132"},"modified":"2023-02-13T21:31:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T05:31:33","slug":"behind-the-shield-responding-to-adversity-quarters-1-4-2022-season-click-on-link-to-watch-on-youtube-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/13\/behind-the-shield-responding-to-adversity-quarters-1-4-2022-season-click-on-link-to-watch-on-youtube-com\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Behind The Shield:  The Power and Politics of the NFL&#8221; by Dave Zirin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Behind the Shield: The Power &amp;amp; Politics of the NFL [Trailer]\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/753848213?h=c8505ba451&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;<em>Behind the Shield<\/em>, celebrated author and&nbsp;<em>Nation<\/em>&nbsp;magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politics before Colin Kaepernick and other Black NFL players took a knee. Digging deep into the history of the league, and navigating a stunning excavation of decades of archival footage and news media, Zirin traces how the NFL, under the guise of \u201csticking to sports,\u201d has promoted wars, militarism, and nationalism; glorified reactionary ideas about manhood and gender roles; normalized systemic racism, corporate greed, and crony capitalism; and helped vilify challenges to the dominant order as \u201cunpatriotic\u201d and inappropriately \u201cpolitical.\u201d The result is a case study not only in the power of big-time sports to disseminate stealth propaganda and reinforce an increasingly authoritarian status quo, but also the power of activist athletes to challenge this unjust status quo and model a different, more democratic vision of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaed.org\/host-a-screening\"><em><strong>Sign up to host a virtual or in-person screening<\/strong><\/em><\/a>Duration: 94 min<br>ISBN: 978-1-893521-14-8<br>Date Produced: 2022<br>Subtitles: English<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaed.org\/transcripts\/Behind-the-Shield-Transcript.pdf\">Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About Dave Zirin<\/strong><br>Named one of&nbsp;<em>UTNE Reader\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;\u201c50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,\u201d Dave Zirin is the sports editor at&nbsp;<em>The Nation<\/em>&nbsp;magazine, their first sports editor in over 150 years of existence. He has been called \u201cthe best sportswriter in the United States,\u201d by the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;icon Robert Lipsyte. He has written eleven books on the politics of sports, including the acclaimed biography&nbsp;<em>Jim Brown: Last Man Standing<\/em>. He is also the co-author of the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;bestseller,&nbsp;<em>Things That Make White People Uncomfortable<\/em>&nbsp;with former NFL player Michael Bennett. Zirin has brought his blend of sports and politics to multiple networks and television programs including ESPN\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Outside the Lines<\/em>, MSNBC\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Morning Joe<\/em>, CNN, and&nbsp;<em>Democracy Now!<\/em>&nbsp;with Amy Goodman. He has also been on numerous national radio programs from sports radio to National Public Radio\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Tell Me More<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;Talk of the Nation<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>All Things Considered<\/em>. Zirin has also been an advisor to filmmakers ranging from Ken Burns to Ang Lee and has appeared in a number of documentaries. He also produced a segment on the forthcoming Showtime documentary about Dr. Harry Edwards. His writing has appeared in the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>New York Daily News<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>New York Newsday<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>Baltimore Sun<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>Pittsburgh Courier<\/em>, and many other publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Produced by the Media Education Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Featuring Dave Zirin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Director &amp; Editor: Jeremy Earp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Producers: Loretta Alper &amp; Jeremy Earp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Co-Producer: Dave Zirin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Written by: Dave Zirin &amp; Jeremy Earp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Archival Producer: Loretta Alper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Motion Graphics: Roger Stahl, Jeremy Earp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Executive Producer: Sut Jhally<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Associate Producer: Jason Young<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Director of Photography: Daniel Marracino<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additional Camera: Jason Mason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In&nbsp;Behind the Shield, celebrated author and&nbsp;Nation&nbsp;magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politics before Colin Kaepernick and other Black NFL players took a knee. Digging deep into the history of the league, and navigating a stunning excavation of decades of archival footage&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/13\/behind-the-shield-responding-to-adversity-quarters-1-4-2022-season-click-on-link-to-watch-on-youtube-com\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,82,84],"class_list":["post-25132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-behind-the-shield","tag-dave-zirin","tag-the-power-and-politics-of-the-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}