The People’s Game – Back for Brazil 2014!
June 8, 2014
The People’s Game is BACK! And ready to bring you coverage of this year’s World Cup tournament in Brazil, both on and off the field. We will report on the games themselves and also focus on the socio-political significance of the world’s most popular sporting event – including the widespread demonstrations expected to transpire during…
Jennifer Doyle blogs from Germany on Women’s World Cup
July 14, 2011The People’s Game co-host Jennifer Doyle is producing some of the most insightful analysis of this years Women’s World Cup final on her great blog From a Left Wing. Listen to Jennifer’s interview with Sonali Kolhatkar about the early rounds of the World Cup finals in Germany – as well as an overarching dialogue about…
The People’s Game Radio Show – 07/12/10
July 13, 2010Listen to The People’s Game Radio show for Monday July 12, 2010 Our final installment, featuring globetrotting birthday girl Jennifer Doyle, Pablo Miralles, Alan Minsky; as well as guests Franklin Foer and Gabriel Kuhn; and a dialogue about the documentary Kicking It. We sum up Mundial 2010, what it all meant, and where the world…
Franklin Foer Interview – The People’s Game Radio
July 12, 2010Listen to The People’s Game Radio Interview with Franklin Foer Franklin Foer, the editor of the New Republic Magazine and author of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, joins The People’s Game to talk about the 2010 World Cup and what we can learn about the world and humanity from this…
The People’s Game Radio Show – 07/11/10
July 12, 2010Gabriel Kuhn Interview – The People’s Game Radio
July 12, 2010Listen to The People’s Game Radio Interview with Gabriel Kuhn Gabriel Kuhn, the author of Soccer vs. The State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics, joins The People’s Game to discuss his book, his career as a semi-pro footballer in Austria, and how the the left can engage global football culture in 2010. http://www.thepeoplesgame.org/Kuhn.mp3Podcast: Play in…
Simon Kuper Interview – The People’s Game Radio
July 10, 2010The People’s Game Radio Show – 07/10/10
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July 10, 2010Call for 2014 Global General Strike during World Cup
July 10, 2010We, at The People’s Game, have received this communiqué from a shadowy organization calling itself the 2014 Global General Strike. We’ve done some research and it seems they have offices in Detroit, Michigan; Porto Alegre, Brazil; Manchester, England; Barcelona, Catalonia; and the Esalen Institute. Here’s the text we received: We call upon all people of…