Changing the Game

Changing the Game

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 239 , Segment 2

Episode: Angry America, Changing the Game, Emily Dickinson Lexicon

  • Feb 24, 2016 10:00 pm
  • 13:21 mins

Guest: John O’Sullivan, Founder and CEO of Changing the Game Project  Youth sports are huge in America – find me a family that doesn’t have at least one game or practice to attend on a Saturday and I’ll be impressed. Some 40 million kids play youth sports. But the vast majority of them drop out of the game before they reach high school.  A lot of those kids aren’t getting cut from the team.  They’re just deciding they don’t want to play anymore. And John O’Sullivan says the reason can be found on the sidelines, rather than on the field.

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Human Rights Activism in China

24 MINS

Guest: Nanfu Wang, Independent Filmmaker   To what lengths would you go to reveal injustice? Would you speak up despite disapproval from your neighbors? Use hidden cameras to document it? Would you be willing to face interrogation by national security agents? Filmmaker Nanfu Wang claims she witnessed all the above while filming “Hooligan Sparrow”, a human rights documentary which recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It was filmed in 2013, when Wang returned to her native China to document a protest led by an activist who calls herself “Hooligan Sparrow.” It wasn’t long before Wang became a character in her own film, capturing on camera the lengths to which the Chinese government was willing to go to keep her from telling those human rights activists.

Guest: Nanfu Wang, Independent Filmmaker   To what lengths would you go to reveal injustice? Would you speak up despite disapproval from your neighbors? Use hidden cameras to document it? Would you be willing to face interrogation by national security agents? Filmmaker Nanfu Wang claims she witnessed all the above while filming “Hooligan Sparrow”, a human rights documentary which recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It was filmed in 2013, when Wang returned to her native China to document a protest led by an activist who calls herself “Hooligan Sparrow.” It wasn’t long before Wang became a character in her own film, capturing on camera the lengths to which the Chinese government was willing to go to keep her from telling those human rights activists.