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AG2018-MNP_1080304c or struggle-progress

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Frederick Douglass; Northwest corner of Central Park. Speech! Jacobin, summer 2015.

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

Fanaticism in football

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It is diasporic, regional and totally irrational. The games are watched to satisfy, though inadequately, wants in areas connected to global standings. For some fans, athleticism and youthful grace are conflated with the performance of states and nations, in the hope for better resolution for long unsettled issues. Chance, as presented by the game, with transparent and open rules, are welcomed. And champions play on your behalf and carry all of our triumphant ambitions. We cheer and applaud, not just for the next goal, but to resolve some things.


Trinidad and Tobago vs USA, World Cup Qualifying – North/Central America, 11 October 2017.

Also,
CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship


Trinidad and Tobago vs Haiti, Ato Boldon Stadium, in Trinidad & Tobago, 20 January 2018.


Haiti vs Canada, Ato Boldon Stadium, in Trinidad & Tobago, Third Place match, January 28, 2018.