While many AEGEE members were spending their time green travelling with the destination Mannheim, the Sports Working Group (SWG) was hosting a football tournament for the ones already in the city. The idea behind the active afternoon was not only to raise awareness about physical activity but also to inform members about the topic of racism in sports. In a… Read more →
In a nice, warm spring day last year, AEGEE members were kicking a football around at the first day of Spring Agora Enschede. This will happen again this year in Spring Agora Rhein-Neckar with some more organisations ensuring to raise awareness about the fight against racism. The Sports Working Group (SWG) keeps working with Policy Officer on Social Inclusion Stephanie Müller… Read more →
A few weeks ago, the football team AEK Athens won against Veria, which made Giorgos Katidis want to celebrate. He did this, using the Nazi salute. Katidis (20) says he had no idea what the gesture stands for. His coach Ewald Lienen states that Katidis is young and does not have any political views, so he absolutely did not mean… Read more →
Idaho might remind the geography brains about some place in the United States of America, but it is obviously not the Idaho that the Sports Working Group (SWG) will bring to AEGEE. Lately, the SWG has been working with two policy officers on two different, but yet a bit similar subjects; organising events combating homophobia and racism in AEGEE. Recently,… Read more →
“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” Abrahah J. Heschel (Jewish theologian and philosopher, 1907-1972) For a long time before starting this article, I was thinking about how to start it, and at last I have not found anything better than to just take a quote of Abraham Heschel, who… Read more →
