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MLS and the Election: Who Are You Voting For? Oct 28, 2020

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There's less than a week remaining before a monumental U.S. election that will affect the lives of all Americans. On this episode of the Movement, host and former MLS player Calen Carr examines the issue of voting rights in America, and travels to the battleground state of Pennsylvania to see how the Black Players for Change and the entire Philadelphia Union organization opened their stadium as a three-day voter service center, despite opposition. Carr speaks with Union defender and rising MLS star Mark McKenzie and a host of other players about voting, and also welcomes USWNT player and U.S. Olympian Danielle Slaton to discuss the challenges athletes face when they play an active role in politics and social issues. Carr also speaks with FC Cincinnati and Charlotte Independence forward Rey Ortiz on the experience of being undocumented in MLS, all with the goal of determining one single but complicated idea: The value of a vote.

Carr delves deep into the right each individual has to cast a vote, and the role Major League Soccer and its players are serving in driving people to the polls. The MLS Unites to Vote campaign has galvanized support from players and coaches to encourage voter participation across the North American soccer landscape, and led to MLS stadiums from coast to coast being utilized as polling places on Election Day.

Black Players for Change: This Is Not Your Distraction Sep 17, 2020

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This is not your distraction. It's not your escape from real life. For some, this is everyday life.

These words adorned the shirts worn on July 8 by nearly 200 black Major League Soccer players, coaches, and staff who gathered for a showing of unity during a summer of historic racial tension in the United States. In the debut episode of The Movement Podcast, host and former MLS player Calen Carr examines how the Black soccer community in MLS embraced the Black Lives Matter movement and formed the Black Players for Change organization. Founded by a collection of prominent players with their own sobering stories of life as Black men in America, the BPC orchestrated a series of demonstrations in July as well as a boycott of nearly all MLS games on one historic night in August, all to raise awareness of racial injustice and police brutality.

Carr offers a candid look at life for these Black players across the North American soccer spectrum via months of interviews with MLS players Warren Creaville, Raymon Gaddis, Jeremy Ebobisse and Ike Opara, as well as passionate supporters eager to join the fight for justice. From the Minneapolis corner where George Floyd died, to a protest in Atlanta following the death of Ahmaud Arbery, to the night when MLS play suddenly stopped after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, players and fans share their experiences from an unprecedented and transformative moment for soccer and social change.

Introducing The Movement Sep 16, 2020

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Based on the award-winning video series, this is The Movement - the podcast. Former MLS player Calen Carr explores the most unique and impactful stories of North American soccer culture, with the debut episode on the newly formed Black Players for Change organization coming soon. Here's a preview of what's to come.

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