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Griner, the June WNBA Cares Community Assist Award recipient, is the second consecutive Mercury player to win the honor. Mercury forward Brianna Turner received the award last season.
Since rejoining the Mercury in February 2023 after being wrongfully detained in Russia, Griner has focused on two service initiatives: Bring Our Families Home (BOFH), a campaign comprised of families of Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained overseas that advocates to spread awareness about their cases and safe return home; and the BG Heart & Sole Shoe Drive, which supports unhoused individuals in the Phoenix community.
Throughout the 2023 WNBA season, Griner teamed up with BOFH to tell the stories of wrongfully detained Americans abroad. The campaign launched in April with the unveiling of a mural at the Mercury’s home arena, Footprint Center, that featured the face of Griner and more than a dozen detained individuals. The 30-foot-wide painting features a QR code that directs to www.BringOurFamiliesHome.org, educating fans about the mission and how to get involved.
Griner and the Mercury hosted families and friends of wrongful detainees at Mercury games in Phoenix and around the country when the team visited other markets, and incorporated in-game PSAs and social media content to keep the names and stories of those detained top-of-mind. Additionally, the BOFH logo was affixed to the Mercury’s home court the entire 2023 season.
As part of the partnership with BOFH, the Mercury set up a letter-writing station at every regular season home game for fans to draft handwritten notes of hope and encouragement to those detained and calls for action to elected officials to continue to work to bring individuals home. Other WNBA teams also participated in the letter-writing campaign at their home games against Phoenix.
Griner founded the BG Heart & Sole Shoe Drive in 2016 to provide new and lightly used shoes to unhoused individuals in the Phoenix metro area. In partnership with the non-profit Phoenix Rescue Mission, Griner’s initiative collected and distributed nearly 3,000 pairs of shoes this season, in addition to other necessary items such as shirts, backpacks, hats and hygiene products.
Additional highlights of Griner’s efforts in the community during the 2023 WNBA season are included below:
BOFH awareness for families: The Mercury content team, on behalf of Griner, elevated the voices of families of several currently detained individuals including family of Zack Shahin, Emad Shargi (returned home in September 2023), Morad Tahbaz (returned home in September 2023), Luke Denman, Austin Tice, Eyvin Hernandez and Alexandra Forseth (co-founder of BOFH campaign).
BG’s Heart & Sole Shoe Drive: Before Phoenix’s first home game of the season, a Mercury season-ticket holder inspired by Griner’s commitment donated 452 pairs of shoes that had been collected in the offseason. On May 26, Griner participated in the first shoe distribution of the season, at a soup kitchen in downtown Phoenix. On Sept. 6, the Mercury hosted its second distribution event at the St. Vincent de Paul Washington Street Shelter in south Phoenix.
The WNBA Cares Community Assist Award is awarded monthly during the season to the player who best reflects the WNBA’s passion to make a difference in the community. In recognition of Griner’s commitment to the community throughout the 2023 WNBA season, the WNBA will donate $20,000 to be split among charities of Griner’s choice: Bring our Families Home and Phoenix Rescue Mission.
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Free Austin Tice. And Evan Gershkovich. And…
This is our last formal issue of 2023. We will return Jan 4, 2024. We are hoping to get another ten paid subscribers by the end of this year, to ensure we’ll be able to exist to the end of next year. Source : www.counteroffensive.news/p/free-au…
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KXAN.com: ‘JU$TICE NOW’: New campaign aims to address systemic economic inequalities in Austin-area
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Blinken says US in talks with Syria over case of missing American journalist Austin Tice By Reuters
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© Reuters. File photo: Debra Tice, America’s mother. Journalist Austin Tice reacts after a news conference on December 4, 2018 in Beirut, Lebanon. Reuters/Mohammed Azakir/File photo
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by Humaira Pamuk and Daphne Saledakis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is extensively engaged in the case of an American journalist who disappeared a decade ago with Syria and other countries, US…
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Braves Bats Shine In Win.
Twins 4 Braves 9 W-Fried (4-0) L-Sanchez (0-4)
The Minnesota Twins played their last split-squad of the spring. Half of the Twins and Braves played in games in North Port and Fort Myers. The Twins were ready from the start at Cool Today Park. Donovan Solano reached on a pop up to second base that Hoy Park couldn’t catch. With two outs, Kyle Garlick smoked a Max Fried offering out to left for a two-run blast. The Twins had a two-run lead before the Braves grabbed a bat. The Braves bounced back in the second as Michael Harris looped a single to center. Ryan LaMarre inexplicably threw behind him as he went to second. Ozzie Albies lined a single to right and Forrest Wall hit a run-scoring single to left to put Atlanta on the board. The Braves got back to work in the third when Ronald Acuna led-off with a triple to left-center. Matt Olson hit an RBI groundout to even the game at two all. Austin Riley kept the chain moving with a walk and Sean Murphy singled to right. Michael Harris lined a run-scoring single to right to put the Braves on top. Forrest Wall plated a pair with a double to right-center as the Braves led 5-2 after three frames. The Twins would jump ahead in the fourth wihen Tony Wolters and Ryan LaMarre walked. Mark Contreras hit an RBI groundout to inch the Twins within two. Hoy Park led-off the fourth with a walk and Ronald Acuna smoked an Aaron Sanchez fastball out to left for a two-run homer. The Twins loaded the bases quickly in the sixth and Mark Contreras hit a sac fly to left. The Braves kept adding on in the seventh as Joe Hudson led-off with a single and Ozzie Albies tripled him home. Forrest Wall hit an RBI groundout to put Atlanta up 9-4. Ty Tice threw up a zero in the eighth and Matt Swarmer struck out two in the ninth as the Braves picked up two wins against the Twins today.
-Final Thoughts- Aaron Sanchez had another horrible outing this spring. He gave up seven runs on eight hits with two strikeouts over three innings. Matt Mullenbach had a 1-2-3 fourth, Danny Coulombe fanned two over two scoreless innings, and Brock Stewart gave up two runs in the seventh. Derek Molina put up a zero in the eighth. Kyle Garlick homered off Max Fried and had two hits. Mark Contreras had two hits as well. The Twins hit 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base. The Twins will head over to JetBlue Park tomorrow to play the Red Sox. Sonny Gray will face Chris Sale tomorrow afternoon.
-Chris Kreibich-
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Real war footage 2013
A frame grab from a video released in August shows a fighter from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fires his weapon during clashes with Islamic State group fighters in Raqqa. The shutdowns were chilling for a community that had just celebrated a possible precedent for Syria when the International Criminal Court in August issued an arrest warrant based on video evidence for a Libyan military commander. But many activists fear a repeat or a permanent loss. YouTube, which is owned by Google, says it will correct any videos improperly taken down and that it is in dialogue with the activists on a solution. “But this is very dangerous because there is no alternative for YouTube.” “Nothing is lost forever yet,” al-Khatib said, speaking from Berlin. But about 150,000 videos remain in jeopardy, pending a decision from YouTube, which is still reviewing whether to reinstate them, he said. Working with YouTube, al-Khatib’s group secured the return of about 20 channels, salvaging about 400,000 videos. We don’t have control of it,” said Hadi al-Khatib, co-founder of the Syrian Archive, a group founded in 2014 to preserve open source evidence of crimes committed by all sides of the Syrian conflict.īased on his database and review of around 900 groups and individuals, al-Khatib said some 180 channels connected to Syria were shut since June when YouTube began using machine learning protocols to sift through videos on the site for objectionable content. “It is like we are writing our memories – not in our own book but in a third party’s book. Activists say crucial evidence of human rights violations risks being lost – as well as an outlet to the world that is crucial for them.Īctivists are rushing to set up alternative archives, but they also recognize nothing can replace YouTube because of its technological infrastructure and global reach. In the past few months, the online video giant has implemented new policies to remove material considered graphic or supporting terrorism and hundreds of thousands of videos from the conflict suddenly disappeared without notice. Syrian activists fear all that history could be erased as YouTube moves to rein in violent content. Hundreds of thousands of amateur videos uploaded to YouTube document every heartbeat of the war over the past seven years, from momentous events like cities under bombardment to intimate scenes like a father cradling his dead children. Mom of abducted American journalist says Biden ‘ready to engage' with SyriaīEIRUT - Syria’s civil war has been one of the modern world’s most brutal conflicts and one of its most heavily filmed. Syria rejects Biden claim it's holding Austin Tice 10 years after kidnapping ISIS 'Beatle' sentenced to life in prison in killing of 4 AmericansĪt least 14 killed in shelling on north Syria market, rescuers say
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Syria denies holding Austin Tice despite Biden's demand for his release
Syria denies holding Austin Tice despite Biden’s demand for his release
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Dear Vera,
#just a friendly reminder#free Austin tice#find a way to negotiate with Syrian “leadership#but we don’t do that type of thing?#why tf not?#if he’s alive get this brave marine/journalist/brother/son home#one day is too many#god bless#jabber is 🧐#jabber hollows out a cave and shouts things#personal
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Syria denies kidnapping US citizens after Biden's words about journalist Austin Tice
Syria denies kidnapping US citizens after Biden’s words about journalist Austin Tice
Archive – Austin Tice – FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM / ZUMA PRESS / CONTACTOPH
The Syrian government denied this Wednesday that it had kidnapped or disappeared US citizens after US President Joe Biden urged Damascus to “return home” journalist Austin Tice, “kidnapped” ten years ago and whose disappearance Washington blames directly the Government of Bashar al Assad.
“Last week, the US administration…
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Syria Denies It Is Holding American Journalist Austin Tice : Inside US
Syria Denies It Is Holding American Journalist Austin Tice : Inside US
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria denied on Wednesday it is holding U.S. journalist Austin Tice or other Americans after President Joe Biden accused the Syrian government of detaining him.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Damascus “denies it had kidnapped or is holding any American citizen on its territories.”
Biden’s comments last week came in a statement released by the White…
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10 Years After Disappearing in Syria, Freedom Is Elusive for U.S. Journalist
10 Years After Disappearing in Syria, Freedom Is Elusive for U.S. Journalist
BEIRUT — Ten years after the American journalist Austin Tice disappeared in Syria as the country descended into a brutal civil war, and was believed to have been held captive by the government of President Bashar al-Assad since, his release still remains elusive.
While one of his employers says that efforts to secure his freedom are picking up steam, his family remains unconvinced that the Biden…
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Media Execs Say Biden Must 'Do More' to Free Austin Tice
Media Execs Say Biden Must ‘Do More’ to Free Austin Tice
Austin Tice has fun playing the darbuka, a Middle Eastern drum, while reporting in Yabroud, Syria.
The administration of President Joe Biden will continue to work directly with the Syrian government to locate and return Austin Tice, a journalist who has been missing for a decade in Syria, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday.
Blinken was speaking at an event at the National Press Club…
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10 years after Austin Tice disappeared in Syria, his family continues their fight:
10 years after Austin Tice disappeared in Syria, his family continues their fight:
American journalist Austin Tice (portrait on the left) was kidnapped in Syria in 2012. Here his parents, Debra and Marc Tice, give a press conference in Beirut in 2018.
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American journalist Austin Tice (portrait on the left) was kidnapped in Syria in 2012. Here his parents, Debra and Marc Tice, give a press…
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