​Amateurism transforms
children
into unpaid laborers
who are routinely exploited
by an 
unregulated
and violent
​industry.
We undertake this work in order to prevent unnecessary suffering.

​Hand-to-hand activism can change minds.

Like Devin Shivers
who quit tackle football at the age of 17.
After learning the facts about brain injuries, 
Shivers knew
it was time to call it quits.
"My health is more important than just a game."
Joshua Mileto, 16, 
died on August 10, 2017.

Carlos Sanchez, 16,
​died on October 22nd, 2017.
​
2017          
NORTH ANDOVER, MA. -- On 11/10/17 Gabe DeSouza
taken from the field in an ambulance.

COLUMBUS, IN. -- Junior quarterback Trenton Kelley
had to have his spleen removed.
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FAIRLESS HILLS, PA. -- Jared Troyano, 17, suffered
a concussion on August 25th, 2017.
His mother, Amy: "What happened to Jared
was what I feared most."

OAKHURST, CA. -- Peter ‘PJ’ Kuzmitski,
4-foot-11, 110 pound 9th grader,
lost his right leg below the knee
after a horrible injury during a Sept. 27 football practice.

BROOMFIELD, CO. -- Sophomore, Cameron Shelly
was temporarily paralyzed
after suffering a spinal injury
during football practice.

HILLSBOROUGH, NC -- Thys Oldenburg, 14,
injured in a football game on 10/12
emerged from a coma on 11/20.

CHARLO, MONTANA: -- Nick Daugherty
HS Sophomore
“He went to the ICU with a football concussion.
Two months later, he’s still out of school.”

ELDON, MO: -- Hunter Bushnell
suffered a severe spinal injury
in practice on 9/20/17
and is paralyzed from the chest down. 

PITTSBORO, NC: -- Hillside High School football player Corey Mitchell,
released from hospital.

GLASGOW, KY: -- Tanner Slagle
was transported from the field
on a backboard, into an ambulance.

MISHAWAKA, IN: -- Alex Fish taken from field on stretcher.

FORTUNA, CA: -- Bailey Foley’s football injury was suffered on 8/25/17.
“It was more than a month before Foley could fully speak
and even now his voice is soft and raspy. In hours of therapy a day,
he’s relearning simple motor skills: how to brush his teeth,
how to put on a shirt, how to walk.”

MONTGOMERY, AL: — On 10/24/17 C.J. Knight
suffered a severe neck injury during practice
and was airlifted to Children's Hospital in Birmingham
where he underwent two surgeries.
​As of 11/2, C.J. was paralyzed from the chest down
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--Activists recount a week of suffering.--​
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Along with an untold number 
whose injuries
are unnoticed and uncared for.​