Olympics Watch

Gentrification, Greenwashing, and the “Games”: Diary of the First Anti-Olympic Summit in Tokyo

May 27, 2020

This diary was written by a NOlympics LA member in late 2019. I’m squished inside our makeshift organizing headquarters in Tokyo, the largest city on the planet, with a ragtag bunch of organizers like myself [...]

Paris petition: CANCEL the 2024 Olympics

May 25, 2020

More than ever, NO to the Olympics! Sign the petition We cannot make our way towards a new world along the misguided path of the old one. We must reject the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. [...]

NOlympics Anywhere movement announces transnational demands: Cancel the Olympics and redistribute resources

April 18, 2020

Sociologist Adam Talbot published “5 Lessons in Olympic Resistance from Rio” on RioOnWatch on April 19, 2019. See RioOnWatch for the full article in English, Portuguese, French, and Japanese. “From as early as 1932, local social [...]

Strategic Alternative Media at the Rio 2016 Olympics

February 19, 2019

Given that A) Olympics organizers consistently push the notion that the Games are good for cities, countries, and the international community, and B) evidence suggests mainstream media coverage has a tendency to celebrate the Olympic event, what are the possibilities for contesting official and celebratory media narratives about the Olympic Games? […]