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  • [ December 23, 2020 ] In Paris, ‘Toxic Tour’ Denounces Olympics Development Projects Article
  • [ October 26, 2020 ] NOlympics LA Hosts ‘Pick a Side’ Town Hall Analysis
  • [ August 3, 2020 ] Transnational Teach-in: Stadium-Driven Displacement in Los Angeles Article
  • [ July 8, 2020 ] Transnational Teach-in: Anti-Olympics Organizing in France Article
  • [ June 18, 2020 ] Organizing a Transnational Anti-Olympics Summit: An Oral History, Part 2 Analysis

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In Paris, ‘Toxic Tour’ Denounces Olympics Development Projects

December 23, 2020

This article was originally published in French by Ouest-France. At the Parc de la Courneuve, the green lung of the Seine-Saint-Denis department*, the anti-Olympic front is mobilizing against development projects for the Paris 2024 Olympic […]

Analysis

NOlympics LA Hosts ‘Pick a Side’ Town Hall

October 26, 2020

You cannot support both the Olympics and the movement for Black Lives. That was the central argument put forth at the “Pick a Side Town Hall,” hosted on October 21 by NOlympics LA.  The LA […]

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Transnational Teach-in: Stadium-Driven Displacement in Los Angeles

August 3, 2020

By Mark A. Matney, Jr. For the fourth installment of the current series of transnational teach-ins hosted by NOlympics LA, the focus was on Los Angeles. As we hope the reader is aware, the IOC […]

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Transnational Teach-in: Anti-Olympics Organizing in France

July 8, 2020

By Gigi Droesch On June 27, NOlympics LA hosted the third event in its transnational teach-in series, titled “NO to the Games!: Organizing to abolish the Olympics in France.” The presentation and discussion was led by […]

Analysis

Organizing a Transnational Anti-Olympics Summit: An Oral History, Part 2

June 18, 2020

Compiled by Cerianne Robertson In July 2019, community organizers from Rio de Janeiro, Pyeongchang, Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles, and (2032 candidate) Jakarta came together in Tokyo for the first-ever transnational anti-Olympics summit. Centered around a […]

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Transnational Teach-in: Environmental Destruction in Pyeongchang

June 16, 2020

By Naomi Williams On June 13, NOlympics LA hosted the second event in its “Stop Playing Games” transnational teach in series, titled “Olympic Disaster: Environmental Destruction in Pyeongchang.” As opposed to the first teach-in, which […]

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Transnational Teach-in: Tokyo’s Criminalization of Houselessness

June 9, 2020

By Cerianne Robertson “The communities unhoused residents have built over a long time are being destroyed for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.” This was the main message of Misako Ichimura, an unhoused community organizer in […]

Academic media

New book: “NOlympics: Critiquing Tokyo 2020/1”

June 4, 2020

A new German-language book edited by Steffi Richter, Andreas Singler, Dorothea Mladenova explores the Tokyo 2020 Olympics spectacle at the intersection of disaster and celebration capitalism. It features chapters from Ichimura Misako, Koide Hiroaki, Ukai […]

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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 […]

Community / activist media

Paris petition: CANCEL the 2024 Olympics

May 25, 2020

More than ever, NO to the Olympics! 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. The Olympics have […]

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