They have profited even as local finances are in crisis, they have extracted value from land even as a protected forest was irreversibly destroyed, and they have won reelection campaigns on a discourse touting “regional development,” even as the Olympics project created little benefit for the public. […]
Hangorin no Kai published the following statement on their website on February 20, 2020. 日本語版はこちら. We condemn the Tokyo Police’s house search against our comrade in the Anti-Olympics struggle! Around 8am on February 18th, the […]
Six months before the start of the Tokyo Olympics, Hangorin no Kai’s Tetsuo Ogawa reflected on the event’s impact on the city’s unhoused residents. The article was originally published on Knock-LA and RioOnWatch on January […]
日本語 | 한국어 | Français The specifics may differ in scope and scale, but the broad forces that the Olympics unleash wherever they take root are the same: the expansion of police and military surveillance, […]
“We were neither consulted nor informed and we note our opposition to the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024.” – Collectif Non aux JO 2024 à Paris In 2017 the Collectif NON aux JO 2024 […]
Representatives from groups in Rio de Janeiro, Pyeongchang, Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles, Seoul, and Jakarta will join forces in Tokyo for an unprecedented transnational coming together of anti-Olympics organizers.
In April 2019, NOlympics LA launched a fundraiser for its July trip to Tokyo for a series of transnational protests and meetings. See the full crowdfunding pitch on Fundly, and watch the accompanying video below. […]
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 […]
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? […]
From 2011 through 2015, the Popular Committee of the World Cup and Olympics produced a series of meticulously researched dossiers of human rights violations tied to Brazil’s mega-events. The national articulation of Popular Committees of […]
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