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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 […]

Analysis

Organizing a Transnational Anti-Olympics Summit: An Oral History, Part 1

June 17, 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 […]

Article

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 […]

Article

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

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

April 18, 2020

日本語 | 한국어 | Français Following the postponement of Tokyo 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic, the transnational NOlympics Anywhere coalition, with participants from Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, and Pyeongchang, released a statement with four key demands: Cancel all […]

English

Statement: “There is no place for the Olympics in Fukushima”

March 18, 2020

We refuse to recognize this “fake recovery” that conceals the real damage and ignores the victims who are still suffering. We cannot accept these “Recovery Olympics,” which use sports as a tool to deceive the world’s athletes. […]

Community / activist media

Hangorin no Kai Condemn Tokyo Police for Targeting Anti-Olympics Organizer

February 21, 2020

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 […]

Article

2020 is a Sinister Year for Homeless People in Tokyo: Why the Olympics are to Blame

February 17, 2020

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 […]

Community / activist media

NOlympics Anywhere: A Joint Statement in Solidarity

August 9, 2019

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, […]

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