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  • [ October 31, 2024 ] The Paris Olympics are over. The struggle continues. [Translation] *English
  • [ October 24, 2024 ] Book: No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch (2017) *English
  • [ June 28, 2024 ] Transnational statement: Solidarity with all fighting the Olympic machine in Paris, Saint-Denis, Marseille, Tahiti, and beyond *French
  • [ May 4, 2022 ] Press release: International Anti-Olympic Meeting on May 21-22 in Seine-Saint-Denis (France) *English
  • [ November 12, 2021 ] The 2010 Tar Sands Oilympics [Video] *English

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Transnational statement: Solidarity with all fighting the Olympic machine in Paris, Saint-Denis, Marseille, Tahiti, and beyond

June 28, 2024

日本語 | 한국어 | Français This summer, beginning July 26, Paris is set to host its third Olympic games. As residents of Olympic host cities, past and future, we extend our solidarity to the residents […]

*English

All the LA 2024/2028 Bid Books in One Place

January 21, 2021

When the LA 2028 Organizing Committee launched its new website in September 2020, it removed the three “candidature questionnaire” files (collectively known as the “bid book”) that it submitted to the International Olympic Committee in […]

*English

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 […]

*English

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 […]

*English

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 […]

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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 […]

*English

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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