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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: 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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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