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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

Book: No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch (2017)

October 24, 2024

No Boston Olympics’ Chris Dempsey and sports economist Andrew Zimbalist teamed up to write an account of Boston residents’ successful opposition to the 2024 bid, published in 2017. Check out the book here! Blurb from […]

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 […]