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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Article

‘NOlympics Anywhere’: Unprecedented Transnational Olympics Protest in Tokyo

August 4, 2019

Clique aqui para português (publicado no RioOnWatch.org.br) Tens of thousands of Tokyo residents heard the drumline. Tens of thousands saw the jubilant parade of hundreds of banner-bearing protesters. And tens of thousands heard the chants […]

Art

Itinerary: Anti-Olympics One Year to Go International Get-together

July 14, 2019

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.

Community / activist media

NOlympics LA Launches Fundraiser to Go To Tokyo

April 26, 2019

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. […]

Analysis

RioOnWatch: ‘5 Lessons in Olympic Resistance’

April 26, 2019

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 […]

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Anti-Olympics, Anti-Poverty Torch Travels on to Tokyo

November 25, 2018

The Anti Pyeongchang Olympics Alliance traveled to Japan to hand over the Anti-Olympics Torch to allies in Tokyo. Ahead of the 2010 Games, Vancouver activists made this alternative torch out of — get ready for […]

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