Pending confirmation by the City Council, Mayor Karen Bass has appointed Renata Simril to the Board of Recreation and Parks Commissioners. Here’s why City Council
In solidarity with the Stop Cop City movement, NOlympics LA is sharing an essay that traces the Olympic roots of Atlanta’s plan to build a
Chris Thompson has spent the last two years lobbying the federal, state, and local government to grease the wheels for the land-grabbing, profit-squeezing, police-budget-inflating machine
In May, NOlympics LA joined anti-Olympics groups from around the world in Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis, France, for our second transnational anti-Olympics gathering. Paris is slated
PRESS RELEASE By Saccage 2024 April 28 2022 Saccage 2024 is a collective of residents, collectives and associations in Seine-Saint-Denis and nearby who defend their
Another day, another opportunity for supercharged displacement driver Airbnb to belittle poor and working class residents in touristy cities. This time around, they’ve locked in
It’s that time of year again. Elites hoping to boost their careers and fatten their wallets have teamed up to bring us yet another Super
Two years and three months behind schedule, the City of Los Angeles and LA28 have finally published the elusive “Games Agreement,” defining how the City
The LA28 Olympic Games Agreement is coming very soon to City Hall Here’s what you need to know: What is the Games Agreement? The Games
We’re deep into 2021 and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are finally over, and it is time to assess the damage done to the host city
By Samikchhya Bhusal Executive Summary Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) emerged in the late 1990s as tools for communities to mitigate the impact of developments through
The Olympics Kill The Poor. They accelerate inequality, policing, and displacement everywhere. Tokyo, Beijing, Paris, Milan, Cortina, Los Angeles, and beyond. Their existence is deadly,
A group of people in Aubervilliers, near Paris, are occupying the city’s workers’ gardens to protest and prevent their conversion into an Olympics-sized swimming pool,
On March 25, 2021, the Olympic torch relay starts at J-Village in Fukushima, where the Great East Japan Earthquake hit and Daiichi Nuclear Plant failed
Boycotting Beijing (And Only Beijing) is a Disingenuous Trap
The line between reporting and PR is so thin it’s often invisible.
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
On an especially nasty Sunday in September, as ash from fires up north covered our cars, coated our lungs, and brought the AQI to triple
On Wednesday, September 9th a few members of NOlympics LA joined a virtual press conference held in Lausanne, Switzerland, headquarters of the International Olympic Committee
Breakdown of an Ill-Timed Olympic Content Dump Last week the millionaires and billionaires at the LA 2028 Olympic Organizing Committee unveiled a long-hyped brand roll
Name: Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE) Date Founded: 1996 Community served: South Los Angeles Mission: “SAJE builds community power and leadership for
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, more people have been paying closer attention to how rules, laws, and regulations get enforced and what that
For much of its existence, the International Olympic Committee has claimed that sports cannot be political. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) argues that sports and
Dissecting the artistic legacy that belies the true narratives of LA ‘84 Sussman/Prejza is the legendary design firm co-founded by the artists Paul Prejza and
For the residents of Los Angeles, the uprising that began on April 29, 1992 was a long time coming. When a majority-white jury acquitted four
Shocking no one, Jose Huizar has finally been arrested on a federal charge of racketeering. The arrest, which took place in the Councilmember’s Boyle Heights
I’m squished inside our makeshift organizing headquarters in Tokyo, the largest city on the planet, with a ragtag bunch of organizers like myself who’ve never
We cannot make our way towards a new world along the misguided path of the old one. We must reject the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
STOP PLAYING GAMES In the last few weeks, we have witnessed the ruling class scramble to respond to the escalating global pandemic and cling to
How indistinguishable is the center-left from the right wing when it comes to homelessness discourse? In the past year, we’ve seen an enormous amount of
On Tuesday, the IOC and Tokyo 2020 announced the postponement of the 2020 Olympics to 2021 due to Covid-19. Holding the Olympics this summer would
As the world struggles to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all witnessing the effects of governmental failures in real time. On March 8th, the
Trump, Sarah Hirshland (who took over for the disgraced Scott Blackmun), and Casey Wasserman The racist slumlord represents everything we’re fighting against Donald Trump is
What you need to know to report on the Olympics responsibly The Olympics catalyze and intensify a myriad of issues: gentrification and displacement, police militarization,
How LA2028’s National Special Security Event will usher in a decade of terror for immigrants and People of Color In the next decade, Los Angeles
Who Wins & Who Loses When Airbnb and the IOC team up? In November, the Olympics and Airbnb announced a nine-year partnership, sounding the alarm
Note: This is an interview between Fernando Guerra and a member of NOlympics LA from December 2018. To read more about Guerra’s relationship to LA2028,
How Fernando Guerra and StudyLA Launder Garcetti’s Narratives at LMU In late October, Loyola Marymount University hosted a fireside chat between Fernando Guerra, director of
In honor of today’s LA84 Youth Sports summit focused on “play equity,” let’s take a moment to test your knowledge of the LA84 Foundation’s real equity, from real estate to finance.
“It’s my building. I can do whatever I want.” That’s how the owner of 1719-1731 Whitley Ave in Hollywood responded when a LATU member informed
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, rampant corruption, crippling financial waste, environmental degradation, mass displacement, and the trampling of individual rights.
The following is part of a series of first hand accounts of displacement and criminalization due to Olympic-driven gentrification. The author chooses to remain anonymous.
For the second installment of an ongoing interview series with our transnational allies, NOlympics LA spoke to Listen to the City, a resistance group based in Seoul who has opposed Pyeongchang 2018 and is concerned about the looming threat of another Olympic bid in 2032. Members of Listen to the City and NOlympics LA are meeting in Tokyo this July.
Name: Ktown for All Date Founded: May 2018 Community served: Koreatown Mission: “Ktown for All is a grassroots volunteer-run neighborhood organization that does weekly outreach
On Monday the International Olympic Committee and Italian ruling class interests decided in an unusual turn that Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo are slated to host
Name: Chinatown Community for Equitable Development (CCED) Date Founded: 2012 Community served: Chinatown Mission: “CCED is an all volunteer, multi-ethnic, intergenerational organization based in Los
The 2019 Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) numbers were supposed to be delivered by the end of May, but it’s May 30 and we
Mike “Mudd” Thorpe, 63, has been homeless in Los Angeles for 5 years. He is a descendant of Jim Thorpe, the first Native American athlete
We all know that companies like Amazon and Facebook cheat their way out of paying federal income taxes, but did you know the IOC and other Olympics-boosting groups have been in the game of tax dodging since before these tech titans were born?
The evidence suggests that the arguments made for why Nicolás Maduro should not be in power apply at least as strongly to those who rule Los Angeles. It’s time to seriously examine the question that our depleted press corps refuses to: is Eric Garcetti’s mayorship illegitimate?
Allyne Andrade reflects on the legacy of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janiero and the assassination of Rio councilwoman Marielle Franco.
A few thoughts on what may be the saddest presidential campaign of all time.
To get a sense of the displacement we’re already seeing from the 2028 Olympics bid and what remains to come, look no further than Dodger Stadium and Dodgertown, the sports complex that erased the working class neighborhood formerly known as Chavez Ravine a half century ago.
We take a moment to catalog our work this year and reflect on the fact that LA 2028 – and its boosters – did nothing to engage with the communities who are already feeling the effects of their unchecked greed.
We break down questions and feedback we’ve received following the release of our recent survey on what people feel, know, and don’t know about the 2028 LA Olympic bid and risks.
NOlympics LA reflects on the loss of Bomber, the real life bald eagle tragically selected by the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Organizing Committee (LAOOC) to play Sam the Eagle, the official mascot of the 1984 Olympics.
“The most vulnerable populations are targeted.”
We went to the LA84 Foundation Summit on “Athlete Activism and Social Justice” this month. Here’s what we found.
We conducted an independent survey of Californians on the 2028 Olympics. The results paint a very different picture than the one claimed by boosters and reflect a reality much closer to what we’ve observed from talking to actual Angelenos.
When we conducted our recent survey on the 2028 Olympics, we gave respondents a chance to share their thoughts in their own words.
There are 5 especially pervasive myths about the Olympics in LA. In order to truly understand the negative consequences of LA 2028, we must unpack them to discover what is truly being sold to us.
We remember the 50th anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre, one of the darkest and most violent events in modern Mexican history, which stands as a solemn reminder of why we continue to fight against the Olympics today
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Are you ready for the best party in your lives? Well, guess what? It’s a POLITICAL PARTY, and you’re invited!!!
Exactly one year ago today, Thomas Bach from the IOC visited Los Angeles, and NOlympics LA was there to give voice to the LA 2028 opposition. We showed up to crash their party.
In the last year, the world of elite sports has been repeatedly rocked by revelations from athletes who have come forward with allegations of abuse and misconduct at the hands of coaches and other powerful authority figures.
We at the LA84 Foundation would like to thank the fringe conspiracy group “No Olympics” for giving us a platform to explain who we are, what our mission is, and why we unequivocally support bringing the Olympics to Los Angeles in 2028 regardless of the material conditions of our city.
Believe it or not, the city of LA has promised one billion dollars in tax incentives to hotel developers over the next 20 years through a
Calgary is fighting an impending Olympic bid for the 2026 Winter Games. We spoke with Daniel Gauld – the founder of No Calgary Olympics and one of the loudest voices in the fight to question and truly scrutinize the IOC’s pernicious tactics.
The idea that cities must be “clean” in order to be attractive and progressive is clearly coded. What makes a city “clean”? What makes a city “dirty”? And who decides what that looks like?
Exactly one year ago, we held a forum — the first and only truly public forum regarding the 2028 Olympic bid — called Stop Playing Games. We’re still here and we’re not going anywhere.
No, but here are some concrete ways in which LA could become an actual sanctuary city.
Eric Garcetti is missing from LA so often that we built a website exclusively to track his whereabouts.
Who do our politicians serve at the end of the day? Take our quiz to see if you can tell who said what – Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti or President Donald Trump?
A rare sighting of the Mayor in Los Angeles…
Activists, academics, organizers, and filmmakers come together to tell the story of Tokyo’s unhoused people and how the Olympics threatens their existence (again).
This Saturday morning Los Angeles’s occasional mayor, Eric Garcetti, was rudely awoken by a contingent of DSA Los Angeles members who were — and still
We’re republishing this analysis of the proposed Koreatown shelters by our partners at LA CAN who have fiercely followed this issue and the issues of shelters and criminalization for decades.
Earlier this year, DSA-LA hosted an interactive forum on police and prison abolition with Alex S. Vitale, author of the new book The End of Policing, who offered us his perspective on the Olympic Games.
It’s been 10 days since we went in front of City Council for the second time to voice our opposition to the proposed development at 3900 Figueroa. Here’s what happened.
NOlympics LA presents a film culled from DSA-LA’s Street Watch team about what our locals leaders say is happening on the streets versus the reality: relentless harassment and shakedowns by city agencies against the unhoused. If this isn’t barbarism, what is?
Los Angeles County is releasing their estimate of the number of residents that are unhoused. We at the Democratic Socialists of America, Los Angeles believe that this number is absolutely unconscionable – it should be zero.
The proposed hotel project at 3900 Figueroa proves that the 2028 Olympics are already being used as an excuse to drive displacement of low-income and rent-burdened tenants in LA and divert civic resources.
LA CAN and NOlympics LA joined forces on March 24, 2018 for the Ride for Justice (Skidrowvia) to show what bike lanes, homelessness, mega-sports, and displacement have to do with each other in the reimagined downtown Los Angeles.
NOlympics celebrates International Workers’ Day with a rundown of all the ways the Olympics sell out athletes, labor, and working class communities at large.
As the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang are set to open later this week despite dire environmental concerns and existential threats to residents near Games sites damaging what’s left of the IOC’s credibility among other dubious organizational concerns, we at NOlympics LA stand with you, our No Tokyo and No Pyeongchang comrades.
Dear Mayor Garcia and Long Beach City Council Members, We write to you as residents of the City of Long Beach who are opposed to
The prospect of Los Angeles hosting World Cup matches in 2026 is not surprising, but it presents another huge problem. The World Cup bid is an obvious attempt to replicate the scenario in Rio, where the World Cup was a smaller scale test before the Olympics. Now, our local elected politicians will likely try to make that happen in Los Angeles without asking the difficult questions.
NOlympics LA stands in solidarity with the people in Tokyo, Paris, and Pyeongchang as they fight back against the greedy thieves of the IOC.