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Informing people about the effects the 2028 olympics will bring.

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Excuses rising
Many resources wasted
Goodbye Olympics

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Olympics = evictions. 3,000 more cops=criminalization of our neighbors not safety #NoOlympics

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Olympics dark side?

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Many resources waisted
Excuses rising up
Goodbye Olympics

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Olympics are used as an excuse to hire more police officers.

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They make a LOT of new infrastructure over many years leading up to the olympics and the money comes from other places such as education and healthcare.

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LA's Olympics hosted in 1984 was the only profitable games in modern Olympic history.

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Im wondering why cant they make the stadium and the games away from the city to avoid creating discomfort among the communities .

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We want to try to stay informed about what is happening and make sure voices of people in these neighborhoods are part of the discussion about what happens in their neighborhoods.

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How the 2028 olympics will affect people experiencing homelessness.

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Olympics increase the police force presents in the area where the games are held. This results in evictions, unjustified privacy breaches, increased surveillance and police brutality. Even years after the Olympics the police presence stays

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That the Olympics are being used as an excuse to raise police pay and to hire more police.

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that the 2010 winter Olympics strongly affected the native populations of Canada in a negative way.

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How will it be like when the olympics comes to LA?

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I knew police brutality has been a huge problem in our world for the past 100 years or so (however long police have been around and then soldiers before them) but this is ridiculous. 24,684 people of color who were arrested for absolutely no reason, completely ridiculous.

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how will the Olympics affect people in poorer areas when they come to Los Angeles in 2028, will people have to move or suffer because of the need for more space?

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How will the 2028 olympics affect Los Angeles

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John Carlos is best known as the man who, along with Tommie Smith, raised a clenched fist-the Black Power salute-on the medal stand after the 200 meter race. Carlos took bronze, and Smith gold, at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. But that moment was a culmination of months of political discussion among black leaders in America. One such discussion happened in early 1968 in New York City. Carlos explains, in a section excerpted from The John Carlos Story , written with Dave Zirin.

I recall going down to the Americano that evening, walking into the lobby and being just overwhelmed by the size of it all. I had never really made time in the downtown Manhattan hotels and my eyes almost popped out of my head. It looked like a movie set, with 50-foot-high ceilings, gaudy chandeliers, and the kind of deep, smoky woodwork that looked like it had been carved and sanded for kings. It crossed my mind that I'd turn the corner and bump into John Dillinger. I gathered myself and I went up to the room where the meeting was to take place.

When I entered that room, I had no expectations whatsoever as to who might be at the meeting or anything of the sort. I just knew it would be the place to be to talk boycott. Other than Harry Edwards, I had no idea who would be there or why. When I walked in, I was immediately shocked to see some of the social-movement political giants that I had seen on television-Andrew Young for one, and Ralph Abernathy, the number two man of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). I was thinking to myself that I couldn't possibly get in trouble with my parents for walking out on that paint job because the SCLC could do no wrong in our household. I was already feeling like gold and awestruck around Abernathy and Young. But not in my wildest imagination was I ready for the next individual to walk into the room: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. When he walked into our meeting, for the first time in my life I was absolutely and completely tongue-tied. All I could do at that precise moment was think about my mother. My momma admired Dr. King so much, she could talk about him and tears would pool in the corners of her eyes. She felt like Dr. King was the first lieutenant to God, sent to this planet to heal the sins of this nation. At that moment, all I could think was, "Wow! I wish that my Mom could be a rock in my pocket or a bug on my lapel and just be here to take in this moment." I was in awe. I know I probably looked completely unnerved, but Dr. King had this way of putting the people around him at ease. He came out with such a warm manner-you could say an almost comedic style-and it relaxed all the young athletes who might have been starstruck in his presence.

If Dr. King had been born in another life and another skin, and didn't get involved in religion and the civil rights movement, he could have made a Brinks truck worth of money as a stand-up comic because he was so funny and charismatic, cracking jokes before the meeting, putting everyone in stitches and making us all comfortable. Then, with Dr. King present and accounted for, the meeting started in earnest. Dr. King made it clear from the beginning that he wasn't just there to lend moral support. He wanted to help us hammer out a plan and he made it clear that he would be a public supporter of the Olympic boycott. He also stated that while we had his public support, he wouldn't and couldn't be the lead man at the front of the march and in front of the cameras. He said that it would do the movement no favors. He wanted Harry Edwards to be the lead man, and said he would be very happy taking marching orders from Harry on this. Dr. King felt the boycott was a very worthy project and could prove to be a mighty platform to make clear the need to establish justice and equality for all men and women on this planet. He said that our strongest leverage was that an Olympic boycott could have a global reach. We could shock the world and we could do it by also adhering to the principles of nonviolence that he held so dear. We could bring attention to the problems of society, but we did not have to throw a rock or burn a building in order to do so.

This was Dr. King's methodology. He understood that militancy didn't mean violence. He understood that courage did not mean throwing punches. Sometimes it meant just the opposite. He also told us that if we wanted to go down and hold a demonstration during the Olympics in Mexico City, he would join us and bring the civil rights marches people knew from Selma and Montgomery right to the Mexican capital. I still remember him saying that he would get to work on that right after he saw through this garbage strike he was working on supporting in Memphis, Tennessee.

At the end of the meeting, I finally found my voice and was able to ask two questions of Dr. King. The first question I asked him, very respectfully, was why this idea of an Olympic boycott was attractive to him. He expressed to me that the concept and visual power of an Olympic boycott would be like a ripple in the water spreading throughout the world to let people know that the people of color of this earth were very disenchanted about their treatment and we could aspire to something better as a human race. He said that the visual power was in the void it would create: an Olympics without black athletes. He said that the process would be like black soldiers stepping back from the military. "We're not saying 'burn it down,'" he said. "We're just merely saying we don't care to participate and see how you feel without us as a part of the show." I totally agreed. We weren't throwing any fire. We were just saying that we choose not to go. We felt like we had to step up because as I remember someone saying at the meeting, "If not us, who?" How do you become a "leader"? Well it helps if you decide that you are going to lead.

My second question to Dr. King was something a lot of people in the room were wondering and it had nothing to do with anything that had to do with the Olympics. We wanted to know, "Why are you going back to Memphis when they are threatening your life?" Remember, Dr. King had been back and forth to Memphis where he was supporting a sanitation strike that had gotten so violent it became an article of faith that Dr. King had been marked for death. We all knew it. We knew that if someone had a clear shot at this great man, the trigger would be squeezed. He was addressing not just racism at home but also standing up against the war in Vietnam. He was just becoming too dangerous to too many people. At that moment, Dr. King made a very positive statement directly to me. He said, "John, I have to go back and stand for those that won't stand for themselves, and I have to go back for those that can't stand for themselves." The way he said it was very distinct and very precise. Once again, he said he had to "stand for those who won't stand for themselves, and stand for those who can't stand for themselves." Won't and can't: he had enough room in his heart for both. When Dr. King said that, it made my life more certain. Maybe this is just the way I remember it more than forty years later, but that moment gave me a direction. Until then I was kind of a rebel without a cause, like Brando when they said, "What are you rebelling against?" and he replied,"What have you got?" I never had any kind of a game plan or formula for what I was going to do in my life. I didn't have a compass. I would improvise and speak out against injustice as I saw it arise. But when Dr. King said those words to me, it was like he joined my mind and my heart and guided them toward one direction. This is when I became a heart and soul member of what we called the Olympic Project for Human Rights.

Excerpted from the book The John Carlos Story. Copyright © 2011 by John Carlos and Dave Zirin.

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"An Olympics Without Black Athletes": Martin Luther King Jr., John Carlos, And The Boycott That Wasn't

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John Carlos is best known as the man who, along with Tommie Smith, raised a clenched fist-the Black Power salute-on the medal stand after the 200 meter race. Carlos took bronze, and Smith gold, at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. But that moment was a culmination of months of political discussion among black leaders in America.

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The image of sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their fists during a medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City is an enduring image of silent protest. But the key to understanding it goes beyond the black-gloved fists.

All three medal winners, including silver medalist Peter Norman of Australia, wore buttons that read "Olympic Project for Human Rights." The Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) was a coalition of prominent athletes formed in 1967 that threatened to boycott participating in the upcoming Olympic Games to draw attention to systemic racism in the United States.

The group, led by professor Harry Edwards, ultimately voted to compete in the games and hold their demonstrations there, which led to the now-iconic display on the medal stand following the men's 200-meter final. This act got Smith and Carlos kicked off the Olympic team, but it left a lasting legacy about making political statements through sport.

Watch the video above to learn more about the OPHR. You can find this video and all of Vox's videos on YouTube. And if you're interested in supporting our video journalism, you can become a member of the Vox Video Lab on YouTube.

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The story behind this iconic Olympics protest

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The image of sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their fists during a medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City is an enduring image of silent protest. But the key to understanding it goes beyond the black-gloved fists.

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Informing my family about the effects of the Olympics come 2021.

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Haiku LA28 (Group 2– Julian, Charlotte, Sacha)

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Haiku LA28 (Group 2– Julian, Charlotte, Sacha)

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A global project
hurting without consequence
enter NOlympics

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learn more about how the Olympics is situated in history

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Los Angeles 2028’s Janet Evans tells GSW Paris that athletes will be "encouraged" to stand up for their beliefs

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Los Angeles 2028’s Janet Evans tells GSW Paris that athletes will be "encouraged" to stand up for their beliefs

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https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1103811/janet-evans-la-2028-gsw-paris

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How can we make the olympics more accessible and inclusive for working class people?

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LA 28
Heightened security
Not convincing me

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I had no idea that the olympics are so harmful.

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How will los angeles

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Rio de Janeiro has faced difficulty in the past with the Olympics, and the politicians who run the city are spending more time and money on vanity projects which segregate, divide, and gentrify the city, than on projects that will help the people living there.

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Is 13,000 officers a lot or a little? What are statistics for other Olympics?

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The olympics aren't about sports anymore. There are themes of youth abuse, profit over people, tourism that displaces working class families, all while the same exclusive companies with their own agendas (no grassroots organizations) are involved in the finances.

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How will the Olympics affect infrastructure in low income Los Angeles neighborhoods?

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How do the Olympics cause gentrification?

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If LA hosts the 2028 games there will be more police and thus more opportunities for police brutality

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How much money is really being diverted to the Olympics?

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The Department of Homeland Security will also be brought in to safeguard the Olympics.

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In past cases, improvements to infrastructure and housing that are seen as beneficial for a host city only end up being useful during the olympics.

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LA wants to hire 3,000 more cops for the upcoming sports events such as the world cup and olympics

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I am wondering if there is a way that we can continue to celebrate sports and give an opportunity for distinguished athletes to use their platform for social justice movements (since they have the eye of the entire world on them, united by sports) but make it less intrusive on the host countries and make the olympics more sustainable?

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Why are police needed for the Olympics?

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What the "Pick a Side" campaign is, who it's made up of

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Here are some of the highlights, broken down by category.

LA 1984 / LA 2028 / LA 1932 / Covid and The Olympics / SoFi Stadium, Clippers Arena, & Inglewood Displacement / Housing, Evictions, Tenant Harassment & Abuse in LA / Homelessness in LA / Depression of Tourism Income / Sanctuary, Deportation, and Immigrant Rights in LA / Police Militarization, Surveillance, and Violence in LA / The Financial Brinksmanship of the Olympics / Eric Garcetti's Legacy / The IOC's Extensive History of Corruption and Scandals / IOC Patterns of Exploitation, Displacement, and Militarization / The Olympics & Sexual Abuse, Labor Abuse / The Olympics & Fascism, Nationalism, Authoritarianism / The Olympics & Capitalism / The Olympics & Doping / The Transnational Anti-Olympics Movement / Tokyo 2020 / Beijing 2022 / Paris 2024 / Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo 2026 / Calgary 2026 Bid / Denver 1976 Bid / Denver 2030 Bid / Vancouver 2030 Bid / Salt Lake City 2030 Bid / Boston 2024 Bid / Chicago 2016 Bid / Pyeongchang 2018 / Rio 2016 / Sochi 2014 / London 2012 / Vancouver 2010 / Beijing 2008 / Athens 2004 / Salt Lake City 2002 / Sydney 2000 / Atlanta 1996 / Barcelona 1992 / Seoul 1988 / World Cup 2026 Bid / Amazon HQ2 Project
LA 1984
Read our comprehensive analysis of the LA 84 Olympics here.

"As the games approached, mounted police and narcotics officers launched sweeps of homeless residents in Downtown neighborhoods where tourists were expected to gather, the LA Times reported. Dozens of homeless residents were arrested, sent to detox centers, or forced to relocate while their belongings were discarded." ( Curbed)

LA 2024 / 2028

"There is a clash of democracy and Olympic exigency at work here," Boykoff says of the City Council's hurried vote yesterday. "The Los Angeles bid committee is rushing along like a greyhound chasing a mechanical rabbit, going right along with the IOC's timeline." ( LA Weekly)

LA 1932 Covid and The Olympics SoFi Stadium, Clippers Arena, & Inglewood Displacement Housing in LA

"#HomesNotHotels advocates fear this city-endorsed development will increase in the buildup to the 2028 Olympics, as officials scramble to expand the region's tourism infrastructure. They say this would result not just in more hotel conversions, but also in gentrification, and the increased criminalization of homelessness in the surrounding areas." ( LA Magazine)

Homelessness in LA Depression of Tourism Income

"There is little evidence that tourism increases during the Games. Rather, Olympic tourists replace normal tourists who want to stay away to avoid the congestion and greater expense during the Games." ( The Atlantic)

Sanctuary, Deportation, and Immigrant Rights in LA Police Militarization, Surveillance, and Violence in LA

"California's gang database, CalGang, contains anywhere from 90,000 to 150,000 names, many belonging to people who aren't gang members at all... People labeled as gang members face harsher sentencing guidelines in criminal trials and can be subjected to gang injunctions, which are basically restraining orders that make otherwise legal activities - walking down a certain street, wearing certain colors, interacting with certain people - illegal and subject to criminal prosecution." ( Intelligencer)

The Financial Brinkmanship of the Olympics Eric Garcetti's Legacy The IOC's Extensive History of Corruption and Scandals

"IOC members shall be greeted with a smile when arriving at their hotel." ( IOC demand as reported by Slate)

IOC Patterns of Displacement and Militarization

"Rio de Janeiro's preparations for next year's Olympic Games were marred on Wednesday by a bloody confrontation between police and residents who resisted attempts to forcibly remove them from their homes near the stadium construction site..."They came with bulldozers and fired rubber bullets at the residents as well as percussion grenades," said the head of the Vila Autódromo association, Altair Guimarães. "I was hit with a baton by the municipal guard."" ( The Guardian)

The Olympics & Sexual Abuse, Labor Abuse The Olympics & Fascism, Nationalism, Authoritarianism

"The IOC's brand of apoliticism is, in fact, deeply political - the IOC needs a walk-in closet for all of its political skeletons. It staged the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with full awareness that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were gaining power and using the Games against Jewish people by instituting an "Aryans-only" policy within German sports organizations. It allowed an all-white apartheid South African team to compete until it grudgingly banned the country in the 1960s in the face of worldwide pressure. For two decades, the IOC's president was Juan Antonio Samaranch, an unrepentant functionary for the Franco regime in Spain." ( NBC News)

The Olympics & Capitalism The Olympics & Doping The Transnational Anti-Olympics Movement

"Until the corrupt forces that drive these parasitic events relinquish control, we oppose the Olympic Games in any and all locations." ( NOlympics Anywhere statement)

Tokyo 2020
Read the NOlympics Guide to Tokyo 2020 here.

"Tens of thousands still haven't recovered in Fukushima, displaced by nuclear radiation and unable to return to deserted places like Futaba. "This recovery Olympics is in name only," Toshihide Yoshida told The Associated Press. He was forced to abandon Futaba and ended up living near Tokyo. "The amount of money spent on the Olympics should have been used for real reconstruction."" ( NBC/AP)

Beijing 2022 Paris 2024

"Paris Councillor Danielle Simonnet has called for a referendum on whether the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games should be held in the French capital after a recent survey found that 62 per cent of 6,612 voters claimed they are in favour of them being cancelled." ( InsideTheGames)

Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo 2026 Calgary 2026 Bid Denver 1976 Bid

"It soon became clear the so-called "economical Games" were also part of the "little lie" necessary to win the bid. Organizers managed to put forth a referendum on the 1972 ballot - organisers for Boston's 2024 Olympic bid are trying something similar - which would amend the state's constitution to specifically prohibit the state from levying taxes or appropriating funds to aid the staging of the Denver Games... Coloradans overwhelming supported the constitutional amendment, effectively rejecting the Games, as a United Press International report stated the measure passed by over 1.5 to 1." ( The Guardian)

Denver 2026/2030 Bid Vancouver 2030 Bid Salt Lake City 2030 Bid Boston 2024 Bid

""Put all of it together and you start to see a real rejection by places where people have a voice," said Victor Matheson, a sports economist whose research has shown that Olympics have few tangible economic benefits for the places that host them. "Cities are wising up."" ( HuffPost)

Chicago 2016 Bid Pyeongchang 2018

"Amid cheering crowds and newly minted Olympic champions, the Winter Games have left Jong and his fellow ski shop owners facing financial ruin after the local slopes were taken over for the competition." ( The Guardian)

Rio 2016 Sochi 2014

"The run-up to the Games has been marred by abuses against Sochi residents and migrant workers toiling on Olympic construction, and by the adoption of a discriminatory antigay law." ( Human Rights Watch)

London 2012 Vancouver 2010

"If the cost is increasing the marginalization of people who are already marginalized within cities, leaving cities and governments at all levels hugely in debt, affecting the long-term success of the population because of the lack of social services because they're trying to pay off the debt of these Games - is it worth it?" ( CBC)

Beijing 2008 Athens 2004 Salt Lake City 2002

"In a declaration filed in discovery in the case in U.S. district court in Utah, Drake asserted the NSA, in coordination with the FBI, scooped up and stored the content of emails and text messages sent and received by anyone in the city and Olympic venues - including American citizens." ( Chicago Tribune)

Sydney 2000 Atlanta 1996 Barcelona 1992

"A similar trend is found in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in which the COHRE study found that, in addition to the 2,500 evictions, housing prices rose 139% for sale and 145% for rentals in the period from 1986, the year it was selected to 1993. The same period saw a 76% decrease in public housing availability. In addition, the areas surrounding the Olympic Village site witnessed the displacement of over 90% of its Roma population." ( Ceasefire Magazine)

Seoul 1988 World Cup 2026 Bid Amazon HQ2 Project

""This is a new day in New York City politics," said Sasha Wijeyeratne, executive director of Caaav: Organizing Asian Communities."They sauntered in here and said HQ2 was inevitable," she said. "Queens and New York City rose up, and we proved Amazon wrong."" ( The Guardian)

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There is a vast amount of readily available documentation of the Olympics' extensive history of DISPLACEMENT, MILITARIZATION, and EXPLOITATION. Here are some of the highlights, broken down by category. LA 1984 / LA 2028 / LA 1932 / Covid and...

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LA28
Olympic's not what it seems
Hidden undertones

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gentrification
are police needed to serve