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Zócalo asks, "Can we build a better Summer Olympics?"
Welcome to the mega-thread of *reasons why the Olympics should immediately fuck off forever* https://twitter.com/ThePublicSquare/status/1271587145220669440
Welcome to the mega-thread of *reasons why the Olympics should immediately fuck off forever* https://twitter.com/ThePublicSquare/status/1271587145220669440
"The six Summer Olympics held between the 1988 Seoul Games and the 2008 Beijing Games forcibly evicted or otherwise displaced more than 2 million people." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/olympics-poor-rio-atlanta_n_57aa27a2e4b0db3be07bde67
"But (Garcetti) ignores the dark side of the Games: how they helped to militarize the LAPD, bolstered its ability to wage a war on crime that lasted well into the 1990s, and accelerated the mass arrest and incarceration of African American men." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/08/06/the-1984-olympics-fueled-l-a-s-war-on-crime-will-the-2028-games-do-the-same/
"As Gates said blithely, “I think that people believe that the only [policing] strategy is to harass people and make arrests for inconsequential types of things. Well that’s part of our strategy, no doubt about it.”" https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/want-understand-1992-la-riots-start-1984-la-olympics/
"Kilic says that the project relied on high numbers of illegals and deaths were in the hundreds during her time there. "I would always hear: 'this worker died today on this site'...'somebody fell again'.... 'Something collapsed on a worker.'" https://www.rferl.org/a/ghosts-of-sochi-olympics-migrant-deaths/26779493.html
“One Sunday morning a chainsaw came and devastated everything including century-old trees,” Almeida said. “I regard the ground as sacred because it is where my ancestors were buried.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/21/olympics-media-village-sacred-grave-african-slaves-rio-games
"Olympic Games have led to the increased marginalisation (and even criminalisation) of homeless people. In the lead-up to the Atlanta Olympics, over 9,000 arrest citations were issued to homeless persons, mostly African-Americans." https://placesjournal.org/article/the-displacement-decathlon/
"When Mariza returned from the doctor, a bulldozer had razed the house to the ground. Her clothes, her furniture, even the money she had saved and placed under her bed, had all disappeared."
https://www.rioonwatch.org/?p=25558
https://www.rioonwatch.org/?p=25558
"A total of 22,059 families have been removed in the city of Rio de Janeiro, amounting to 77,206 people, between 2009 and 2015, according to data presented by Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall in July 2015."
http://www.childrenwin.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/DossieComiteRio2015_ENG_web_ok_low.pdf
http://www.childrenwin.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/DossieComiteRio2015_ENG_web_ok_low.pdf
"Our community was shattered. It fell apart very rapidly once this started, as people were concerned about finding a place to go." https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/jun/02/olympics2012
"At no time did President Franklin D. Roosevelt become involved in the boycott issue, despite warnings from high-level American diplomats regarding Nazi exploitation of the Olympics for propaganda."
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-nazi-olympics-august-1936
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-nazi-olympics-august-1936
"The city that described itself as “too busy to hate” is blatantly the city too greedy to care. And that is the memory that haunts poor and homeless Atlantans and renews their nightmare daily."
http://www.ruig-gian.org/ressources/Atlanta_background_paper.pdf
http://www.ruig-gian.org/ressources/Atlanta_background_paper.pdf
"Joo says that many residents — primarily small farmers — were permanently displaced due to the Olympics preparations, while others were merely forced to sell parts of their land to the government at below-market rates." https://archive.thinkprogress.org/pyeongchang-2018-let-the-games-destruction-and-debt-begin-bc0e545e5747/
“The construction of the Olympic Park and stadium showed me a level of organised corruption, theft, mediocrity, sabotage and indifference that I had never witnessed before and have never witnessed since.“ https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jul/06/40-year-hangover-1976-olympic-games-broke-montreal-canada
"In the Athens suburb of Aspropyrgos, the town mayor, backed by local police and a bulldozer, ordered that a cluster of Roma huts be cleared and the occupants relocated so that the land could be used to build Olympic housing facilities." https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/roma-displaced-athens-2004-olympics-preparation
The Olympics destroys communities, criminalizes the homeless, aides in the militarization of the police, encourages corruption, enacts modern-day slavery, harms the environment, and displaces millions of people.
Simply put, the Olympics kills.
#NOlympicsLA #NOlympicsAnywhere
Simply put, the Olympics kills.
#NOlympicsLA #NOlympicsAnywhere
