No Games Refutes Absurd 2016 Bid Ratings
No Games went on NBC News to refute the claim by aroundtherings.com that Chicago’s bid for the 2016 is on top.
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Tour Shows Off Parks and Venue Sites To Be Destroyed
As part of the “Great Chicago Places & Spaces” events of last week, Chicago 2016 and the Chicago Architecture Foundation sponsored a bus tour showing off the sites in our public parks and other sites that will be appropriated, ripped up and given to the 2016 games. We sent along a No Games organizer to …
Sign Our New Online Petition – President Obama, Stay Home!
President Obama has pledged his support for the 2016 bid. Sign our new online petition urging trhe President NOT to support Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics and to stay home when the IOC votes in Copenhagen in October.
White House “Ethics Waiver” Allows Jarrett to Lobby for Olympics
Jake Tapper is ABC News senior White House correspondent. He broke this story on his blog: On Friday night, the White House posted on its website a special ethics waiver allowing senior adviser Valerie Jarrett to lead the White House’s efforts to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago. Jarrett had previously served as Vice Chair …
Defender Reports IOC Listening to 2016 Protesters
Wendell Hutson writes in Wednesday’s Chicago Defender that the IOC Evaluation Commission has takens note of No Games’s objections to holding the 2016 Olympics in Chicago. After meeting with protest groups while visiting Chicago last week, members of the International Olympic Committee’s Evaluation Commission said they are concerned about possible displacement should Chicago win the …
No Games Meets With IOC!
Members of No Games Chicago met today at the Fairmont Hotel with six representatives of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday afternnon. Following a number of actions aimed at pressuring the IOC to take note of community disapproval of the bid, the thirty minute meeting occurred on the last day of the IOC’s review …
First “No Games” Forum Draws Over 200!
No Games Chicago went public on January 31 with a public forum at the University of Chicago. Over 200 people packed the room to a hear an amazing panel of speakers. Panel members were: Deborah Taylor of Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP) and Lake Park East Tenants Association, Karen Lewis of the Caucus of …