After waiting over 12 years for someone to tell the full story of the No Games Chicago campaign, Tom Tresser decided to do it himself. “No Games Chicago: How a Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City’s 2016 Olympic Bid” is available from Routledge Press. Get more details, as well as access all sorts of …
From the New York Times, 2/28/22 – “South Korea spent at least $13 billion on the Games, with some experts projecting returns on this investment of $58 billion within 10 years. Local news outlets speculated that the Olympics could help Gangwon Province “emerge as one of the world’s major winter tourist attractions.” Yet on a recent visit …
After the COVID Games in Tokyo in 2021 (delayed by a years), we now have the Genocide Games in China.
From howmuch.net…
Professor Allen Sanderson, an economist at the University of Chicago, and a frequent contributor to local publications, has become the latest commentator to erase successful anti-Olympic protest efforts from the public record. In a July 13, 2017op-ed piece for the Chicago Tribune Prof. Sanderson opines that the Olympics may soon go the way of the …
In the summer of 2007 Bob Quellos wrote this piece for CounterPunch. This was the first in-depth critique of Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympic Games. He didn’t know it at the time, but this was the start of what would become No Games Chicago. “In May 2006, proud leaders of the City of Chicago …
The old pros at No Games Chicago have been helping the community organizers at NOlympicsLA prepare for their launch. They are out of the gate strong and connected to a host of vital community organizations! We wish them good luck in taking on the city killer aka as the modern Olympic Games.
Yahoo Sports just came out with an article “Rio’s Example – Why No City Should Bid to Host the Olympics“! Holy crap. Watch this slide show and count your lucky stars that Chicago avoided that city-killer! Rio’s example: Why no city should bid to host the Olympics There were 27 world records set at the …
From WBEZ-FM Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview program from July 19, 2016 (35 minutes):
Now famed Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Rick Telander joined the ranks of No Games Chicago with this January 1, 2016 column. Six years later. Oh well, better late than never. Just like his colleagues at the Chicago Tribune who also wrote about their relief at not getting the 2016 Olympics, Rick failed to mention the …