This book examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities. It explores and critiques the process by which cities bid for the Olympics in the current context of the International Olympic Committee’s changing bid requirements and from the social justice perspectives of Olympics opponents. Using …
You can’t make this stuff up! Rio 2016 head arrested for corruption. He had 16 gold bars worth almost $2 million! Can you imagine the corruption, waste and debt that would’ve piled up by a Chicago Olympics??
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 …
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.
After terrific organizing by No Boston Olympics the pro-bid mayor of Boston announced today that he would NOT sign the Host City Contract required of all candidate cities by the IOC. We called it “The Blank Check” because that’s what it is. No sign. No bid. Way to go, NBO!
Watch this video by No Games Swiss Delegate member Marin Macias.
The poll was taken down after two days…
Sun-Times “On The Home Front” real estate columnist Don DeBat wrote in Friday’s paper: Chicago’s $4.8 billion Olympic Games bid features details about a new neighborhood that is planned to house some 16,000 athletes and officials on the current site of Michael Reese Hospital on the Near South Side. Preliminary Olympic Village plans, drafted by …
79% of the 16,266 people who voted in the Chicago Tribune on line poll said “NO!’ to the 2016 Olympics. Cast your vote!
The Chicago Tribune released the result of a poll it commissioned saying that 75% of people surveyed do not want taxes to go support the Olympics coming to or operating in Chicago. What’s your opinion? Tribune poll: Support for Chicago Olympics tempered by opposition to using taxes for Games – Over 100 comments! In a …