Let’s talk about human abuse machine Casey Wasserman << Huge Trigger Warning: this is an inventory of one man’s participation in and relationship to hardcore
With billions of dollars at stake—and Los Angeles taxpayers ultimately on the hook—corporate sponsorships could make or break LA28’s entire city budget for years to
Olympic Reform Efforts Are Setting Us Up for a Double Disaster The Olympics have always been sold as temporary — a two-week spectacle of worldwide
How The Olympics and World Cup Help Fuel Israeli War Crimes in Palestine Olympic security and surveillance are big business and that business is also
Law enforcement’s use of stadiums to terrorize the working class is nothing new Dodger Stadium (an LA28 Olympic venue) made national headlines last month when
No one thinks this is a good idea. Last week LA City Council heard from a room full of residents and organizations — such as
It’s time to rebuild our communities and burn down the LA28 Olympics As Los Angeles continues to smolder and local communities scramble to perform triage,
Reality check: Hosting the Olympics is an Abomination We have been calling for the 2028 Olympics to be canceled since Los Angeles was awarded the
See our full “How to Report on the Olympics: From Paris 2024 to LA 2028” guide here! What you need to know to report on
If you answered former US Military, ex-CIA, and ex-DHS, you win! Earlier this month the LA28 Olympic committee hired some guy called Reynold Hoover to
Pending confirmation by the City Council, Mayor Karen Bass has appointed Renata Simril to the Board of Recreation and Parks Commissioners. Here’s why City Council
Chris Thompson has spent the last two years lobbying the federal, state, and local government to grease the wheels for the land-grabbing, profit-squeezing, police-budget-inflating machine
In May, NOlympics LA joined anti-Olympics groups from around the world in Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis, France, for our second transnational anti-Olympics gathering. Paris is slated
Another day, another opportunity for supercharged displacement driver Airbnb to belittle poor and working class residents in touristy cities. This time around, they’ve locked in
It’s that time of year again. Elites hoping to boost their careers and fatten their wallets have teamed up to bring us yet another Super
Two years and three months behind schedule, the City of Los Angeles and LA28 have finally published the elusive “Games Agreement,” defining how the City
The LA28 Olympic Games Agreement is coming very soon to City Hall Here’s what you need to know: What is the Games Agreement? The Games
We’re deep into 2021 and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are finally over, and it is time to assess the damage done to the host city
By Samikchhya Bhusal Executive Summary Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) emerged in the late 1990s as tools for communities to mitigate the impact of developments through
A group of people in Aubervilliers, near Paris, are occupying the city’s workers’ gardens to protest and prevent their conversion into an Olympics-sized swimming pool,
Boycotting Beijing (And Only Beijing) is a Disingenuous Trap
Breakdown of an Ill-Timed Olympic Content Dump Last week the millionaires and billionaires at the LA 2028 Olympic Organizing Committee unveiled a long-hyped brand roll
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, more people have been paying closer attention to how rules, laws, and regulations get enforced and what that
For much of its existence, the International Olympic Committee has claimed that sports cannot be political. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) argues that sports and
For the residents of Los Angeles, the uprising that began on April 29, 1992 was a long time coming. When a majority-white jury acquitted four
On Tuesday, the IOC and Tokyo 2020 announced the postponement of the 2020 Olympics to 2021 due to Covid-19. Holding the Olympics this summer would
As the world struggles to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all witnessing the effects of governmental failures in real time. On March 8th, the
Trump, Sarah Hirshland (who took over for the disgraced Scott Blackmun), and Casey Wasserman The racist slumlord represents everything we’re fighting against Donald Trump is
What you need to know to report on the Olympics responsibly The Olympics catalyze and intensify a myriad of issues: gentrification and displacement, police militarization,
How LA2028’s National Special Security Event will usher in a decade of terror for immigrants and People of Color In the next decade, Los Angeles
Who Wins & Who Loses When Airbnb and the IOC team up? In November, the Olympics and Airbnb announced a nine-year partnership, sounding the alarm
How Fernando Guerra and StudyLA Launder Garcetti’s Narratives at LMU In late October, Loyola Marymount University hosted a fireside chat between Fernando Guerra, director of
On Monday the International Olympic Committee and Italian ruling class interests decided in an unusual turn that Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo are slated to host
We all know that companies like Amazon and Facebook cheat their way out of paying federal income taxes, but did you know the IOC and other Olympics-boosting groups have been in the game of tax dodging since before these tech titans were born?
The evidence suggests that the arguments made for why Nicolás Maduro should not be in power apply at least as strongly to those who rule Los Angeles. It’s time to seriously examine the question that our depleted press corps refuses to: is Eric Garcetti’s mayorship illegitimate?
We went to the LA84 Foundation Summit on “Athlete Activism and Social Justice” this month. Here’s what we found.
We conducted an independent survey of Californians on the 2028 Olympics. The results paint a very different picture than the one claimed by boosters and reflect a reality much closer to what we’ve observed from talking to actual Angelenos.
When we conducted our recent survey on the 2028 Olympics, we gave respondents a chance to share their thoughts in their own words.
There are 5 especially pervasive myths about the Olympics in LA. In order to truly understand the negative consequences of LA 2028, we must unpack them to discover what is truly being sold to us.
Real Estate Speculation Firm or Social Justice Group?
Believe it or not, the city of LA has promised one billion dollars in tax incentives to hotel developers over the next 20 years through a
The idea that cities must be “clean” in order to be attractive and progressive is clearly coded. What makes a city “clean”? What makes a city “dirty”? And who decides what that looks like?
No, but here are some concrete ways in which LA could become an actual sanctuary city.