Want to Understand Cop City? Start with the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
March 8, 2023
In solidarity with the Stop Cop City movement, NOlympics LA is sharing an essay that traces the Olympic roots of Atlanta’s plan to build a
In solidarity with the Stop Cop City movement, NOlympics LA is sharing an essay that traces the Olympic roots of Atlanta’s plan to build a
You cannot support both the Olympics and the movement for Black Lives. That was the central argument put forth at the “Pick a Side Town
Dissecting the artistic legacy that belies the true narratives of LA ‘84 Sussman/Prejza is the legendary design firm co-founded by the artists Paul Prejza and
I’m squished inside our makeshift organizing headquarters in Tokyo, the largest city on the planet, with a ragtag bunch of organizers like myself who’ve never
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
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,
The following is part of a series of first hand accounts of displacement and criminalization due to Olympic-driven gentrification. The author chooses to remain anonymous.
NOlympics LA reflects on the loss of Bomber, the real life bald eagle tragically selected by the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Organizing Committee (LAOOC) to play Sam the Eagle, the official mascot of the 1984 Olympics.
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.