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
PRESS RELEASE By Saccage 2024 April 28 2022 Saccage 2024 is a collective of residents, collectives and associations in Seine-Saint-Denis and nearby who defend their
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 Olympics Kill The Poor. They accelerate inequality, policing, and displacement everywhere. Tokyo, Beijing, Paris, Milan, Cortina, Los Angeles, and beyond. Their existence is deadly,
On March 25, 2021, the Olympic torch relay starts at J-Village in Fukushima, where the Great East Japan Earthquake hit and Daiichi Nuclear Plant failed
Shocking no one, Jose Huizar has finally been arrested on a federal charge of racketeering. The arrest, which took place in the Councilmember’s Boyle Heights
We cannot make our way towards a new world along the misguided path of the old one. We must reject the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
STOP PLAYING GAMES In the last few weeks, we have witnessed the ruling class scramble to respond to the escalating global pandemic and cling to
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
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
The specifics may differ in scope and scale, but the broad forces that the Olympics unleash wherever they take root are the same: the expansion of police and military surveillance, rampant corruption, crippling financial waste, environmental degradation, mass displacement, and the trampling of individual rights.
The 2019 Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) numbers were supposed to be delivered by the end of May, but it’s May 30 and we
Mike “Mudd” Thorpe, 63, has been homeless in Los Angeles for 5 years. He is a descendant of Jim Thorpe, the first Native American athlete
A few thoughts on what may be the saddest presidential campaign of all time.
In the last year, the world of elite sports has been repeatedly rocked by revelations from athletes who have come forward with allegations of abuse and misconduct at the hands of coaches and other powerful authority figures.
This Saturday morning Los Angeles’s occasional mayor, Eric Garcetti, was rudely awoken by a contingent of DSA Los Angeles members who were — and still
We’re republishing this analysis of the proposed Koreatown shelters by our partners at LA CAN who have fiercely followed this issue and the issues of shelters and criminalization for decades.
Earlier this year, DSA-LA hosted an interactive forum on police and prison abolition with Alex S. Vitale, author of the new book The End of Policing, who offered us his perspective on the Olympic Games.
Los Angeles County is releasing their estimate of the number of residents that are unhoused. We at the Democratic Socialists of America, Los Angeles believe that this number is absolutely unconscionable – it should be zero.
The proposed hotel project at 3900 Figueroa proves that the 2028 Olympics are already being used as an excuse to drive displacement of low-income and rent-burdened tenants in LA and divert civic resources.
As the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang are set to open later this week despite dire environmental concerns and existential threats to residents near Games sites damaging what’s left of the IOC’s credibility among other dubious organizational concerns, we at NOlympics LA stand with you, our No Tokyo and No Pyeongchang comrades.
Dear Mayor Garcia and Long Beach City Council Members, We write to you as residents of the City of Long Beach who are opposed to
The prospect of Los Angeles hosting World Cup matches in 2026 is not surprising, but it presents another huge problem. The World Cup bid is an obvious attempt to replicate the scenario in Rio, where the World Cup was a smaller scale test before the Olympics. Now, our local elected politicians will likely try to make that happen in Los Angeles without asking the difficult questions.
NOlympics LA stands in solidarity with the people in Tokyo, Paris, and Pyeongchang as they fight back against the greedy thieves of the IOC.