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Airbnb is taking over our cities. Short-term vacation rentals and apartment hotels take important housing stock off the market, often rent-stabilized units and lower-cost units that poor and working class families can afford. Think this should be illegal? It is. Learn more about Locks on My Block.

NOlympics LA presents the Pick A Side Town Hall featuring Melina Abdullah (Black Lives Matter LA) and Hamid Khan (Stop LAPD Spying Coalition). There is not a version of the Olympics without massive policing, surveillance, gentrification and displacement. Being neutral is not an option.

NOlympics LA visits Tokyo for the first ever anti-Olympic Summit in July 2019, where representatives from countries around the world came to share their experiences fighting the Olympics and global sports capital.

Airbnb and the Olympics are both designed to harm tenants around the world. Last year, the IOC announced a ten year partnership with Airbnb, which would extend through LA28. Together, Airbnb and the Olympics a force multiplier of gentrification and displacement.

Broken pipes. Flooded floors. Mounds of mold. So many ants and spiders.

Dolores Hernandez listed off the issues she has encountered in her apartment over the past few months.

Donald Trump joined LA28 chair Casey Wasserman along with Steve Mnuchin, Lindsey Graham, Chad Wolf (Department of Homeland Security), and Sarah Hirschland (United States Olympic Committee) to threaten immigrants and the unhoused.

John Early and Kate Berlant chat with tenants about their ongoing rent strike. Taken from the Helltrap x NOlympics LA Food Not Rent Fundraiser on November 13, 2020. The full fundraiser can be streamed here.

What the #LA28 Olympic experience is really all about. Learn more.

Documentaries

Just because the Olympics and the World Cup are examples of corrupt capitalism, that doesn’t mean ethical sporting events aren’t possible. NOlympics LA presents a brief history of swolecialism – where sports and socialism meet.

The LA 2028 Organizing Committee that another Olympics will be good for the city of LA. But, unfortunately, their argument rests on some shaky myths about Los Angeles and its relationship to the Olympics.

October marks the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City – the first Olympics held in Latin America. On October 2nd, we remembered the 50th anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre and the unknown number of lives lost in one of the darkest events in modern Mexican history, one that is indelibly linked to the 1968 Olympic Games and stands as a solemn reminder of why we continue to fight against the Olympics today.

The security for the 84 Games was, at the time, the largest imposed on a peacetime enterprise in the U.S., resulting in a blatantly militaristic police presence throughout LA.

Since September 2017, DSA-LA has been observing so-called “cleanups” across Los Angeles. These expensive sweeps actively harm and dehumanize unhoused individuals, violently disrupting their lives and criminalizing their existence. Police show up in numbers to intimidate and threaten the unhoused with arrest if they don’t vacate the “clean up zone” — and what does the Mayor have to say about this? “Criminal acts are criminal acts.” This is the reality of Eric Garcetti’s Los Angeles.

LA2024 and Eric Garcetti want to pretend like LA is all sunsets and movie stars soundtracked by Arcade Fire. It’s not. We’ve got civic crises to spare, and hosting the Olympics will only exacerbate them.

The Olympics is a truly international event — but not in a good way. Watch us break down how the Games have affected cities across the globe — from Mexico City in 1968 to Rio in 2016 — and celebrate the activists and organizers the IOC has inadvertently brought together.

Most people know almost nothing about the International Olympic Committee – or IOC – despite the fact that their decisions have the power to leave cities reeling for years after the Games end. Let’s get to know them.

When sports and capitalism intersect, the result is always exploitation, with most American athletes paid less than a living wage for their lifelong commitment. This is our salute to them.

Actions & Events

LA CAN and NOlympics LA joined forces on March 24, 2018 for the Ride for Justice (Skidrowvia), a bike ride and film screening illustrating what bike lanes, homelessness, mega-sports, and displacement have to do with each other in the new, reimagined downtown Los Angeles.

On June 31, 2018, at 6:45am, members of NOlympics LA and the Housing & Homelessness Committee of DSA-LA paid a visit to Mayor Eric Garcetti.

This teaser for our Disasterpiece Theater event on March 24, 2018 features clips from three short films produced by Brazilian artists and activists during the lead-up to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio: “Vila Autódromo Persiste,” “Contagem Regressiva: Remoções,” and a performance by Igor Vidor.

On August 15, NOlympics LA and our coalition partners invited the LA Olympic bid committee and community members alike to discuss how an LA Olympics will exacerbate the many crises facing the city and divert resources from their potential solutions.

Mayor Auditions

If you need the mayor this week, he’s out of town. He’s always out of town. We need a real mayor, not a mascot.

Are you good at making empty promises? We’re still casting Angelenos to replace our absentee mayor Eric Garcetti.

Since our absentee mayor Eric Garcetti took office: homelessness has increased, the LAPD remains the deadliest police force in the country, and City Hall has manufactured a “hotel shortage crisis” to evict tenants and build luxury hotels. We have a lot of critiques of Eric’s failed mayoral tenure, but we’ll just let some of the new Erics tell you about them.

Like Hollywood, Eric Garcetti is out of ideas, so he wants to reboot the 1984 Olympics. If you’ve been following us, you know the 84 Games helped rip a city apart and magnify inequalities in its most turbulent decade.