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No Games Book To Be Published!
After waiting over 12 years for someone to tell the full story of the No Games Chicago campaign, Tom Tresser decided to do it himself. “No Games Chicago: How a Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City’s 2016 Olympic Bid” is the working title. Look for it inthe Spring of 2024 from Routledge Press. Get more details, as well as access all sorts of materials from the campaign at the book’s website at www.nogameschicagobook.com.
Olympics Continues To Waste Billions
From the New York Times, 2/28/22 – “South Korea spent at least $13 billion on the Games, with some experts projecting returns on this investment of $58 billion within 10 years. Local news outlets speculated that the Olympics could help Gangwon Province “emerge as one of the world’s major winter tourist attractions.” Yet on a recent visit to Pyeongchang, the distance from that vision and the present reality seemed immense, with Covid-related travel restrictions worsening what had already been a lackluster start to the county’s post-Olympics life.”
Don’t say we didn’t warn you!
Why the Olympics are a “City Killer”
Check out this interview from February 4, 2022.
2022 Winter Olympics – The Genocide Games
After the COVID Games in Tokyo in 2021 (delayed by a years), we now have the Genocide Games in China.
No Games Makes It Into History
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 …