Category: No Games
Copenhagen Update #1
We spare no expense to update Chicago on what we’re doing! Seriously, Copenhagen has been flooded with olice, security and Secret Service agents. Everyone here is excited about Oprah, Michelle Obama or Pele. We still like to think that our presence is making a difference…
Live From Copenhagen!
No Games Chicago is in Copenhagen! The same team that went to Lausanne, Switzerland in June is now in Copenhagen. Our goal remains the same – to convince the International Olympic Committee that the 2016 Olympics for Chicago is the wrong project for the wrong city at the wrong time. We;re still raising funds to …
A Friend Sent Us This…
For No Games supporters an inspirational quote from the late great Molly Ivins: “So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through …
Open Letter to Barack Obama
An Open Letter to Barack Obama: For the good of Chicago, don’t go to Copenhagen. Dear President Obama: This summer has not been easy for many people who reside in Chicago. As the city entered into the final leg of competition for the 2016 Summer Olympics, Chicago citizens witnessed cuts in services, and city employees …
Protest the 2016 Bid on September 29!
PROTEST CHICAGO’S OLYMPIC BID TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 5:30PM at CITY HALL (121 N. LaSALLE ST.) RSVP using Facebook LET THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE KNOW THAT CHICAGOANS DO NOT WANT THE OLYMPIC GAMES. The City of Chicago currently has a $500 million budget gap. Chicago public schools are being closed and the CTA is crumbling. The …
Sportswriter for Nation Lays It Out – “No Games For Chicago!”
Watch this video where Nation magazine sports editor and columnist, Dave Zirin, lays out the history of the modern Olympics and explains why bringing the 2016 games to Chicago would be a disaster.
Nation Sports Writer: Olympics in Chicago Would Be “Obama’s Folly”
David Zirin is The Nation’s sports editor. He writes about Chicago’s bid in his September 22 column: Recently Barack Obama criticized planned protests at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh because, as he knew from his Chicago days, “focusing on concrete, local, immediate issues that have an impact on people’s lives is what really makes a …
CBS Tracks Mayor, Mrs. Daley, The President and Mrs. Obama AND No Games!
This news clip shows the amazing events of Wednesday, September 16 when Mayor Daley went to the White House with his 2016 road show and the President spoke out for the bid and announced his wife would be going to Copenhagen on October 2 to lobby the IOC. Then the clip reports on the Mayor …
We’re Looking for 300 Donors @ $30 Each!
It’s 30 days to October 2, when the IOC will vote on which city will host the 2016 Olympics! (orignally posted on September 2) No Games Chicago is seeking 300 Champions to donate at least $30 so we can sprint to the finish! 300 donors in 30 days! We can do it! Listen to No …