Displacement
#NOlympicsAnywhere: A transnational movement to stop the Olympic Games is gathering strength
Article by Cerianne Robertson, posted on PlaytheGame.org.
NOlympics Anywhere: A transnational movement to stop the Olympic Games is gathering strength
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Sun, 07/06/2020 - 18:32.
Article | Anti-Olympics groups | Displacement | Environment | Housing | IOC | Mega Events | NOlympicsLA | NON aux JO 2024 à Paris | NoOlympicsAnywhere | NoTOKYO2020 | Olympics Watch | Politics
Online Discussion - The Rise of NoOlympics and the Decline of the Olympic Machine
As part of #RadicalMay, Jules Boykoff, Shireen Ahmed, and Dave Zirin discuss the rise of anti-Olympics organizing and protests, the decline of the Olympic machine, and the future of organised sports in the era of Covid-19, following the publication of Jules Boykoff's book NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond, which is available in stock and available to order online from Fernwood Publishing
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Wed, 27/05/2020 - 23:28.
Article | Video | Corruption & Ethics | Displacement | Economics | Environment | Finance | Human Rights | IOC | Protest
Introducing OlympicsWatch
Launched in Tokyo at the "Hearing Out the Anti-Olympics Case" press conference on 23rd July 2019:
olympicswatch.org
Submitted by Steve Dowding on Wed, 24/07/2019 - 09:18.
Article | Displacement | Environment | Finance | Health | Jobs | Mega Events | People | Planning & Development | Politics | Security | Sport | Sustainability | Tourism | Transport
Mythmaking the London Olympics
Mythmaking the London Olympics and its aftermath continues. A body called the Architecture Foundation, based in far off Kensington Gore, is the latest to decide it should provide a commentary on the Olympic Park. Publicity on its Facebook site announces they will explore ‘the revolutionary new district which replaced one of the East End’s most implacable industrial wastelands’. Where precisely the revolution has taken place is anyone’s guess but even the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) has given up on the wasteland description of the land but myths live on in the architectural imagination. It makes for a much more adventurous event when you’re slumming it in the East End to be exploring a former wasteland rather than a place which was ‘a hive of activity and industrial innovation’ as the revisionists at the LLDC now describe the former industrial land on their Sweetwater page, Before the Games. No mention is made of those displaced by the event.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Tue, 10/07/2018 - 13:04.
Article | Displacement | Legacy | London 2012 | Planning & Development | Regeneration
Still no jobs legacy from the London2012 Olympics
Two years ago I asked the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) for the number of people who were working in the Olympic Park. On that occasion it replied:
Since April 2012, when the LLDC came into existence, 770 non-construction jobs were created consisting of 452 in Park operations and venues and 318 in other associated and varied roles. Additionally, 222 are currently employed at Here East
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Tue, 29/05/2018 - 16:07.
Article | 2012 Jobs | 2012 Legacy | Compulsory Purchase | Displacement | Jobs | Legacy | London 2012
Pyeongchang2018 Olympics at the heart of South Korean corruption scandal
By Julian Cheyne and Rebecca Kim - Researcher at the Democracy & Social Movement Institute, SungkongHoe University, Seoul
Against the background of the all consuming scandal which has engulfed South Korea's now deposed President Park Pyeongchang2018 looms up as the next fixture in the Olympic murk. The scandal surrounding ex-President Park Guen-hye, her confidante, Choi Soon-sil, and South Korea’s secretive companies, or chaebols, such as Samsung, Hyundai, Lotte or Hanjin, has cast a light on the shadowy interactions between the government, the secret services and the chaebols, the companies which came to dominate the South Korean economy during the dictatorship of Park’s father, Park Jung-Hee.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Mon, 27/03/2017 - 13:20.
Article | Coe | Compulsory Purchase | Corruption & Ethics | Displacement | Environment | Human Rights | IOC | Mega Events | Planning & Development | Pyeongchang 2018 | Rio de Janeiro 2016 | Sochi 2014 | Sponsors | Sport | Tokyo2020
Monier Road Bridge
So the Monier Road Bridge plot thickens! An Atkins Connectivity Survey concluded that building a bridge at Monier Road
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Wed, 01/02/2017 - 14:48.
Aftermath2012 - those sycophantic awards keep coming
http://www.londonfirstevents.co.uk/events/london-planning-awards/custom-21-1f96134fad76404a95b19ceabdf1962d.aspx
http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/node/2314 222 are currently employed at Here East
Sustainability award http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/node/1079 http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/node/771
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Thu, 08/12/2016 - 14:27.
Aftermath2012: First they came for the residents, businesses, gardeners, then they came for the artists
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Sat, 30/07/2016 - 23:26.
Article | 2012 Arts & Culture | Clays Lane | Displacement | Hackney | Legacy | Manor Gardens Allotments | Planning & Development | Tower Hamlets
Aftermath 2012 - Affordable Housing Squeeze
Additional information re Athletes Village in section []
One of the major promises of London 2012 was that it would create a large number of affordable homes for East Londoners.
In a recent Freedom of Information response to a question:
How many homes are now expected to be provided on the Olympic Park? What is the breakdown expected to be per neighbourhood?
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Tue, 07/06/2016 - 22:51.
Article | 2012 Legacy | Clays Lane | Compulsory Purchase | Housing | Legacy | London 2012 | Planning & Development | Regeneration