Podcasts about nolympics la

On today's episode, Johanna and Derek are joined by NOlympics LA coalition member and community organizer Jonny Coleman to talk about the LA28 Olympic bid, the powerful people behind the Games, the harms associated with LA28, and how the Olympics may be quite far beyond any possibility of reform. Jonny Coleman is a writer and organizer based in Los Angeles and a member of the NOlympics LA coalition, which was launched in 2017 by the Housing and Homelessness Committee of the LA Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. The Coalition has since expanded to include over two dozen partner organizations based in LA and California, as well as a growing transnational movement with dozens of groups around the world. Jonny has published widely on the harms associated with the Olympics in Jacobin Magazine, Knock LA, The Nation, The Appeal, Deadspin, Slate, and many others. Follow NOlympics LA on Twitter!   The piece mentioned by Gia Lappe and Jonny in Jacobin can be found here “Abolish the Olympics.” Check out our episode on the Tokyo 2020 games with Jules Boykoff here “Buying Unicorns with Dogecoin.” For a transcription of this episode, please click here. (Updated semi-regularly Credit @punkademic) Research Assistance for The End of Sport provided by Abigail Bomba. _________________________________________________________________________ If you are interested you can support the show via our Patreon. As always, please like, share, and rate us on your favorite podcast app, and give follow us on Twitter or Instagram. www.TheEndofSport.com

We welcome Anne and Jonny from NOlympics LA to talk about how much they hate the Olympics First NOlympics episode here: patreon.com/posts/episode-6-29250584

Abolish the Olympics? Gia Lappe, an organizer with NOlympics LA, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss the problematic history of the Olympics, what the games do to its host countries, this year's Tokyo games and the pandemic, and the NOlympics LA movement. Also a BONUS for freebie listeners, Matt's investigation into how a bizarre lie about AOC owning a bar spread online from the patron half of the show. Also on the patron half of the show: police officers dying "in the line of duty"...from COVID, a major March for Medicare For All supporter...doesn't support Medicare for All, callers talk crypto (including a Mt. Gox experience!), plus even more callers, your questions, comments, and more! Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

It was a jam packed fun fest with in-studio guest comedian Lizzy Cooperman (and her keyboard), plus tv creator Steve Conrad (Patriot, Ultra City Smiths), and Jules Boykoff & Molly Lambert (NOlympics LA) zooming in to tell us why the Olympics are a bunch of of junk! Watch video of today's show + After Hours RIGHT NOW, get the AD FREE mega podcast including After Hours and much more at patreon.com/officehourslive. Support NOlympics LA by following them on Twitter or Instagram at @nolympicsla. SoCal friends: see Office Hours Live LIVE at Dynasty Typewriter in LA on August 24th. Get tickets before they sell out at bit.ly/ohl-aug-24-la-early.

Air Date 7/13/2021 Today we take a look at the costs of the Olympic Games including financial, ethical, moral and social. Private profits come at the hands of public investment, disruption of communities, curtailing of rights and, this year, extensive health risks.  Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com  Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content) BestOfTheLeft.com/Refer Sign up, share widely, get rewards. It's that easy! OUR AFFILIATE LINKS: BestOfTheLeft.com/Descript CHECK OUT OUR FANCY PRODUCTION SOFTWARE! BestOfTheLeft.com/Blinkist GET KEY INSIGHTS FROM THOUSANDS OF BOOKS! BestOfTheLeft.com/Bookshop BotL BOOKSTORE BestOfTheLeft.com/Store BotL MERCHANDISE! BestOfTheLeft.com/Advertise Sponsor the show! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: How The Olympics Became So Expensive For Host Cities - CNBC - Air Date 6-21-21 Cities incurring overrun costs when hosting the Olympics is not just unique to just Rio; according to the Council on Foreign Relations, since 1960, every Olympics saw high overrun costs. As overrun costs become a growing concern, several cities withdrew Ch. 2: The 2020* Olympics - Today, Explained - Air Date 5-18-21 *Are being held this summer in Tokyo. And it's a mess. Ch. 3: Lotteryism, Part II - A Most Dangerous Game, How Sports Are Used to Fleece Public Trusts - Citations Needed - Air Date 12-20-17 It's a scam to extract resources from local governments in hopes they can "win" corporate cash, headquarters, facilities, and, of course, the promise of "jobs". Cities around the world debase themselves to compete for the "honor" of hosting the Olmpics. Ch. 4: The 2021 Olympics is a Moral Hazard w/ Jules Boykoff - The Majority Report with Sam Seder - Air Date 6-28-21 Jules Boykoff, Pacific University professor of politics and government, former US Olympian and author of NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Beyond, discusses the Olympics industrial complex. Ch. 5: Sha'Carri Richardson's Suspension for Marijuana Defies Common Sense - Time's Top Stories - Air Date 7-2-21 In a development that shocked and saddened fans of track and field, and the Olympics, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced Friday morning that Richardson had accepted a one-month suspension after testing positive for cannabis. Ch. 6: Sha'Carri Richardson left off relay team, won't compete in Olympics - All In with Chris Hayes - Air Date 7-6-21 Runner Sha'Carri Richardson was not named to the U.S. relay team and will officially not compete in the Tokyo Olympics following her positive test result for marijuana. Ch. 7: Olympic Athletes Not Allowed To Protest - TYT Sports - Air Date 4-30-21 Athletes are being warned about protesting at the 2021 Olympics. Rick Strom breaks it down. Ch. 8: Anne Orchier of NOlympics LA on Tokyo 2020 Olympic Opposition - Burn It All Down - Air Date 7-8-21 Lindsay Gibbs interviews Anne Orchier of NOlympics LA about opposition to the Toyko 2020 Olympics from on-the-ground organizers in Japan, which is largely led by unhoused people and those who will be displaced by the games. MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S) Ch. 9: Olympic racism is being exposed - By Any Means Necessary - Air Date 7-6-21 The racist and transphobic history behind disqualification of Olympic women runners due to “naturally high testosterone” levels, as Nambian sprinters Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi are kept from competing in the Tokyo Olympics. VOICEMAILS Ch. 10: Names - Alyson from Boulder, CO FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 11: Final comments on why we all, including Sha'Carri Richardson, are victims of White Supremacy Bonus: The Racist Origins of Marijuana Prohibition - Business Insider - Air Date 3-1-18 How did marijuana become illegal in the first place? As it turns out, it has some roots in racist rhetoric pushed by politicians and the media in the 1930s, when it first became illegal. MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Activism Music: This Fickle World by Theo Bard (https://theobard.bandcamp.com/track/this-fickle-world) Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Listen Anywhere! BestOfTheLeft.com/Listen Listen Anywhere! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com

In this episode Lindsay Gibbs interviews Anne Orchier of NOlympics LA about opposition to the Toyko 2020 Olympics from on-the-ground organizers in Japan, which is largely led by unhoused people and those who will be displaced by the games. The discuss the privatization of public spaces and the aggressive policing of poor communities that happens regardless of where the Olympics are held, and how COVID-19 is heightening these trends. They also talk about the latest updates on pushback to LA's 2028 Olympic Bid. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Support the show by subscribing here: http://sesh.plus | http://patreon.com/strugglesession | http://strugglesession.substack.com Molly and Jonny of NOlympics LA (https://nolympicsla.com/) joins Leslie to discuss the already disastrous Tokyo games and why the Olympics is the worst thing that can happen to your city. Check out Molly's Patreon https://www.patreon.com/mollyssleazyfriends Intro Theme: Brendan James - Theme from "Struggle Session" Tune: The Novembers - Romance ★ Support this podcast ★ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a week off, Miguel shares Part 1 of his Cancel the Olympics series this week. In Part 1 of the series, Miguel spoke to Eric and Taylor, 2 members of NOlympics Los Angeles, "launched by the Housing & Homelessness Committee of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America in 2017. The coalition has since expanded to include over two dozen partner organizations based in Los Angeles and California, as well as a growing transnational movement with dozens of groups around the world (https://nolympicsla.com/about/)." Follow them on Twitter: @NOlympicsLA.  First, Eric and Taylor explained how Los Angeles won the 2028 Olympics instead of the 2024 Olympics and broke down who the prominent stakeholders were that made sure Los Angeles hosted the 2028 games. Also, Miguel, Eric, and Taylor discuss the legacy of the 1984 Olympics and its impact on Black and Brown people, the working-class, and the poor.   In particular, Eric and Taylor explain how LAPD Chief Daryl Gates conducted gang sweeps via Operation Hammer before the 1984 games. They also speak about next month's Summer Olympics Games in Tokyo and the work the comrades in Japan have done to fight the capitalist Olympic machine, plus more! Lastly, Miguel gives you his Molotov MVP for episode 21, Las Vegas Raiders Defensive End Carl Nassib, who last week was the first active NFL player to come out as openly gay. He ends the podcast with a different approach to his Chicana/o Sports History segment. On Saturday, June 19, 2021, a video went viral on social media of an ugly, racist ending to a CIF San Diego Section championship High School Boys basketball game between Coronado High School and Orange Glen High school. It is important to note that Coronado High School is predominately white and from an affluent area of San Diego, and Orange Gen High school is predominantly Mexican and from a working-class San Diego area city, Escondido. After Coronado's buzzer-beating three-pointer in overtime to beat Orange Glen 60-57, players and fans associated with Coronado started hurling corn tortillas towards Orange Glen players and coaches. Orange Glen players, coaches, and fans were outraged and called the incident racist. As a result, a Press conference was held on Tuesday, June 22, 2021, by players, parents, coaches, and Orange Glen High School supporters, condemning this racist act, and the Head Boys Basketball Coach of Coronado High School was fired. Miguel Garcia produced this episode. Be sure to listen/subscribe to the Sports As A Weapon Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Deezer, and more! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and FacebookLinks:Want to Understand the 1992 LA Riots? Start with the 1984 LA Olympics (Dave Zirin 2017)| The 1984 Olympics & the 1992 LA Riots (NOlympics LA) Rings of Hell: The NOlympics Podcast (NOlympics LA) What is a National Special Security Event? (NOlympics LA) Carl Nassib draws support on social media after coming out as gay (LA Times)Orange Glen HS supporters rally following tortilla incident (ABC 10 News San Diego) CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GAME RACIST TORTILLA TOSS!!! (YouTube)

Naomi Karavani hosts this VIP special. Anders Lee interviews Gigi Droesch, who organizes with NOlympics LA. The Olympics has historically had a negative impact on the poor in the communities it comes to. With an LA Olympics planned for 2028, Droesch and her cohort of organizers hope to shine a light on that history and convince the city of LA not to go through with hosting the event. Naomi Karavani reports on the British lawsuit that would force Uber to treat its drivers like employees. Uber’s response to this lawsuit was to threaten to stop operating anywhere that wants them to give the people who make money for their app the basic respect workers deserve. Karavani also reports on the corporate response to people not wanting to work in their low-paying industries. The rich are shocked that they’re finding it hard to pay poverty wages for terrible jobs. Natalie McGill looks into how Big Tech is plotting to defang privacy bills introduced across the nation after California passed one last year.

Episode 3: “Rings of Hell III: The Movement Against The IOC” -- This week @nolympicsla explore Olympic resistance in both a city that was ravaged by the Games (Rio 2016) and a city that thwarted an Olympic bid (Boston 2024). Despite some local differences, the fight is against the same notoriously corrupt and unaccountable private institution: the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which creates heightened militarization, displacement, and authoritarianism in the name of extracting profit. The struggle against this form of neoliberal lotteryism is both a hyper-local and transnational one. Please enjoy a conversation with members of Rio on Watch, No Boston Olympics, and NOlympics LA. ‘Rings of Hell’ segment originally produced with @knockdotla: 10/16/18

The NOlympics LA working group joins Andrew to talk about NOlympics LA, organizing collectively, and much more. As always, leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

In the second installment with our conversation with Albert Corado we dive into his work with NOlympics LA and dive into the dark and demonstrative world of the Olympics, it's charter, the IOC, and the unspoken ripple effects the games have on communities and athletes. Follow NOlympics LA on Twitter and IG: @NOlympicsLA Get involved here: https://nolympicsla.com/ You can find more info on Albert's campaign for LA City Council here: https://www.alforla.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NOlympics LA seeks to stop the 2028 Olympics and the harm that it accelerates: displacement, militarization, and the erosion of democracy.This interview is with two NOlympics LA organizers, Albert Corado and Kendall Kaufman. https://nolympicsla.com Follow on Instagram: @nolympicsla Follow on Twitter: @NOlympicsLA Albert Corado is an LA native who started organizing after his sister, Mely, was shot and killed by LAPD at the Trader Joe's in Silverlake, California. He found his way to NOlympics through his outreach to the unhoused.. Around the start of pandemic, he and some friends started another organization called People's City Council, which messages around rent cancellation and defunding of the police. Follow on Instagram: @digitalash @peoplescitycouncil Follow on Twitter: @PplsCityCouncil Kendall Kaufman graduated in June from UCLA with a Bachelor's in Civil Engineering and Urban & Regional Studies. She was involved with the UCLA triathlon team all four years of college and was the External Vice President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers chapter at UCLA, as well as the Safe Parking Initiative on campus. She now organizes with Ground Game LA and NOlympics LA and is on two committees with the North Westwood Neighborhood Council (Transportation & Safety and Community Health & Homelessness). Follow on Instagram: @kendandelion Follow on Twitter: @kendandelion Discussed in this episode: LATimes Article on Albert's sister, Mely's murder and unjust aftermath Connection between Olympics and increased brutality of LAPD Organizing as a learning environment Olympics as multiplier of harm: displacement, militarization, and the erosion of democracy Athlete A film The Weight of Gold film Anne Orchier of NOlympics on the Burn it All Down podcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/socialsport/support

Albert Corado (an organizer w/ NOlympics LA, People's City Council - Los Angeles, Ground Game LA) & I discuss finding his calling, NOlympics LA, organizing during Covid & the music of Conor Oberst. On Twitter: @digitalurn @NOlympicsLA @PplsCityCouncil @GroundGameLA

We check back in on NOlympics LA with new comrade Gigi Droesch and old friend Collin Lapinsky. Gonna put the first 50-ep archive on the Galaxy Brain feed in the coming weeks, including the original NOlympics ep, so subscribe to get it all!: www.patreon.com/thenewsneverends Info about the teach-in series on the OlympicsWatch blog https://olympicswatch.org/2020/06/09/tokyo-teach-in-criminalization-unhoused/ Jules Boykoff: NOlympians https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/nolympians Garcetti wears a Daily Show shirt on the Daily Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbY9pg-OmNQ Theme song credit: "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This week we're joined by Molly Lambert and Jonny Coleman of NOlympics LA to discuss California real estate billionaire Rick Caruso and the upcoming 2028 LA Olympics. We review the shady history of the games, the role of Epstein connected LA power broker Casey Wasserman in bringing them to the city, and the devastating impact of the 1984 Olympics on LA. The 2028 games will continue their proud tradition of allowing a small number of super wealthy people to put their hands in the public's pockets and screw over low income locals in the process. Unless we stop them. You can learn more and get involved at: https://nolympicsla.com/ You can listen to Molly Lambert's podcast Night Call here: https://podtail.com/podcast/night-call/

A day-by-day recap of another stunning week in LA. Plus, guest SPIKE FRIEDMAN, an organizer with NOlympics LA, joins the show to talk about the current state of the LA Olympics and the impacts the event could have on policing, homelessness, transit, and more.

This week, Shireen, Lindsay, and Brenda dig into the history of NASCAR and the decision to ban the Confederate flag from future races [6:18]. After that, Lindsay interviews NOLympics LA organizers Molly Lambert, and Anne Orchier about the movement to abolish the Olympics [25:30]. Finally, they discuss the return of women's sports [46:31]. Of course, you’ll hear the Burn Pile [57:24], the Bad Ass Woman of the Week segment, starring Natasha Cloud [1:06:37], and what is good in our worlds [1:08:46]. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: teespring.com/stores/burn-it-all-down Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/

Yasha Levine is an investigative journalist and the author of Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet (PublicAffairs, 2018). We spoke recently about the response to COVID-19 in the city of Los Angeles, where he currently lives. Since it's Yasha, the conversation quickly turned to surveillance and empire and the fact that the systemic collapse of the USA (ca. 2020) is largely the result of the chickens coming home to roost — as web 2.0 influencer Ward Churchill might say. After taping that call I decided to expand the discussion a bit by bringing on Anne Orchier, an organizer with NOlympics LA, about why the Olympics is bad news and how Los Angeles is, much like the rest of the country, experiencing "disaster capitalism" run amok. FAILED STATE UPDATE (the newsletter): https://lennyflatley.substack.com/ NOlympics LA on the web: https://nolympicsla.com/ NOlympics LA Twitter: https://twitter.com/NOlympicsLA NOlympics LA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nolympicsla/ Yasha Levine on the web: http://yashalevine.com/ Yasha Levine Twitter: https://twitter.com/yashalevine Yasha's newsletter, Immigrants as a Weapon: https://yasha.substack.com/ Joseph L. Flatley website: https://www.lennyflatley.net/ Joseph L. Flatley twitter: https://twitter.com/lennyflatley Music: "We Care A Lot" by Faith No More "Chariots of Fire" by Vangelis "Join the Chant" by Nitzer Ebb "To Live and Die in L.A." by Wang Chung --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/failedstateupdate/message

Our friend Anne of Valley Video and NOlympics LA joins us to analyze what we consider to be THE definitive contemporary Christian movie. The one that inspired us to start this podcast. Kevin Sorbo stars as a celebrity atheist author whose near death experience changes his spiritual perspective. The supporting cast is star-studded too - Sean Hannity appears, country legend Travis Tritt is in the mix, reformed former mob boss Michael Franzese plays "Pastor Vinny", and Sorbo's wife Sam and his two kids figure prominently. We went extra long on this one so we could talk about everything. We hope you enjoy! Please excuse our sound quality on this one as the quarantine caught us off guard. All of us have our own mic setups at home now and will be free of sin in future episodes.  Check out Anne's fantastic screening series Valley Video, and look for a livestream show soon! http://valley.video/ Also check out Anne's organization NOlympics LA, which aims to cancel the 2028 LA Olympics that will ruin lives and destroy our beautiful city https://nolympicsla.com/  

In part 2 of 2 of our 2019 Best-Of shows, Lindsay, Amira, Shireen, Jessica, and Brenda all talk about what they're most looking forward to in the world of sports for 2020. Then, we replay three of our favorite interviews of they year, with legendary Brazillian soccer player Sissi (12:25), NOlympics LA activist Anne Orchier (29:50), and trailblazing broadcaster Doris Burke (47:45). For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: teespring.com/stores/burn-it-all-down (use the code HOLIDAYS to get 10% off until the end of 2019) Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/

We spot the fake Ghislane and talk shop with two NOlympics LA organizers about the Cabal connect and Hollywood scumbags To hear the rest of the episode, head to patreon.com/TrueAnonPod and subscribe

So we're late this week, but we've got a note from Bernie to excuse the tardiness Today we’re talking about Ktown for All suing the City of Los Angeles, NOlympics LA traveling to Tokyo, A bunch of updates about the cops, and some big climate wins we’ve seen lately. "Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson": https://quillette.com/2019/07/23/cometh-the-hour-cometh-the-man-a-profile-of-boris-johnson/ Voting info for CA: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/political-parties/no-party-preference/

Bonus eps are here! Dean Spade https://www.patreon.com/posts/220-political-28476762 Rania Khalek and NolympicsLA https://www.patreon.com/posts/no-sanctions-no-28576729

On this week’s show, Brenda, Lindsay, Shireen and Jessica talk WNBA All-Star rosters. [2:42] The crew discusses the exciting happenings of Wimbledon. [7:23] Lindsay interviews Anne Orchier, an organizer with Nolympics LA, about their quest to stop the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, and the upcoming transnational gathering of anti-Olympics organizers in Tokyo. [22:39] And to round out the episode, the team talks about a fascinating sports tournament: the World University Games. [40:01] Of course, you’ll hear the Burn Pile, [52:22],and our Bad Ass Woman of the Week, starring Sifan Hassan. [1:03:54] To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: teespring.com/stores/burn-it-all-down For more info check our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/

NOlympics LA is making some bold moves in LA and across the globe. As the organizers prepare for their trip to Tokyo, to attend a conference with other Olympic resistance groups, Jonny Coleman and Professor David Goldblatt join me to talk about the 2028 bid, recent wins, and the future of the movement. David Goldblatt is a visiting professor at Pitzer College and author of several books including "The Games: A Global History of the Olympics". Available from W.W. Norton: https://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Games And his forthcoming book "The Age of Football: The Global Game in the 21st Century" will be available February 2020.

This week we speak to Anne Orchier, an activist with NOlympics LA about the upcoming summer Olympics in the city and the pervasive problems the city of Los Angeles is facing.  Also we’ve got ‘Choice Words’ about the importance of militant solidarity in the face or fascism after the week that was. We also have an unprecedented 4 ‘Just Stand Up’ Awards to the University of Maryland community, some college basketball legends and others as well as a Kaepernick Watch. All that and more on the program!  Anne Orchier Twitter: @body_schemes https://nolympicsla.com/ Zirin, A Call For Solidarity In the Face of Hate https://www.thenation.com/article/a-call-for-solidarity-in-the-face-of-hate/ — http://www.edgeofsportspodcast.com/ | http://twitter.com/EdgeOfSportsPod | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: edgeofsports@gmail.com | Edge of Sports hotline: 401-426-3343 (EDGE) — Music: Eye Examination - Del the Funky Homosapien | The Streets - WC Feat. Snoop Dogg | String Quartet - Anton Webern | Nightcall - Kavinsky | Hurt Me Soul - Lupe Fiasco | People Everyday - Arrested Development | Now Drop - Timbaland | Hootie Hoo - Outkast | Welcome - Erick Sermon | The Wire Theme

NOlympics LA and KNOCK.LA’s 10 part podcast series on the negative effects of the LA Olympics continues with Episode 4, “The Eric Garcetti Podcast Special.” In this episode, we unpack LA’s occasional Mayor, Eric Michael Garcetti, who has the worst kept secret in local politics (an upcoming presidential run), and explore MEG’s privilege, his hijacking of marginalized groups’ identities for political advancement, his fear of adversarial journalism, and what his true goals are. And we bring it all together by exploring how the Olympics is the cynical vanity project Garcetti’s using to try to make you forget he works for developers, police, and other elite interests. So turn on, tune in, and drop out; it’s time for the MEGisode.

Mayor Eric Garcetti is pinning his Presidential hopes on a successful bid for the 2028 Olympic Games, but a dedicated, and growing, group of Los Angeles organizers is rallying to stop him. The Olympics are sold to cities as essentially free by leveraging corporate sponsors to foot the bill: this is disingenuous. Rachel Reyes (@Rachel_Reyes) joined me at Ground Game HQ to talk about the hidden costs of the Olympics. How will the games drive displacement? How will the unhoused be further criminalized? How much more money will we funnel to LAPD to arrest and harass our neighbors? As the International Olympic Committee struggles to find host cities now is the time to fight back locally and to organize our neighbors to demand that our voices be heard. To learn more and get involved: https://nolympicsla.com/ And follow @NolympicsLA on social media to keep up with the fight

Today we're joined by Claire Lobenfeld and Jonny Coleman of NOlympics LA, a campaign launched by members of the Los Angeles chapter of Democratic Socialists of America to stop the 2028 Olympics games from coming to Los Angeles. We talk about how large shiny development projects get forced onto small tax bases in order to squeeze as much money out of constituents as possible. We also talk about how Little Giants should be interpreted as a product and statement of the proletariat.

"Lotteryism" is the use of the media by large corporations to obscure solidarity in favor of morality tales of “making it”. It’s the atomization of parties of mutual interest by lording over them the promise of something greater than what they could achieve if they simply banded together. Lotteryism is an ideology and a PR operation. Lotteryism, above all, renders us politically impotent. Lotteryism is a scam practiced by large corporations in various iterations to extract resources from local governments in hopes they can “win” their money, "jobs", or presence in their city. Cities compete in a race-to-the-bottom to offer billionaire team owners the best tax breaks and enticing perks. Bill Gates uses it to pit state education departments against one another for funding. Corporations like Mercedes-Benz and Amazon use it to get massive tax breaks and sweetheart deals in cities that want their headquarters. Walmart uses it against local governments to skirt minimum wage requirements and crush unions. The media––namely local media––mindlessly go along with these spectacles without any context or critical analysis. How is the Lotteryism scam practiced? Who does it benefit? And, most importantly, how can we fight it? With guest Anne Orchier, an organizer with NOlympics LA. (And stay tuned for Part II, next week, when we'll be joined by Dave Zirin, sports editor at The Nation.)

Jason Rubin hosts an interview with NOlympics LA organizers, Anne Orchier, Jonny Coleman, and Steve Ducey to talk about the corruption of the International Olympics Committee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Episode 6 of Burn It All Down, Julie DiCaro, Jessica Luther, Brenda Elsey, and Shireen Ahmed discuss LA's bid for the 2024 Olympics, youth soccer, and Shireen's interview with Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir. Plus you'll hear The Burn Pile, and Badass Woman of the Week! Introduction (0:58) New sports announced for the summer Olympics in 2020 but alongside that are ongoing protests against Los Angeles’ inevitable hosting of the Olympics in either 2024 or 2028 (12:44) 8-year-old Mili Hernandez’s soccer team was disqualified a tournament because Mili’s short hair made her look like a boy, revealing the complicated intersection of identity, the gender binary, and sport (21:40) Shireen interviews Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir, a Muslim hooper, who set the high school scoring record in Massachusetts, beat Obama in a game of HORSE at the White House, and was banned from playing on the professional level because she wears a hijab (36:40) Burn Pile – hosts set metaphorical fire to the softball questions Chicago media tossed at Addison Russell (39:16) to the University of North Carolina and its athletic director, Bubba Cunningham for cancelling the course, “Big Time College Sports and The Rights of Athletes” (40:50) to Real Madrid's Federico Valverde and the racist gesture of pulling the outer corner of his eyes (42:02) to the men who dedicate a lot of time on social media to downrating the work women create and put into the world (43:15) This week’s Badass Woman of the Week goes to Jelena Ostapenko, the 20-year-old unseeded French Open champion (44:56) with honorable mentions to Canada Women’s National retiring soccer players and Hall of Fame inductees Josée Bélanger, Jonelle Filigno, Robyn Gayle, Kaylyn Kyle, and Lauren Sesselmann (46:08) and our own Lindsay Gibbs, the birthday girl (46:36) Congratulations to Julie for winning a Gracie Award for #MoreThanMean (47:12) Links: New Olympic sports in 2020: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/sports/olympics/2020-summer-olympics-events.html?_r=0 Katie Ledecky and the 1500m: http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/no-1500m-olympics-women-katie-ledecky-out-luck 3-on-3 basketball: http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/06/3-on-3-olympic-basketball-rules-3-pointer-shot-clock-kevin-durant-ideal-player “Olympic sevens rugby set to continue into the 2024 Games”: http://www.rugbyworld.com/news/olympic-sevens-rugby-78798 “Australian Women's Rugby Sevens program gets huge funding increase after Rio gold”: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/sport/act-sport/australian-womens-rugby-sevens-program-gets-huge-funding-increase-after-rio-gold-20170609-gwo266.html A Q+A with one of the organizers behind NOlympics LA: https://la.curbed.com/2017/6/9/15772478/la-no-olympics-why-should-not-host HBO Real Sports’ reporting on the Olympics: http://www.hbo.com/real-sports-with-bryant-gumbel/episodes/0/232-episode/synopsis/july-on-real-sports-with-bryant-gumbel.html Rio’s Olympic venues are falling apart (Worms? WORMS!): https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/feb/10/rio-olympic-venues-already-falling-into-a-state-of-disrepair Militarization and the Olympics: https://www.thenation.com/article/why-all-opponents-gentrification-and-police-militarization-should-oppose-dc-2024-olympic/ Katie Barnes at espnW: “Having short hair or playing with action figures is no indication of gender”: http://www.espn.com/espnw/voices/article/19587919/having-short-hair-playing-action-figures-no-indication-gender GLAAD’s media reference guide: https://www.glaad.org/reference Shireen’s piece on FIBA finally lifting the ban on religious headwear: https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/after-a-long-fight-fiba-finally-lifts-its-ban-on-religious-headwear “Life Without Basketball,” a documentary about Abdul-Qaadir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OavrXZs9YgM Muslim Girls Hoop, Too: http://muslimgirlshooptoo.weebly.com/