NOlympics LA
@nolympicsla.bsky.social
Olympics always accelerate displacement & militarization. No Olympics in LA. No Olympics Anywhere. Cancel #LA28
nolympicsla.com
linktr.ee/nolympicsla
nolympicsla.com
linktr.ee/nolympicsla
Pinned
NOlympics LA
@nolympicsla.bsky.social
· Aug 5
Residents Prioritize Wildfire Recovery Over the 2028 Olympics
Support for the LA28 Games Eroding Over TimeThe LA28 Olympic Games have been looming on the California horizon for over a decade, after an unsuccessful bid for the 2024 Games magically became the 2028...
nolympicsla.com
We recently ran a public poll.
Here's what we found.
Here's what we found.
NOlympics LA started as a DSA-LA working group. This year, they decided to make their bed with Unite Here’s reformist platform.
Our position is that the Olympics cannot be reformed. Efforts to do so elsewhere have consistently failed. There is no “good” way to host the Olympics.
Our position is that the Olympics cannot be reformed. Efforts to do so elsewhere have consistently failed. There is no “good” way to host the Olympics.
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
NOlympics LA started as a DSA-LA working group. This year, they decided to make their bed with Unite Here’s reformist platform.
Our position is that the Olympics cannot be reformed. Efforts to do so elsewhere have consistently failed. There is no “good” way to host the Olympics.
Our position is that the Olympics cannot be reformed. Efforts to do so elsewhere have consistently failed. There is no “good” way to host the Olympics.
Reposted by NOlympics LA
Wrote about it last year!
The no-build (until-we-need-to-build-something-fast) games
LA could leverage this ordinance to make it easier to create new public spaces, public bathrooms, and even public housing leading up to 2028
www.torched.la
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Wrote about it last year!
Reposted by NOlympics LA
I know it's not surprising anymore, but it's still shocking to see US police beating people in the streets for...celebrating a world series win.
Of course @lataco.bsky.social @shoton35mm.bsky.social has the definitive account of what unfolded before and after Saturday’s victory — which illustrates over and over again how LA is completely unprepared to handle celebrating fans
Bartenders and Innocent Bystanders Tear Gassed, Knocked Over By Horses, And Shot With ‘Rubber Bullets’ During World Series Night Celebrations ~ L.A. TACO
One man who was walking to Gold Room bar had to get surgery on his finger after being shot with a “rubber bullet.” “He was just running away and they got him in the leg and shot the top of his finger ...
lataco.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I know it's not surprising anymore, but it's still shocking to see US police beating people in the streets for...celebrating a world series win.
In case anyone thought these mega-event organizers would stand up to Trump, please disabuse yourself of the thought. They’ll do whatever it takes to placate the madman.
Fifa to award new ‘peace prize’ in Washington next month on.ft.com/43efnLR
Fifa to award new ‘peace prize’ in Washington next month
Head of football governing body is close ally of Donald Trump, fuelling speculation that US president may be first recipient
on.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
In case anyone thought these mega-event organizers would stand up to Trump, please disabuse yourself of the thought. They’ll do whatever it takes to placate the madman.
Yet more money draining from the city into the police.
LAPD found another way to defund the city, this time by trying to overhire officers beyond their hiring budget. The decision could cost the city $3.56 million in $ it doesn't have, and the councilmembers on the Budget and Finance Committee weren't too happy about it
www.joeyscott.xyz/lapd-project...
www.joeyscott.xyz/lapd-project...
LAPD projects to further defund the city by overhiring officers, drawing ire from city council.
No funding has been identified to cover the $3.56 million overspending.
www.joeyscott.xyz
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Yet more money draining from the city into the police.
“The only thing it accomplishes is giving pretextual excuses for LAPD’s bloodlust during public assemblies.” THAT PART!
Be sure to also note @adamrose.bsky.social's assessment of why declaring an unlawful assembly to shut down a bar DURING THE FINAL GAME OF THE WORLD SERIES sets a chilling precedent: “Using unlawful assembly this way is like pre-crime or thought-crime enforcement"
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
“The only thing it accomplishes is giving pretextual excuses for LAPD’s bloodlust during public assemblies.” THAT PART!
Reposted by NOlympics LA
We keep getting chances to prove that we know what we're doing. And we keep failing.
And in seven months this city is going to be filled with tens of thousands of soccer fans. Good luck!
And in seven months this city is going to be filled with tens of thousands of soccer fans. Good luck!
In 217 days people from all over the globe are going to congregate in LA to watch extremely intense sporting matches in public. What's the strategy to welcome these fans if we're tear-gassing anyone who dares to drink a Modelo on the sidewalk?
Winning streak
It's past time to expand LA's celebratory capacity to match the records of our world-champion teams
www.torched.la
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
We keep getting chances to prove that we know what we're doing. And we keep failing.
And in seven months this city is going to be filled with tens of thousands of soccer fans. Good luck!
And in seven months this city is going to be filled with tens of thousands of soccer fans. Good luck!
"There's a lot of things that can go wrong."
— LA City Council President @mhdcd8.bsky.social and one of the geniuses who rubberstamped this horrendous deal
— LA City Council President @mhdcd8.bsky.social and one of the geniuses who rubberstamped this horrendous deal
The Olympics are a multi-billion dollar business. Here's what that means for LA taxpayers
The city's financial exposure is essentially unlimited in the event of budget overruns.
laist.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"There's a lot of things that can go wrong."
— LA City Council President @mhdcd8.bsky.social and one of the geniuses who rubberstamped this horrendous deal
— LA City Council President @mhdcd8.bsky.social and one of the geniuses who rubberstamped this horrendous deal
Reposted by NOlympics LA
I wrote about LA's remarkable opportunity to once again use the World Series as trial run for upcoming megaevents. Unfortunately our leaders are incapable of envisioning a city that cheers together: there was very little planning for public celebration and a whole lot of leeway for police aggression
Winning streak
It's past time to expand LA's celebratory capacity to match the records of our world-champion teams
www.torched.la
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I wrote about LA's remarkable opportunity to once again use the World Series as trial run for upcoming megaevents. Unfortunately our leaders are incapable of envisioning a city that cheers together: there was very little planning for public celebration and a whole lot of leeway for police aggression
Reposted by NOlympics LA
IT IS AN HONOR TO LIVE & FIGHT IN LA🖤🫡
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FUCK ICE!
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FUCK ICE!
November 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
IT IS AN HONOR TO LIVE & FIGHT IN LA🖤🫡
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FUCK ICE!
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FUCK ICE!
Reposted by NOlympics LA
🚨🚨🚨LOS ANGELES- This is a call for ALL HANDS ON DECK! Organize your neighborhood, patrol your block, & defend your neighbors!
Feds are targeting LA more aggressively than ever. THREAD with updates from @latenantsunion.bsky.social on feds escalating + changing tactics & how we fight back:
Feds are targeting LA more aggressively than ever. THREAD with updates from @latenantsunion.bsky.social on feds escalating + changing tactics & how we fight back:
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🚨🚨🚨LOS ANGELES- This is a call for ALL HANDS ON DECK! Organize your neighborhood, patrol your block, & defend your neighbors!
Feds are targeting LA more aggressively than ever. THREAD with updates from @latenantsunion.bsky.social on feds escalating + changing tactics & how we fight back:
Feds are targeting LA more aggressively than ever. THREAD with updates from @latenantsunion.bsky.social on feds escalating + changing tactics & how we fight back:
Reposted by NOlympics LA
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
“This is the cost when your city leadership foolishly prioritizes mega events and tourism over the lives of the people who live here.”
LA Mayor Karen Bass calls on city departments to cut budgets, weeks after $2.9 billion LA Convention Center 'gamble'
The 5% budget-cutting exercise also came just days after a groundbreaking ceremony for the LA Convention Center expansion project, which is estimated to siphon around $100 million a year from city ser...
thelareporter.la
October 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
“This is the cost when your city leadership foolishly prioritizes mega events and tourism over the lives of the people who live here.”
Reposted by NOlympics LA
Reposted by NOlympics LA
"I can't wait to hear how organizers plan to "deliver a major event in accordance with the highest global human rights standards" when the federal government is kidnapping people off LA's streets."
Torched readers know I have been begging for a vision statement from the city for the past 1.5 years. But with less than three years to go, I was hoping for some goals beyond those outlined in the games agreement. This vision really struggles to articulate any tangible benefits for the city
1,000 days later
Unfortunately, the mayor's vision — which feels about 1,000 days too late — is so light on substance that it's hard to see how LA's megaevent future materializes
www.torched.la
October 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"I can't wait to hear how organizers plan to "deliver a major event in accordance with the highest global human rights standards" when the federal government is kidnapping people off LA's streets."
Reposted by NOlympics LA
what a slap in the face to anyone living in LA
you can’t afford to attend the games in your own city, but hey we set up some TVs so you watch them
you can’t afford to attend the games in your own city, but hey we set up some TVs so you watch them
Take, for example, this plan for creating community celebration zones for Angelenos who don't have tickets to events. This is truly the promise of "Games for All."
One celebration zone per council district?! That's 15 sites for a 500-square-mile city! Hardly "every corner of the city"
One celebration zone per council district?! That's 15 sites for a 500-square-mile city! Hardly "every corner of the city"
October 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
what a slap in the face to anyone living in LA
you can’t afford to attend the games in your own city, but hey we set up some TVs so you watch them
you can’t afford to attend the games in your own city, but hey we set up some TVs so you watch them
Mega-events are just parties for the rich! They’re not meant for the people who live in the city that hosts them. THOSE people are meant to be out of sight.
what a slap in the face to anyone living in LA
you can’t afford to attend the games in your own city, but hey we set up some TVs so you watch them
you can’t afford to attend the games in your own city, but hey we set up some TVs so you watch them
Take, for example, this plan for creating community celebration zones for Angelenos who don't have tickets to events. This is truly the promise of "Games for All."
One celebration zone per council district?! That's 15 sites for a 500-square-mile city! Hardly "every corner of the city"
One celebration zone per council district?! That's 15 sites for a 500-square-mile city! Hardly "every corner of the city"
October 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Mega-events are just parties for the rich! They’re not meant for the people who live in the city that hosts them. THOSE people are meant to be out of sight.
Reposted by NOlympics LA
Torched readers know I have been begging for a vision statement from the city for the past 1.5 years. But with less than three years to go, I was hoping for some goals beyond those outlined in the games agreement. This vision really struggles to articulate any tangible benefits for the city
1,000 days later
Unfortunately, the mayor's vision — which feels about 1,000 days too late — is so light on substance that it's hard to see how LA's megaevent future materializes
www.torched.la
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Torched readers know I have been begging for a vision statement from the city for the past 1.5 years. But with less than three years to go, I was hoping for some goals beyond those outlined in the games agreement. This vision really struggles to articulate any tangible benefits for the city
Reposted by NOlympics LA
we’re anti-Olympics over here, but also it doesn’t feel like the city is even taking it halfway seriously
Torched readers know I have been begging for a vision statement from the city for the past 1.5 years. But with less than three years to go, I was hoping for some goals beyond those outlined in the games agreement. This vision really struggles to articulate any tangible benefits for the city
1,000 days later
Unfortunately, the mayor's vision — which feels about 1,000 days too late — is so light on substance that it's hard to see how LA's megaevent future materializes
www.torched.la
October 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
we’re anti-Olympics over here, but also it doesn’t feel like the city is even taking it halfway seriously
We signed this letter to CD1. 41.18 can and will be used to criminalize ANYONE existing in public that the State doesn’t want existing in public. And sweeps are only going to get worse and more frequent unless our so-called “progressive” officials step up and fulfill their campaign promises.
Residents of the encampment, the Mountain View community, who were swept by Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez have signed a letter to the office demanding she end sweeps and "push back against 41.18," the anti-camping law that many were cited with.
October 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
We signed this letter to CD1. 41.18 can and will be used to criminalize ANYONE existing in public that the State doesn’t want existing in public. And sweeps are only going to get worse and more frequent unless our so-called “progressive” officials step up and fulfill their campaign promises.
General meeting link in bio.
no cops, no politicians, no researchers, no press*. The later three groups can DM us to schedule a meeting. The former can scram!
*journalism and academic workers attending as organizers welcome
no cops, no politicians, no researchers, no press*. The later three groups can DM us to schedule a meeting. The former can scram!
*journalism and academic workers attending as organizers welcome
October 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
General meeting link in bio.
no cops, no politicians, no researchers, no press*. The later three groups can DM us to schedule a meeting. The former can scram!
*journalism and academic workers attending as organizers welcome
no cops, no politicians, no researchers, no press*. The later three groups can DM us to schedule a meeting. The former can scram!
*journalism and academic workers attending as organizers welcome
Reposted by NOlympics LA
Also published by @lapublicpress.bsky.social ! lapublicpress.org/2025/10/ingl...
The Clippers promised progress. Inglewood's Black community paid the price
A federal investigation exposed a shady deal, but it has bigger ramifications for one of LA’s disappearing Black enclaves
lapublicpress.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Also published by @lapublicpress.bsky.social ! lapublicpress.org/2025/10/ingl...
Reposted by NOlympics LA
NEW: The LA Clippers claimed to fight climate change, but their tree-planting partner vanished while their superstar pocketed millions for doing nothing. Trees or no trees, it feels like smoke and mirrors for a city still losing its air and its children.
capitalbnews.org/clippers-int...
capitalbnews.org/clippers-int...
In LA, Olympic Dreams Lead to Nightmares for a Historic Black Community
A federal investigation exposed a shady deal that has bigger ramifications for one of the metro area’s disappearing Black enclaves.
capitalbnews.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
NEW: The LA Clippers claimed to fight climate change, but their tree-planting partner vanished while their superstar pocketed millions for doing nothing. Trees or no trees, it feels like smoke and mirrors for a city still losing its air and its children.
capitalbnews.org/clippers-int...
capitalbnews.org/clippers-int...
Reposted by NOlympics LA
The Clippers promised progress, Inglewood’s Black community paid the price.
A federal investigation exposed a shady deal, but it has bigger ramifications for one of LA’s disappearing Black enclaves.
lapublicpress.org/2025/10/ingl...
A federal investigation exposed a shady deal, but it has bigger ramifications for one of LA’s disappearing Black enclaves.
lapublicpress.org/2025/10/ingl...
The Clippers promised progress. Inglewood's Black community paid the price
A federal investigation exposed a shady deal, but it has bigger ramifications for one of LA’s disappearing Black enclaves
lapublicpress.org
October 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The Clippers promised progress, Inglewood’s Black community paid the price.
A federal investigation exposed a shady deal, but it has bigger ramifications for one of LA’s disappearing Black enclaves.
lapublicpress.org/2025/10/ingl...
A federal investigation exposed a shady deal, but it has bigger ramifications for one of LA’s disappearing Black enclaves.
lapublicpress.org/2025/10/ingl...
Reposted by NOlympics LA
Google is now “official cloud provider” of LA28.
Does the no-build games include data centers
Does the no-build games include data centers
October 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Google is now “official cloud provider” of LA28.
Does the no-build games include data centers
Does the no-build games include data centers