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LOCAL Announcement :: Protest Activity

Rally / March: SHUT DOWN THE OLYMPIC BID

Say 'NO' to the Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid
Thursday, April 2, 2009
5pm, Federal Plaza (50 W. Adams)

The International Olympic Committee will be in town from April 2-8th to evaluate
Chicago's potential as a Host City for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Let them know
that Chicago 2016 does not speak for the people of Chicago. Let them know that
Chicagoans have other priorities. Let them hear your voice.
RALLY. SPEAK OUT. PROTEST. SHUT DOWN THE OLYMPIC BID!

We need Better Hospitals, Housing, Schools, and Trains -- Not Olympic Games.
They Play and We Pay. NO GAMES!

For more information email nogameschicago (at) gmail.com or call 312.235.2873
On the web: nogameschicago.com
NO GAMES: Chicago on Facebook
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WILL THE OLYMPICS PRODUCE JOBS AND HELP THE ECONOMY?
Based on the 13 Summer Games between 1964 in Tokyo and London in 2012, the overall costs have exceeded a billion dollars ten times, with a net profit only once.
Source: Chris Shaw. Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games

'Long-term unemployed and workless communities were largely unaffected by the staging of the Games in each of the [last four host] cities. Much of the employment was temporary, and there was also little evidence that volunteer skills transferred to the post-Games economy,' says the report co-authored by Dr Iain MacRury. 'Greece actually lost 70,000 jobs in the three months following the [2004] Games, mostly in the
construction industry.'
Source: www.london.gov.uk/assembly/index.jsp

A report by Roger G. Noll and Andrew Zimbalist of Stanford University found that a new sports facility has an extremely small (perhaps even negative) effect on overall economic activity and employment. Stadia rarely earn anything approaching a reasonable return on investment and sports facilities attract neither tourists nor new industry.
Source: "Sports, Jobs, and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Stadiums

WHAT ABOUT HOUSING AND DISPLACEMENT?
Approximately 30,000 poor residents were displaced from their homes in Atlanta by gentrification, the demolition of public housing, rental speculation, and urban renewal projects associated with the Olympics. Approximately 2,000 public housing units were demolished and nearly 6,000 residents displaced. African-Americans were disproportionately affected by displacements, housing unaffordability, and harassment and arrests of the
homeless. The criminalization of homelessness was a key feature of the 1996 Atlanta Games: 9,000 arrest citations were issued to homeless people in Atlanta in 1995 and 1996 as part of the Olympic Games 'clean up'.
Source: Center on Housing Rights and Evictions

The Olympic Games have displaced more than two million people in the last 20 years, disproportionately affection minorities such as the homeless, the poor, Roma and African-Americans, according to ... Fair Play for Housing Right: Mega Events, Olympic Games and Housing Rights.
Source: Center on Housing Rights and Evictions
 
 

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