Olympics

The Winter Olympics In Trouble?

February 15, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Resist! Athletes, Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Olympics

One Hundred Percent (100%) of Olympians believe excessive levels of climate change are real and a serious threat to ecosystems that support life. That is an intentional lie, but it may very well be true. Nobody experiences the upheaval of climate change like Olympians. “I couldn’t watch it happen and not say anything about it.” (Bea Kim, snowboarder Olympian from California, Can the Winter Olympics be Saved? Talking Climate, Feb. 11, 2026) Bea is a member of POW (Protect Our Winters Now) founded by Jeremy Jones, a U.S. snowboarder. A POW letter signed by over 200 ski professionals addressed the International Ski and Snowboard Federation’s failure to support climate polices.

Global Palestine Rises To Defeat Global Israel

February 9, 2026 Adrienne Pine, Popular Resistance. Strategize! Dockworkers, ICE, Israel, Italy, Olympics, Palestine, Student Activism, Working Class

The key to developing a good strategy is knowing your enemy. Friday’s actions were important precisely that because they stem from a clear understanding of how Zionist imperialism works. Some years ago Palestinian scholar Magid Shihade introduced the concept of Global Israel. One key element of his multifaceted theory is that that in order to maintain its genocidal project in Palestine, Israel has infringed on the basic human rights of people everywhere, and has worked to prevent nations from exercising their own sovereignty through replicating its settler colonial governance techniques and technologies around the world.

International Opposition To Trump, ICE Shapes Milan Olympics Opening

February 9, 2026 Alex Lantier, WSWS.org. Resist! Capitalism, ICE, Italy, Mass Action, Olympics, Socialism, Working Class

The 2026 Winter Olympics has seen an outpouring of opposition to Trump and the presence in Milan of agents of his murderous Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. Italy’s fascist prime minister, Georgia Meloni, welcomed US Vice President JD Vance to Milan and placed the city on lockdown. Nearly 6,000 heavily-armed Italian police and military officers are patrolling the streets. Snipers are deployed on the rooftops, no-fly zones have been established across the city and a special decree allows police to jail people in Milan for 12 hours on the flimsy grounds that police suspect they might engage in violent protest.

‘Not Welcome’: Italy Rejects ICE Role At Winter Olympics

January 29, 2026 Sharon Black, Struggle - La Lucha. Resist! ICE, Italy, Olympics, Paramilitary groups

The Trump administration’s plan to embed agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the security detail for the U.S. delegation at next month’s Winter Olympics in Italy has triggered international outrage, uniting officials, activists, and ordinary Italians in protest. The scandal broke after the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano reported that ICE agents would operate alongside the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service at the Milan-Cortina Games, supposedly “to vet and mitigate risks from transnational criminal organizations,” according to a Department of Homeland Security statement.

FIFA And IOC Must Ban The US And Israel From International Sporting Events

August 4, 2025 Black Alliance For Peace, Black Agenda Report. Resist!, Slider FIFA, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Israel, Olympics, United States, world cup

The United States has become dangerous for members of the global community, and specifically for non-white/non-European people. The world is witnessing massive violations of human rights and the Constitution of the United States as masked agents using unmarked vehicles raid work places, homes, and places of public assembly to incarcerate and disappear Black, Brown, and Indigenous people and, in too many cases, denying them legal representation and basic information as to their whereabouts and wellbeing to their families and attorneys. Under the current U.S administration anyone suspected of residing in and/or visiting the United States with or without “proper” documentation, including U.S. citizens, are being harassed, questioned about their political beliefs and even detained without due process.

How Can Los Angeles Host The 2028 Olympics Now?

August 4, 2025 Joe Mathews, LA Progressive. Resist! Law Enforcement, Los Angeles, Olympics, Trump Administration

This show must not go on. It’s time, right now, for greater Los Angeles to halt all preparations to host the 2028 Summer Olympics. Let’s step away, and turn over these Games to a world city better positioned to host them. Not because we don’t love the Olympics. We are a proud Olympic city, shaped by the 1932 and 1984 Games. In normal times, our incomparable international connections, entertainment assets, and sports facilities would allow us to host what LA28 chair Casey Wasserman calls “the largest peacetime gathering in the history of the world.” But it’s no longer peacetime in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Passes United State’s Highest Minimum Wage

May 30, 2025 Sasha Abramsky, Truthout. Strategize! California, Labor Movement, Los Angeles, Minimum Wage, NOlympics, Olympics, Unions

The Los Angeles City Council this month passed a law requiring hotel staff and airport catering industry workers be paid at least $30 per hour and given comprehensive health benefits by July 1, 2028. The minimum wage will be raised to $22.50 this year and increase by $2.50 each July for the next three years. This is a huge victory for UNITE HERE Local 11, the union that campaigned for the legislation, and represents the highest minimum wage in the country. (California’s statewide minimum is currently set at $16.50, and the highest minimum wage in the country currently is in D.C., with a $17.50 floor.)

The Lessons L.A.’s Anti-Olympics Organizers Are Taking From Paris

December 17, 2024 Phineas Rueckert, Next City. Strategize! Califonia, Displacement, Homelessness, Los Angeles, Olympics, Paris

On Nov. 3, a group of young people armed with banners began to prepare a protest. It was just two days before the U.S. election, but these activists weren’t at the White House or Trump Tower. Instead, they made their way to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. As evening fell, the activists beamed a powerful laser onto the iron grills of the tower. “Olympics Legacy: 20,000 Evictions,” the message read. This action was the grand finale of The Other Side of the Medal, a coalition of Parisian activists shedding light – in this case, literally – on how the Olympic Games can harm host cities through temporary displacement of rough sleepers, heavy policing of low-income communities, greenwashing and other side effects.

Olympic Games Once Again Marred By Western Bias And Controversy

August 13, 2024 Monica Moorehead, Workers World. Educate! China, Doping, Global South, Olympics, Sinophobia

The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, in Paris, France, officially ended on Aug. 11. There were certainly some historic moments achieved by athletes who hail from the Global South. These included gold medal winners Julien Alfred from St. Lucia, Marileidy Paulino from the Dominican Republic and the legendary Cuban boxer, Mijain Lopez, the only athlete in Olympics history to win gold medals in five successive games. In another historic moment, North and South Korean athletes took collective selfies together during the table tennis medal ceremonies in a show of unity.

United States Elites Fail To Sink Chinese Swimmers

August 12, 2024 Rick Sterling, Resumen English. Educate! China, Doping, Media, Olympics, Propaganda, Racism, Sports

US political and media elites tried but failed to sink the Chinese swimming team at the Paris Olympics. The Chinese swimmers performed well despite the increased stress caused by media-induced rumors of “Chinese doping”. And now, the tables are being turned as the US anti-doping regime is coming under increasing scrutiny and criticism. The media manufactured cloud of suspicion Just a few months ago the NY Times and German ARD media ignited the controversy with an “investigation” regarding an incident from December 2021. At that time, 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a trace amount of the heart medication Trimetazadine (TMZ) during a swim meet for top swimmers from across the country.

USA Lets Athletes Cheat With Steroids, While Accusing Russia And China

August 11, 2024 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report Benjamin Netanyahu, China, Doping, France, Gaza, International Criminal Court (ICC), Iraq, Israel, Olympics, Palestine, Russia, spying, Ukraine

The United States has for a decade allowed athletes in international competitions, including the Olympics, to use prohibited drugs such as steroids, recruiting them as informants to spy on others. This is according to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the global authority on the use of banned substances in sports. WADA revealed this in a statement on August 7, detailing “a scheme whereby the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) allowed athletes who had doped, to compete for years, in at least one case without ever publishing or sanctioning their anti-doping rule violations, in direct contravention of the World Anti-Doping Code and USADA’s own rules”.

The Struggle To Stop The ‘Social Cleansing’ Of Paris For The Olympics

July 27, 2024 Daniel McArdle, Waging Nonviolence. Organize! Evictions, Homeless, Migrants, Olympics, Paris

With the approach of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, organizers and aid groups are working to ensure the continuation of social services in the city. They are also trying to stop the evictions of over 12,500 of the city’s most vulnerable people, who often face the destruction of their dwellings, belongings and documents. “Those are their homes, no matter how rough,” emphasized Antoine De Clerck, coordinator of La Reverse de la Médaille, or RDLM, a collective of over 80 different aid organizations formed in response to the “social cleansing” operation underway in the city.

Predictive Policing And The Paris 2024 Olympic Games

July 26, 2024 Yegor Halva, Unicorn Riot. Educate! France, Mass Surveillance, Olympics, Police

As Paris prepares to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games from July 26 to August 11, 2024, the French government is implementing unprecedented surveillance measures to ensure safety. However, these measures have sparked fierce debate over the potential erosion of civil liberties, with opposition groups claiming that these systems automate social injustice. Sporting mega-events, including the Olympic Games, have long been testing grounds for new surveillance technologies. Their exceptional size and security demands constitute an emergency situation which is used as a pretext to justify the accelerated implementation of extraordinary regulations and policies that temporarily suspend law, along with the adoption of legislation that would be otherwise very hard to pass during “normal” periods.

Migrants And Homeless Expelled From Paris Ahead Of Olympic Games

July 25, 2024 Ana Vračar, People's Dispatch. Educate! Evictions, Forced evictions, France, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Migrants, Olympics, Paris, Right to housing

One of the latest communities at risk of forced displacement is a Roma encampment in La Courneuve, Seine-Saint-Denis, located on the route of the Paralympic marathon scheduled for September. About 200 people, most of whom moved from worse living conditions in a nearby camp, now live in fear of eviction, with no clear relocation plan proposed by the local authorities.

Extinction Rebellion Is Targetting The Olympics Before They’ve Even Begun

July 20, 2024 The Canary. Resist! Bicycling, Extinction Rebellion, greenwashing, Olympics, shell

Extinction Rebellion activists visited the National Cycling Centre in Manchester on Tuesday 16 July to call on gold medalist and active travel guru Chris Boardman to help them convince British Cycling to drop its sponsor Shell ahead of the Olympics in Paris. Extinction Rebellion: Love The Olympics, Hate Shell The protest took place as Boardman, who was British Cycling’s policy advisor for over a decade, set off on an eight-day bike ride from Manchester to Paris ahead of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Boardman aims to travel across England highlighting the work of inspirational organisations who are working hard to become environmentally sustainable.

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