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Old 08-02-2021, 05:45 AM   #5 (permalink)
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The Olympics Devastate Host Cities and Need a Permanent Location

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In host cities, the games have displaced residents, sped up gentrification, and increased policing and the militarization of the public sphere. Before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 1.5 million Chinese residents were evicted from their homes. In preparation for Rio 2016, countless neighborhoods were destroyed — an estimated 60,000 Brazilians lost their homes — to make way for Olympics infrastructure. Ahead of the Tokyo Games this summer, some residents of the Kasumigaoka apartment complex in Tokyo were evicted to make way for the main stadium. Communities across the city saw “severe gentrification,” according to Ayako Yoshida, a member of Hangorin No Kai, the Japanese anti-Olympics activist organization. “Under the banner of so-called neighborhood ‘redevelopment,’ we witnessed private corporations kick people out of their homes and transform neighborhoods for their own profit,” she told Teen Vogue.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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