The 2012 Olympics are currently being built up by an
\nunprecedented media hype.<\/p>\n
Yet there are many major objections as to how the event is being
\nrun,\u00a0 and just as many campaigners who are working to stop the
\nlong lasting damage which it will create.<\/p>\n
This summer an army of occupation<\/a> will take over the East End of I refer to the army of\u00a0 10,000 \u2018security guards\u2019,\u00a0\u00a0 7,000 military, There are also many concerns about the way that this event will Resisting the Olympics.<\/strong><\/p>\n The good news is that there are now a growing number of groups Here are a few links to these networks: –<\/p>\n – Games Monitor\u00a0 – debunking Olympics myths.<\/a><\/p>\n – SAY NO TO LONDON 2012<\/a><\/p>\n – <\/a>The New Lammas Lands Defence Committee<\/a><\/p>\n &<\/p>\n – NOGOE (No to Greenwich Olympic Equestrian Events)<\/a><\/p>\n Resistance to the Multinational Sponsors.<\/strong><\/p>\n The other really perturbing aspect of the Olympics is that it is Rather that list them all: On BP – The UK No Tar Sands Network<\/a><\/p>\n On EDF –\u00a0 Boycott EDF<\/a><\/p>\n On RTZ – Partizans (People against Rio Tinto and its Subsidiaries)<\/a><\/p>\n On Coca-Cola – No Sweat<\/a><\/p>\n On Muckdonalds – McCruelty<\/a><\/p>\n &<\/p>\n On Dow Chemical – The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal<\/a><\/p>\n The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) have also protested <\/a>against this Dow sponsorship.<\/p>\n The 2012 Olympic games will be a disaster, and we should <\/strong>support all of these campaigns.<\/strong><\/p>\n There was also a lot of resistance to the There is a lot of information you can find online about just what happened during this event.<\/p>\n These include: –<\/p>\n – No One Is Illegal Vancouver!<\/a><\/p>\n &<\/p>\n – Resisting the Olympics Resources<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2012 Olympics are currently being built up by an unprecedented media hype. Yet there are many major objections as to how the event is being run,\u00a0 and just as many campaigners who are working to stop the long lasting damage which it will create. Background information and Resources. This summer an army of occupation … Continue reading Resisting the Olympics – A Resource List.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,17,6,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBackground information and Resources.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nCockneyland.<\/p>\n
\nand the\u00a0 large\u00a0 number of extra police which will be in place
\nduring this years Olympic event.<\/p>\n
\nboth destroy many locally important ecological sites<\/a>,
\nand how it will impact upon the civil rights of those who live in
\nthe East End<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nand organisations which are countering the Olympics.<\/p>\n
\nbeing sponsored by some of the worlds largest & most
\nirresponsible multi-nationals.<\/p>\n
\nhere is a list of some campaigns which are working against them.<\/p>\n
\nVancouver 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver BC Canada.<\/p>\n