Interview: Anne Orchier of NOlympics LA on Tokyo 2020 Olympic Opposition

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In this episode Lindsay Gibbs interviews Anne Orchier of NOlympics LA about opposition to the Toyko 2020 Olympics from on-the-ground organizers in Japan, which is largely led by unhoused people and those who will be displaced by the games. The discuss the privatization of public spaces and the aggressive policing of poor communities that happens regardless of where the Olympics are held, and how COVID-19 is heightening these trends. They also talk about the latest updates on pushback to LA's 2028 Olympic Bid. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome to Burn it All Down. This is Lindsay Gibbs here for your interview of the week. And I'm thrilled to be joined by Ann Orchier of No Olympics, L.A. And thank you so much for being with us.
0:23.9	Thanks so much for having us, Lindsay. So you are a return guest, and it's been a while, though,
0:30.9	now since we last talked, I think, you know, pre-COVID, pre-posponement, pre-everything.
0:38.7	So I guess I want to start out with just, can you give a little bit of overview of what No Olympics, L.A. is and kind of how you got involved.
0:48.0	Yeah, for sure. So No Olympics, L.A. started in the spring of 2017.
0:52.7	We formed through the Housing and Homelessness Committee of
0:55.9	the Democratic Socialists of America, Los Angeles chapter. And, you know, there were essentially
1:01.8	a few of us, including myself, who were already organizing with other groups in L.A. and were part of
1:10.6	other organizations.
1:11.6	I'm a member of the Los Angeles Tenants Union.
1:14.6	Some other folks were part of LA Can who were based in Skid Row.
1:18.6	And a few of the kind of original coalition partners and members of an Olympics.
1:23.6	And through the work that we were doing in our own communities and with some other organizations,
1:29.1	we were just hearing a lot about how badly the Olympics were going to affect the work that we
1:36.9	were doing, in particular hearing about the impact that the Olympics had on poor communities,
1:43.0	particularly around policing and displacement.
1:47.1	You know, I personally, I was not in L.A. for the 1984 Olympics, but a lot of folks we
1:52.0	organized with were partners and comrades who live and organize on and around Skid Row really
1:59.9	pointed to the connection between police militarization
2:05.3	and kind of the, you know, the war on drugs and under Daryl Gates, who was like the notoriously
2:11.8	monstrous, racist LAPD chief in the 80s.
2:18.2	So like leading into the 84 games, for example.
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