The Dig: An Olympic-Size Swindle in LA with Molly Lambert and Jules Boykoff
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🗓️ 15 September 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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The so-called Olympic spirit doesn’t match the reality of a highly-corporatized Games that often leaves taxpayers picking up the tab, engenders abusive policing and justifies the remaking of cities for the rich at the expense of ordinary and poor people. Dan’s guests today are Molly Lambert, a writer and member of Los Angeles DSA, and Jules Boykoff, the author of "Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics" from Verso. Support this pod with your money at patreon.com/thedig
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon.com |
| 0:04.1 | and by University of California Press, which publishes loads of titles of |
| 0:08.7 | interest to Dig listeners like you. One that you might find interesting is enclosure, Palestinian landscapes in a historical |
| 0:17.8 | mirror by Gary Fields. Enclosure Marshall's new arguments about the nature of the conflict in Israel-Palestine |
| 0:25.2 | by examining the dispossession of Palestinians from their land, and Israel's rationale for seizing |
| 0:31.2 | control of Palestinian land by taking on a broad analysis of power, |
| 0:36.4 | space, and an enduring discourse about land improvement. |
| 0:41.0 | Looking at Palestine in comparison to the English enclosures which eradicated |
| 0:46.2 | access to common land across the English countryside and Amerindian |
| 0:51.3 | dispossession in colonial America. |
| 0:54.0 | Fields shows that the same moral, legal, and cartographic arguments were used by enclosures |
| 1:01.0 | in very different places and times, and in doing so challenges Israel's |
| 1:06.9 | claim that it is uniquely persecuted. |
| 1:10.9 | Enclosure Palestinian landscapes in a historical mirror by Gary Fields, out now from University |
| 1:18.6 | of California Press. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:37.0 | Ideally, the Olympics is a beautiful thing. |
| 1:40.0 | An event that allows countries to compete in sport rather than war and that |
| 1:45.5 | celebrates outstanding human athletic achievement. In reality the Olympics is a |
| 1:50.4 | heavily corporate endeavor that frequently brings financial harm, along with all kinds of other harms, to cities. |
| 1:57.0 | On Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee announced that the 2024 games will be held in Paris, and that the 2024 games will be held in Paris and that the 2028 games will be held in |
| 2:05.9 | Los Angeles. |
| 2:08.0 | In LA, the local Democratic Socialist of America chapter has taken the lead in mobilizing opposition. |
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