Sunday, February 14, 2010
Olympics Train Wreck
Jules Boykoff examines the publicly-financed corporate franchise called the Olympics. Criticized for dozing native lands, doubling homelessness and militarizing public space, can the Olympics still pretend to preserve human dignity? As Shailagh Keaney reports from Onondaga, the Olympics is not just about sport; it is political, colonial and imperial. As Stella August and Phillipa Ryan note from the Vancouver Women's Centre, the Olympics are another broken promise.
