Demonstrate Against the Corporate Olympics

July 28, 2012 12:00

Published: June 29, 2012 22:49 by Counter Olympics Network |

Tagged as: olympics social_struggles

Places: mile_end newham tower_hamlets

Whose Games? Whose City? July 28th Demonstrate Against the Corporate Olympics

No limos! No logos! No launchers!

 

Assemble 12 noon, Saturday 28 July 2012

Mile End Park, East London (nearest tube: Mile End)

March to Victoria Park for the People's Games for All!

To include speeches, entertainment, "alternative games", and children's events.

The Counter Olympics Network links people and organisations critical of some or many aspects of the 2012 Games.

It will be an event which symbolically "reclaims" the Games, a party to which everyone is invited. It will present a truer and more optimistic vision of Britain than the officially promoted one of a militarised and austerity ridden country that is content to be hijacked by millionaire politicians and their corporate friends

The event is supported by 35 groups and organisations so far, including:

ALARM
Athletes Against Dow Chemical's Olympic Sponsorship
BADHOC
Blacklist Support Group
Brent Trades Council
Coalition of Resistance
Counterfire
Defend the Right to Protest
Disabled People Against Cuts
Drop Dow Now
East London Against Arms Fairs
G4S Campaign
Games Monitor
Hackney Green Party
Hackney Trades Council
Hackney Woodcraft Folk
Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
Haringey Trades Council
Islington Trades Council
Jewish Socialist Group
Lewisham People Before Profit
Lewisham Stop the War
Lewisham Trades Council
London Green Party
London Mining Network
Netpol
Occupy London
Our Olympics
Save Leyton Marsh Campaign
Space Hijackers
Stop the Olympic Missiles
Thurrock Heckler
UK Tar Sands Network
Waltham Forest Trades Council
Youth Fight For Jobs

 

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