"The Battle For The Bid - One Year Later"
A little more than one year after the October 2 decision to award the 2016 Olympic games to Rio, organizers of No Games Chicago will discuss what h...
A little more than one year after the October 2 decision to award the 2016 Olympic games to Rio, organizers of No Games Chicago will discuss what h...
Tom Tresser | Posted 05.25.2011
As far as we know, no other group of citizens has taken this journey to Switzerland and the heart of the Olympic movement to present their protests directly to the IOC in defiance of the leaders of their city's bid apparatus.
Tom Tresser | Posted 05.25.2011
Martin Macias, Jr., a credentialed journalist who works for Vocalo.org, the online and new media outlet for Chicago Public Radio, was turned back from the Canadian border late Saturday night.
Tom Tresser | Posted 05.25.2011
If citizens want to be protected from bad government and further rip-offs, we are going to have to rise to a new level of involvement. I have little hope that our elected representatives will truly represent us.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011
Team Obama needs -- as the International Olympics Committee has just done -- to be continually reminded that the rest of the world is not an American kick ball.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
The man who helped thwart President Obama, Mayor Daley and the rest of Chicago's powerful Olympics proponents is setting his sights on a potentially t...
Tom Tresser | Posted 05.25.2011
We had penetrated the multiple rings of security, outfaced the bureaucracy of the International Olympic Committee and stood our ground to deliver information that the mayor, the 2016 Committee and the entire business elite of Chicago didn't want to see and didn't want to acknowledge.
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — (AP) The mayor, the president and Oprah Winfrey may hope to return to Chicago from Copenhagen with the 2016 Olympic Games, but some ar...
Tom Tresser | Posted 05.25.2011
The purpose of No Games Chicago's trip is to take a simple message to the members of the IOC -- the people of Chicago do not want the 2016 Olympics.
Dave Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011
The very idea that Chicago could be the setting for the Olympics might have been hatched by Jon Stewart for a four-year supply of comedic fodder.
Tom Tresser | Posted 05.25.2011
'Why are you here?' the IOC representative asked. I explained that we are citizens who believe that hosting the Olympics would be a disaster for Chicago.
AP | GRAHAM DUNBAR | Posted 05.25.2011
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — A group opposing Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Games took its case to International Olympic Committee headquarte...
Tom Tresser | Posted 05.25.2011
The Olympics are being sold to the people of Chicago with a massive, hype machine-fueled litany of promises and claims.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
Opponents of the city of Chicago's efforts to land the 2016 Olympic Games say they will hold a rally on the day international Olympics officials visit...
Tom Tresser | Posted 05.25.2011