Let the games begin: everything for everyone!
* 1pm Sunday 24th August in Shoreditch Park *
Join us for a protest pic-nic at Shoreditch Festival
( http://www.shoreditchfestival.org.uk/sunday24.html ) , where Hackney Council will be marking the official handover of the Olympic Games from Beijing to London at 2.30pm. This will take the form of a 1948-themed street party: the last time the Games were in London.
Bring banners, sports equipment and food to share and consider dressing accordingly.
Let the Games begin!
In four years the Olympic games will be held in London: no reason to celebrate.
The 2012 Games will contribute to privatisation, inequality and surveillance in our city. It will convert large areas of public space into private ground, most of it compulsorily purchased. The Games rely on volunteers working for no wages as well as workers in conditions that will get worse as 2012 approaches. Already we have seen local businesses closed down, allotment-users, travellers and tenants evicted
and amateur football pitches are getting destroyed (not to mention everything else) for what are apparently 'everyone's' Games.
Feel free to contact us at letthegamesbegin@riseup.net
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