This week we cover the penultimate episode of Season 1 as Eros goes into lock down and the malicious corporate experiment takes shape.

@nolympicsla debunk the feel good fuzzies of the LA84 Foundation, often perceived as a benign altruistic youth sports non-profit but which is – after some serious scrutiny – really an unaccountable non-profit who merely claims to promote social justice and the empowering of marginalized communities. In practice, they’re more active in whitewashing LA than they are in making it more equitable. They’re massive investors in real estate giants/slumlords like Blackstone and Oaktree Capital, and their work has been used to leverage the 2028 Olympics. To learn more about the LA84 Foundation, including a shocking look at their tax filings, check out the blog at nolympicsla.com. ‘Rings of Hell’ segment originally produced with @knockdotla: 11/20/18

The Olympics pose monumental risks to everyone unfortunate enough to be in their orbit, and this is true especially for workers – from the workers who help make the games happen (construction, service industry, volunteers) to the athletes themselves. Labor exploitation and the Olympics are synonymous, and @nolympicsla has charted this history of rampant harm – everything from wage theft to psychological, emotional, and sexual abuse – in the modern Olympics, even the beloved 1984 games. This week NOlympics LA is joined by members of the @dsa_la Labor and Healthcare committees to explore how the Olympics are always sold as being “good for labor,” while the receipts show the reality couldn’t be further from the truth.

This week Rob Quan from @UnrigLA joins us to go in depth on LA's redistricting process and how things will change this year.

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The crew is on the run in a stolen Martian warship, offered safe haven by Fred Johnson they make the call to head for Tycho Station. Detective Miller finally unravels the mystery of Julie Mao's disappearance, but loses everything in the process.

We chat with Erin Wisti about what's been going on at Echo Park Lake, cover some improving COVID numbers, and dig into the nascent recall campaign against LA DA George Gascon

Episode 3: “Rings of Hell III: The Movement Against The IOC” -- This week @nolympicsla explore Olympic resistance in both a city that was ravaged by the Games (Rio 2016) and a city that thwarted an Olympic bid (Boston 2024). Despite some local differences, the fight is against the same notoriously corrupt and unaccountable private institution: the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which creates heightened militarization, displacement, and authoritarianism in the name of extracting profit. The struggle against this form of neoliberal lotteryism is both a hyper-local and transnational one. Please enjoy a conversation with members of Rio on Watch, No Boston Olympics, and NOlympics LA. ‘Rings of Hell’ segment originally produced with @knockdotla: 10/16/18

For this episode @nolympicsla invited scholar and former Olympic athlete Jules Boykoff to call in and give us a broad look at how the modern Olympics came into being, how their power is structured, and how they’ve evolved over the decades, growing more insidious at every turn. The Olympic machine has been around since the late 1800s and operated as a sort of sideshow. To this day the IOC still feels like it’s being led by carnival barkers trying to hook the next gullible sucker, and this conversation tracks how they’ve managed to stay alive and where they’re potentially vulnerable. To learn more about Jules Boykoff check out julesboykoff.org. ‘Rings of Hell’ segment originally produced with @knockdotla: 10/23/18

Episode 6: “Rings of Hell VI: The Humiliation of the Will” -- Hitler didn’t want the Olympics until Goebbels convinced him the 1936 Berlin Games could be a massive boom for Nazi propaganda. Then the Olympic torch relay was born. In this episode @nolympicsla explore how fascists have co-opted and manipulated the platform of mega sports through the annals of history – whether it’s Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco with soccer and the Olympics – or more recent despots or power-hungry individuals who use the games to enhance their power. It turns out the pageantry and bright shiny object-ness of mega sport gives bad people a tremendous amount of cover. ‘Rings of Hell’ segment originally produced with @knockdotla: 10/31/18

Did you know that LA isn’t a sanctuary city, in name or in spirit? Even if the city was a true sanctuary city with real protections, any Olympics on US soil poses huge risks for immigrants. That’s because #LA28 is designated a National Special Security Event (NSSE), which gives the Department of Homeland Security (ICE, CBP, NSA, all the bad dudes) the express ability to coordinate with local law enforcement. Sound like a terrible idea? It is! This week @nolympicsla are joined by members of the @dsa_la Immigration Justice Committee to discuss all the ways the current Democrat establishment in LA already fall short of their pseudo-progressive pro-immigrant messaging and how the NSSE – compounded with already wildly militarized local law enforcement – poses a nightmare for communities across the Southland. ‘Rings of Hell’ segment originally produced with @knockdotla: 11/8/18