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"The Olympics is the last thing we should be having in the middle of the #COVID19 pandemic...The Olympics...must be stopped."
-Dr. @aokima33 of Japan Women's Medical Association 医師・公益社団法人日本女医会理 HT @tkatsumi06j
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#Tokyo2020 Olympic power-brokers say they want to celebrate Olympic athletes. One of the International Olympic Committee's slogans is "Athletes First." Not sure how making Olympians swim through putrid water fits with those principles. @Quicktake
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#Tokyo2020 so toxic that sponsors are backing away. Toyota will not air Olympics-related TV commercials & CEO won't attend opening. "The Olympics is becoming an event that has not gained the public's understanding," the Daily Yomiuri reported HT @bobmackin reuters.com/lifestyle/spor…
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Nightmare scenario emerging: 2 athletes in #Tokyo2020 Olympic Village test positive for #COVID19, making 3 cases in total in Village (including 1 non-athlete). Also, 3 members of S. African soccer delegation tested positive. By @myhlee washingtonpost.com/sports/olympic…
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At anti-Olympics direct action attempting to deliver petition to cancel the Olympics to the 5-star Hotel Okura where the International Olympic Committee is staying, the police stopped them & forcibly dragged the protester into the park🎥 @galbraithian999
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Protesters went to the 5-star hotel where International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach is staying to present him with a petition to cancel the #Tokyo2020 Olympics. The policing of dissent was intense. 🧵by @galbraithian999 explains what happened...twitter.com/galbraithian99…
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[CW: violence, abuse]
The musical composer for the #Tokyo2020 Olympics' opening & closing ceremonies (Keigo Oyamada) revealed he brutally bullied & even tortured special needs students from elementary through high school. By @jakeadelstein @ChihiroKai1 japansubculture.com/japans-olympic…
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Here is video of protester shouting "You're a liar!" at International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach during an Olympic event in Tokyo
Bach responds, "Sorry, I cannot understand you. If you have something to say, write to me." 📹 @hangorinnokai
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"The Olympics is the last thing we should be having in the middle of the #COVID19 pandemic...The Olympics...must be stopped."
-Dr. @aokima33 of Japan Women's Medical Association 医師・公益社団法人日本女医会理 HT @waka__chang @tkatsumi06j
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@Ipsos To say that people in Japan🇯🇵are down on the #Tokyo2020 Olympics, is to make a massive understatement
This survey found that 78% of the country opposes staging the Olympics and 68% is uninterested in the Games ipsos.com/sites/default/…
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Global @Ipsos survey of 28 countries reveals 57% oppose staging #Tokyo2020 Olympics:
🇰🇷86% opposition
🇯🇵78%
🇦🇷69%
🇨🇦68%
🇧🇷68%
🇬🇧66%
🇲🇽65%
🇨🇳59%
🇦🇺59%
🇫🇷58%
🇺🇸48%
🇮🇳46%
🇮🇹42%
🇷🇺39%
🇹🇷29%
Full report: ipsos.com/sites/default/…
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"Protesters flooding the streets of Japan & the growing chorus across the world are right: #Tokyo2020 should be canceled. There’s no justification for holding it. But that’s also true of Games for decades...Cancel the Olympics—for good."
-@nataliesurely newrepublic.com/article/162952…
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There is so much anti-Olympics dissent bubbling up in Japan
This article describes four people seeking an injunction to cancel the #Tokyo2020 Olympics over #COVID19 concerns, asserting the Games violate their constitutionally guaranteed right to live english.kyodonews.net/tokyo/news/202…
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In Tokyo, anti-Olympics activists will protest International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach & "the Olympic Mafia" at the 5-star Hotel Okura where the IOC is staying #BachGoHome #バッハ帰れ [Protest starts at 13:45 Tokyo time] twitter.com/kojiskojis/sta…
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My piece on 5 myths & the Olympics for @washingtonpost
1) Host cities make money
2) Cities are eager to host the Games
3) Games are a path to riches for US athletes
4)Olympians have the right to free expression at Games
5) #Tokyo2020 is safe from #COVID19
washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-m…
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Anti-Olympics protest in Tokyo starts in a few hours in front of #Tokyo2020 Organizing Committee offices at Harumi Triton Square (6pm Tokyo time). Expect chants of #BachGoHome #バッハ帰れ Follow @hangorinnokai for details
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Wow, this is unprecedented. As International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach arrives in Japan, the hashtags #BachGoHome #バッハ帰れ are trending in the country. HT @daisy_ivy_ys
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"Many medical experts here do not think they are prepared [for #Tokyo2020]. You even have Japan's government advisors warning that the Olympics could lead to an explosion of cases here in Japan & push the medical system here past its brink."
-@selinawangtv
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There is a new petition circulating in Japan that demands the International Olympic Committee, Japanese Olympic Committee, & Japanese Government cancel the #Tokyo2020 Olympics 同キャンペーンの英語版をアップしました。海外への拡散をお願いいたします！ chng.it/bcRdSntW
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Here is footage of the moment when an anti-Olympics protester in Japan squirted water at the #OlympicTorchRelay to symbolically snuff out the #Tokyo2020 Olympic torch. Police swarmed her & she was detained. Ibaraka Prefecture. HT @emi_onuma1_16 twitter.com/parieruchan/st…
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🔥"The Games are less a sporting event than they are a scheme to transfer public wealth to private coffers―a budget-busting monstrosity that diverts billions of💰in public money away from actual public needs."
-@Travis_Waldron @HuffPostSports on #Tokyo2020
huffpost.com/entry/tokyo-ol…
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❓Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, claims, "Anti-Japanese people strongly oppose hosting the Olympics." Specifically, he cited the Communist Party & the Asahi Shimbun newspaper❓ #Tokyo2020 安倍前首相「反日的な人が五輪開催に強く反対」 mainichi.jp/articles/20210…
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@utsunomiyakenji The petition to cancel the #Tokyo2020 Olympics now has more than 435,000 signatures (more than any other change.org petition in Japan's history) 人々の命と暮らしを守るために、東京五輪の開催中止を求めます @TeamUtsuken change.org/p/cancel-the-t…
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government brazenly ignores @utsunomiyakenji's petition against the #Tokyo2020 Olympics. It had more than 350,000 signatures when he submitted it. 開示請求で発覚！35万人「五輪反対署名」を東京都が無視していた friday.kodansha.co.jp/article/191223 #政治 #東京オリンピック
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Kohei Jinno was evicted from his Tokyo home *twice* to make way for the Olympics: ahead of the 1964 Games & again before #Tokyo2020. Harrowing story on the how the Olympics shattered his community, & all he received was $1,500 to relocate. By @emlies16 reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
Political scientist. Author of NOlympians (@Fernpub) & Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (@VersoBooks). Poetry lover.