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Three years ago today the 2016 Rio Olympics began, representing a colossal human rights disaster that ultimately exposed years of violent Olympic gentrification, militarization, displacement, and grift to the world.

#NOlympicsAnywhere
The media made a huge deal out of the white elephants, but it was so much more than that.

The 2016 Olympics were an ethnic cleansing project.
We have a section on our website devoted to the subject of Rio 2016 where you can read about the spike in arrests, police killings, militarization, and the 77,000 people who were violently dispossessed of their homes to make way for real estate projects:

nolympicsla.com/resources/#rio
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