#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, UCL AL #331 - Ecology, Olympic Games 2024: Paris obtains the gold medal for the rampage in the 93 (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 In Seine-Saint-Denis, as work for the 2024 Olympics progresses, several

collectives are campaigning against the invasion of their territory, the
evictions of squats, the destruction of places of biodiversity and the security
and racist gentrification of 93. - --- The atmosphere is heavy in a period where
on the one hand the extreme right is gaining ground and on the other, the average
earth temperature is constantly climbing. However, we are preparing for the
"Olympic Fascisation" which will take place in 2024 in Paris. ---- In the name of
the Olympic order, the public authorities ransacked several green lungs of
Seine-Saint-Denis (93) to implement the model of a city colonized by a religion :
sport. We say religion because the modern Olympic Games defended by the
International Olympic Committee (IOC), from the staging of Nazi aesthetics during
the Berlin Games of 1936 to the present day, have always been thought of as such.
In a speech broadcast in 1935, Pierre de Coubertin (founder of the IOC) affirmed
that modern Olympism was a religion and that the athlete exalts his fatherland,
his race and his flag.

After the Second World War, the famous ceremony of passing the torch conveyed the
political and moral ideals of the myth of Prometheus. However, Hegel had already
shown that there were neither morals nor ideals in Prometheus, who only taught
men cunning and the mastery of nature. Long before Coubertin's elitist vision of
sport, in La Cité Antique (1864), the historian Fustel de Coulanges insisted on
the importance of the symbolism of the sacred fire in Indo-European religions [1].

Rampage 2024: Not very green Olympics
Perverted sporting ideals
Today, this symbol of sacred fire becomes a weapon of massive control that we
underestimate: the digital. Through the massive deployment of surveillance
cameras and the predictive use of urban data to model future Olympic Games, it
ensures total control.

The (Olympic) greenwashing continues, in the 93 as everywhere in the world,
claiming that its strategy is liberal and ecological while it is draconian and
ecocidal, reinforced by the appearance of new strategies of digital control and
surveillance [2]. While simple and low-consumption technologies should be
favored, no serious limits are imposed on the accumulation of new technologies:
drones, facial recognition, algorithmic video surveillance, etc. The omnipresence
of the Olympic spectacle via new technologies aims to dominate the consciences of
individuals. This domination will leave the field open to the repression of
migrants and Muslims in the territory of 93, the first victims of security
greenwashing always being racialized people.

Thus, on the Olympic sites, companies resort to the concealed work of
undocumented migrants, a form of modern slavery that can go as far as death.
Recently, yet another scandal revealed the exploitation of dozens of undocumented
migrants by a multitude of subcontractors with mafia overtones [3].

The year of Olympism at school
For schoolchildren, "the year of Olympism, from school to university" is firmly
rooted in the minds of young people. The program is changed in order to
"discover" the modern disciplines of the Olympic Games. Dedicated educational
content such as the tools of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee
(CNOSF) and the IOC aim to radically sportivize youth as part of a national plan
to promote Olympic values [4].

Some associations or collectives engaged in the fight against the 2024 Olympics
The Olympic ideology has already begun to recruit young people until 2024. A
workforce that will be used to promote new neighborhoods accelerating
gentrification through the Games. The renovation of several sports facilities,
the construction of new housing and new transport lines constitute the major part
of the worksites that ransack the 93. There is no doubt that the ransacking, as
well as the potential impacts on our environment, can be serious. . The Saccage
2024 collective uses this term because it is indeed a vast operation of deep
mutilation of the popular 93, allowed by the Olympic Games while ignoring the
history and the values of this territory. The imposed projects are in the logic
of before the health crisis, the one that leads to the privatization of
everything, to an irremediable climatic and social catastrophe [5].

Most of the unions have aligned themselves with the point of view of the Olympic
ideology. It is to be regretted that only Solidaires and the CNT refused to sign
the Olympic charter. Thanks to the collectives of 93, we had several victories to
celebrate against the Olympics. The first is the struggle of the Jardins
d'Aubervilliers collective regarding the training pool. More recently, the
victory of the collective Our Park is not for sale (NPPNAV) and the National
Movement for the Fight for the Environment in Seine-Saint-Denis (MNE93) against
the construction of a bowling alley planned at Parc Georges-Valbon (only Natura
2000 reserve in IDF). And finally, the massive mobilization in Spain against
Catalonia's candidacy for the 2030 Winter Games. These victories show that the
fight is paying off!

But the list of battles still to be waged is long : the motorway interchange in
the Pleyel district, the Olympic village in Île-Saint-Denis, the ZAC Plaine
Saulnier and the Olympic aquatic center, the hospital-university campus
Grand-Paris- North to Saint-Ouen, the Grand Paris express and its stations [6].
Seine-Saint-Denis becomes an Olympic territory but the struggles continue
unabated despite the massive evictions from the squats occupied by the most
precarious: undocumented immigrants, artists, male and female students...

For now, the fight is far from over. The chances of a strike occurring in August
2024 during the Games are slim. But let's dream of a spark that ignites the
social movement ! Let's mobilize massively against the ecocide Olympics and their
racist and security abuses. And "this will only be the beginning ! as our Kurdish
comrades say.

Muhsin (UCL Paris north-east)

To validate

[1]"Fukushima, the Nazis and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics", Satoshi Ukai, Monday.am,
January 3, 2019.

[2]"Collective complaint against the technopolice", laquadrature.net, May 24, 2022.

[3]"Shovelless fraud on the Olympics sites", L'Humanité, July 4, 2022.

[4]2024, the Olympic Games did not take place, Marc Pérélman, Éditions du Détour,
2021.

[5]"What are the Olympic Games and why are we against it", Collectif Saccage
2024, online at saccage2024.noblogs.org.

[6]"2024 Olympics, rampage accelerator", Youth For Climate, 2021.

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