Subscribe to Dollars & Sense magazine. Recent articles related to the financial crisis. The Beijing Olympics by the NumbersWe just posted a web-only article on the Beijing Olympics that explains why global corporations are salivating while more than 1.5 million people have been displaced. The Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions has documented the massive displacement that "mega-events" like the Olympic Games regularly cause, but the Beijing games have far outpaced its predecessors.Please also check out Julie Hollar's excellent article, Carrying a Torch for Anti-China Protests, from the most recent issue of Extra!. "For once, mainstream media have found an anti-government protest to embrace," Hollar explains. The same media outlets that barely registered antiwar protests over the past few years fell over themselves to cover the most minute details of the pro-Tibet protests interrupting the Olympic torch relay. Why? Because China is an "official enemy." (The whole issue is great--but Extra! always is, ioho.) Labels: Beijing, COHRE, Extra/FAIR, Olympics |