A very functional city.

Breaking news and exclusive from @thewrap: Casey Wasserman's top advisor Tanja Olana - who has been at the Olympics LA28 for nearly a decade - has resigned the Olympics org. She resigned this week after Wasserman said he was staying put.

"best practices"

Join us at the StopTheGondola Town Hall to learn more about the negative impacts of the LAART gondola & discuss transit alternatives that would better serve our communities! 🗓️ Saturday, September 14th, 2024 ⏰ 2:00pm-4:00pm 🌳 Alpine Recreation Center 📍817 Yale St, Los Angeles

At the outset of COVID-19, California introduced a shelter system that provides private rooms to unhoused people. But many likened it to a prison, choosing encampments instead. Learn about LA's efforts to move people off the streets and those pushing back. bit.ly/46G7rU8

Paris 2024 organizers claim their Olympic Games will be the greenest and most socially responsible yet, but is that Gameswashing? Watch a new documentary by UBC Journalism’s Global Reporting Program on the Paris 2024 Summer Games for People and Power - Al Jazeera. bit.ly/3Lqx2Xe

Is the suggestion here that they just sent people on our dime and forgot to tell them to take notes

Read this. It's wild. Imagine a major US city that just opens itself up fully to weird Swiss/EU aristocratic criminals with no questions asked. Also DHS will run rampant.

Re: LA's Olympic National Special Security Event (NSSE) - the longest in US history. It started earlier this year. 4+ years of open collaboration between feds and local law enforcement. torched.la/why-did-la28-h… nolympicsla.com/nsse

It doesn't have to be like this.

WHAT

NOlympics LA This now has a council file. cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkcon…

HILLSIDE VILLA - JUDGE RULES 2021 RENT INCREASES OF OVER 100% WERE ILLEGAL IN VIOLATION OF STATE LAW. Hillside Villa Tenants Association L.A. Tenants Union CCED #ChinatownIsNotForSale

Botz offered us a “deal” that would have kept these evictions hanging over our heads for six years, and kept us from fighting them. Why? Because when we fight, we win!

LA wants to replicate the financial success of its 1984 Olympics — but at whose expense? Kurtis Lee reports for The New York Times. bit.ly/4euzWXn