I heard him mention the book on Democracy Now the other day. Is it on
Bookshare? I guess I'll go and look. It does seem that every country that
hosts the Olympics does the same thing. They spend all this money so that
people can make money during the Olympics and in the process, the poor
people get moved out of the way and the needs of poor and working people are
put aside.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Olympic Ruminations
Last week I posted on Facebook that I was feeling pretty indifferent toward
the Olympics. I'm not the USA, USA type to begin with, and besides that I
was kind of feeling like the media was screaming at me that I *must* care,
which is a huge turn-off for me. Then the other day I started reading a book
entitled Brazil's Dance with the Devil written by Dave Zirin. That's when my
feelings evolved from indifference to something resembling horror and
perhaps even revulsion. Esentially, in the name of hosting the Olympics this
year and the World Cup in 2014, the powers that be basically tanked the
economy, shredded the social safety net and basically turned the whole
society upside down. But hey, who really cares about the actual people of
the country when there's money to be made by the people who really count? It
actually puts me in mind of those municipalities here in America who will
let bridges crumble and public buildings fall apart for supposed lack of
funds, but miraculously there's plenty of money on hand for building that
shiny new sports arena, because hey, the one the team's currently playing in
is almost, ee gads, 25 years old! Horror of horrors! Anyway, at this point,
if I see one more post about how great it is that the Olympics opening
ceremonies were audio described, I might throw my keyboard out the window.
Color me just plain disgusted.
Kevin LaRose
Anderson, IN
Email: kl1964@xxxxxxxxxx
