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1980: Olympic Village First and Prison Second

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

This is a really great article on anti-prison organizing...don't forget to click on the link in this article so you can see the poster made by Stop the Olympic Prison. Some lesson on protest from the 1980 Olympics Michael A. Kroll Monday, March 31, 2008 The hoopla in San Francisco surrounding the forthcoming Olympic torch runner and the promised demonstrations focused on China's human rights abuses reminded me of an earlier Olympic protest against human rights abuses - except those abuses were far closer to home. In 1980, the Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid, N.Y. As the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) contemplated housing the large number of athletes, they went to Congress asking for federal money to build temporary quarters. Congress responded that the federal government was not in the business of providing public money for private enterprises, and advised that if the committee could suggest a permanent public after-use, then the money might be forthcoming...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).