Why the Olympics?

Sport?

The Olympics is not a Sporting

Event

Ceremony, Spectacle and Ritual

Corporate Sponsorship

Privatisation of public space

Cultural Programming

Protest and Resistance

The rhetoric of militarisation

Forced Evictions

History of Protest

Role of the media

Accredited

Non-Accredited

Citizen Journalism?

Who is the media?

What gets reported?

What do you know about alternative narratives of the

games?