Two million free tickets for the rich. Corporate sponsors that profit from sweatshops, poison local people, and pollute the planet. Roads turned into exclusive highways for VIPs. Ground-to-air missiles on rooftops. Public spaces taken over, small businesses sidelined, local residents evicted. Police harassment of young people. Our rulers have turned the London 2012 Olympics into a showcase for class privilege, corporate power, and their so-called 'war on terror'. While cutting welfare, privatising the NHS, and bailing out the banks, they plan to use the Games to trumpet the message that austerity Britain is content and open for business. The Olympics have been hijacked by an arrogant elite of career politicians and millionaires. They have spent £12 billion of our money to broadcast their vision of a neoliberal world run by the corporations and the rich. We do not consent to austerity, privilege, and profiteering. We oppose total policing and the militarisation of London. We reject Cameron and Coe's corporate Games.
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