Zines, crowdfunding, black clothes all used as evidence of being “Antifa,” convicted of “domestic terrorism” & sentenced for 50-100 years. Hope you are paying attention to Prairieland. This is how they will come for all of us.

It’s that time again! Rejoice and resist with us at the Echo Park Really, Really Free Market: 📆Sunday, June 28th ⏰11am—2pm 📍Echo Park Lake (corner of Park Ave & Echo Park Lake Ave near the picnic tables)

We will be tabling here with zines and our new FUCK FIFA/FUERA FIFA stickers 👀

The sweeps in Ktown and the police harassment have gotten relentless. At night, we see so many more people sleeping on sidewalks with just a blanket. No tents, no shelter, no safety. But during the day, they've become harder to find. One couple we know has gotten pushed all the way across Ktown.

Olympic organizers are working with the Trump admin to put on a tournament at Trump's golf club in Los Angeles alongside the Summer 2028 Games. This should go without saying, but the Olympics are not supposed to be about helping Trump make money.

Of course LA's leadership is more interested in spending billions on the LAPD and on hosting the World Cup and the '28 Olympics because of all those sweet kickbacks from real estate developers. It's even more incentive for downplaying disasters while gentrifying communities at gunpoint.

"Paul Krekorian, head of Los Angeles’ Office of Major Events, was driving to SoFi Stadium for the U.S. soccer team’s opening match against Paraguay when he found himself stuck in a traffic jam." What does it say about LA when our own officials aren't taking transit to these games?

My latest World Cup dispatch: a tourist-filled city in the midst of hosting a 39-day megaevent is blanketed with smoke from a major structure fire that has burned for three days. And the mayor *just* declared an emergency

Hmm. I thought the World Cup wasn't supposed to impact regular @metrolosangeles.bsky.social service. But the 212 isn't running between SoFi Stadium and the 2 nearest Metro stations for 4 hours when today and Sunday's matches wrap up. Isn't this the exact bus we want fans to take to the train?!

fun and games for rich people only (those who can afford tickets)

LA: where we can tell you when the next World Cup game is on but we can’t tell you when the next bus is coming 😬

Senegal captain Kalidou Koulibaly speaks out publicly on the US travel ban that curtails fans from his country—and others—from supporting their team at the 2026 World Cup. “Every team can have their people, so I don’t understand why people from Africa cannot.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...

Activists in Los Angeles from @nolympicsla.bsky.social bring their messages—"FIFA Brings ICE" & "Red Card US Empire"—to a World Cup fan zone in LA www.instagram.com/p/DZg1TqhG_o...

“Visa bans, the lack of protection for LGBTQI fans, & the rise of authoritarian practices in the United States have shattered all hopes of a rights-respecting," World Cup said @andreaflorence.bsky.social of @sportrightsall.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/acti...

LA28 organizers & Casey Wasserman are ramping up their shameless suck-up to Trump: “Organizers of the 2028 LA Olympics are working with the Trump administration to put on a tournament at the Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles right before the Summer Games.” www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Iran v. New Zealand ended around 8pm in Los Angeles. At 10:07pm, Iran players were on a bus bound for the airport, where they'd fly back to Tijuana. World Cup organizers wouldn't let them stay and recover. This is completely unacceptable. FIFA should not be a political wing of the US Government.

“Fascist FIFA" Seen outside of Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.

Anti-World Cup posters seen in Manchester, UK

Protest stencils painted on the FIFA headquarters in Zurich this week.

Pasteups seen in Mexico City during the protests during the opening game of the World Cup.

“FIFA steals & plunders… Get organized!” Seen in front of Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.

I'm doing a lot of work in bike infrastructure lately, and trying to make LA a safer place to ride around the LA28 Olympics. I wrote about what's going on here: medium.com/@peterabraha...

LA is like "We can totally do the Olympics again with barely building any additional infrastructure, no problem" and then when the World Cup is here all the electronic freeway signs start saying "don't even fucking think about driving on Monday."

After this abhorrent unacceptable reception of World Cup athletes, referees and spectators, I wonder how soon the world will decide to boycott the LA Olympics. It would be completely understandable. No one deserves this racist discriminatory treatment.

LA is proposing tech-company-produced air taxis for the Olympics and it is going to be NUTS when we get a deep sea submersible situation but instead it is viscera all over Wilshire

Today outside "the Los Angeles Stadium": Abolish FIFA. Reclaim the Game.

We visited the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum FIFA Fan Fest tonight.

"Disruptions & educational interventions are the name of the game for us," said anti-World Cup protester Eric Sheehan of @nolympicsla.bsky.social. Protest is coming to numerous World Cup host cities. My latest w/ @edgeofsports.bsky.social @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/acti...

We visited the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum FIFA Fan Fest tonight.

Today outside "the Los Angeles Stadium": Abolish FIFA. Reclaim the Game.

Spotted a mile from SoFi Stadium before USA-Paraguay: snipers on the rooftops of Inglewood businesses while kids played soccer on the street below

Spotted a mile from SoFi Stadium before USA-Paraguay: snipers on the rooftops of Inglewood businesses while kids played soccer on the street below

“Angelenos love football, and we have a long history of being a football-loving city. But the people who run FIFA cannot be trusted to run major events because they use it to empower themselves and their friends, and to wash the reputations of state actors like the U.S. and Israel.” —Eric, NOlympics

“We’re calling to abolish FIFA. Football belongs to the people.” As the World Cup kicks off in Los Angeles, residents in North American host cities already battling gentrification & displacement prepare for surge of militarized policing & state violence, August Chun reports.

The fact that we can't find the bid books on LA28 or city websites reflects: 1) the lack of transparency and accountability around these Olympics overall 2) that Olympic bid books are always works of speculative fiction that nobody in power feels beholden to once their city has been chosen to host

The actual answer? Neither LA28 nor the City of LA has made the bid books publicly accessible... But I uploaded them all to Olympics Watch a few years ago: olympicswatch.org/2021/01/21/a...

At this World-Cup-themed networking event tonight, the panel facilitator asked: "where can people get a copy of that [LA 2028] bid?" The panelist repping Mayor Bass' office answered: "I have no idea." 🤦🤦🤦

This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...

And… the FBI confirms the military trainings that kept everyone up until 2 am are simply part of World Cup preparations 😵‍💫 “With the upcoming FIFA Games, upcoming Super Bowl, and upcoming Olympics, there may be additional training with additional partners, but we conduct training on a regular basis”

Sports have been used to pull people apart, as well. Did Silver never see "Olympia", Leni Riefenstahl's documentary about the 1936 Olympics, a celebration of the 3rd Reich? But sure, sportswash fascists. Let's see how that turns out.

for 2.5 years, whenever an international athlete has been denied entry to the United States to compete in an event, someone in the Trump admin has waved it away and said "don't worry, we'll make sure this doesn't happen with the World Cup or Olympics" well, the World Cup is here, and it's happening

Man if this is what's happening now, it's going to be so much worse during the 2028 LA Olympics. Even if you're the biggest sports fan on the planet, why on earth would you want to come here

The World Cup referee from Somalia was picked by FIFA 2 months ago and still could not enter the U.S. with a valid visa. This is so farcical from a World Cup host and has potential to get even worse for the 2028 LA Olympics when bona fide people from every country are coming.

NEWS: SoFi Stadium cashiers, dishwashers, cooks, bartenders, concessions workers, and food attendants voted 96% to authorize a strike, just a week out from when the stadium is set to host its first World Cup game www.huffpost.com/entry/unite-...

Remember that time less than 100 years ago, when the olympics were held in a nation run by a fascist dictator hell bent on white nationalist hate-mongering and oppression of both his own people and anyone ‘different’ to his supporters? Who’s looking forward to the World Cup??

It isn't the world cup if the world isn't invited Same with the Olympics The 1% want to cut the fans out and own every top sporting event.

"a country that doesn't want to welcome supporters from qualifying teams shouldn't be allowed to host the World Cup." BBC News - 'A World Cup for them not us': Fans' anger at US travel bans and visa restrictions www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If he's fucking with an NBA game to spite a city that has hated him for decades, I can't imagine what he'll do to LA/Hollywood for the 2028 Olympics.