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2016 Olympics: What Rio Doesn’t Want The World To See
like payback said, vancouver has been "rich washing" for decades. i've heard some crazy stories from expo 88 era. before the olympics they cracked down on the poor. often ostensibly rounding them up and sending them to the suburbs (this is fairly normal procedure for cops who "catch" binners/panhandlers in richer areas: they "arrest" them, drive them out to the suburbs, and just leave them there).
http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/10/14/OlympicsHomelessLaws/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/03/vancouver-winter-olympics-homeless-row
They did the same thing in China, they did the same thing in Russia. I'm not aware of any 'rich-washing' that was done in Vancouver but there may have been some here. They definitely promised that a lot of the housing they built would be for low-income renters and now the Olympics is over high price tags have been put on the units and they've gone to solely the rich.
Carts of Darkness: homeless men racing shopping carts
Tags for this video have been changed from 'carts, shopping carts, homeless, men, extreme sport, racing, national film board, nfb' to 'shopping carts, homeless, men, binners, extreme sport, racing, national film board, nfb' - edited by calvados