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Olympics, politics and me

by Virginia Moffatt | Feature | September 2012

Peace campaigner Virginia Moffatt is (partially) seduced by the Olympics

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For an Olympic Peace

by Pat Gaffney | Feature | September 2012

Pat Gaffney surveys faith groups' Olympic activism

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Just 3% of Olympic cycling arrests result in convictions

by Timothy Bidon | News | April 2013

Five of the 182 cyclists arrested at last July’s Critical Mass bike ride in east London (PN 2549) were c

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Bravo Virginia!

Letter | October 2012

Memories of the Olympic Games, 1948 and 2012.

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Mind games

Letter | July-August 2012
Jim Huggan, Knodishall

ImageThe Olympic Shenanigans reminds me of an Olympic year in t ...

Mark Perryman, Why the Olympics Aren’t Good For Us, And How They Can Be

by Gabriel Carlyle | Review | July-August 2012

OR Books 2012; 140pp;£8

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Security Games

by Kevin Blowe | Feature | July-August 2012

Community legal observers – one response to the Olympic police operation

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We are all being ASBO’d

by PN | Blog entry | 3 May, 2012

Simon Moore, the first person to be served with an ASBO relating to the Oympics, was in court again today. 

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Occupy the marshes

News in Brief | May 2012

Six Occupy activists were arrested at an Olympics occupation on 10 April. ...

Olympics for Peace?

News in Brief | May 2012

At the end of March, Christian peace groups Pax Christi and Westminster Justice and Peace wrote an open letter to the organising committee for the London Olympic ga ...