Posted by admin on Oct 5th, 2009
*NOII ANTI-OLYMPICS EXTRAVAGANZA!**
The Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Winter Olympics are just around the corner, it’s time to take some action! While governments and corporations continue to steal unceded indigenous land, spend billions of dollars in rights repressing security measures, destroy the environment, criminalize poverty, and make a profit out of all this; people all over are resisting! It’s time to join the struggle against these colonial, capitalist, greedy and repressive games!
Rhizome Café 317 East Broadway. Friday October 23, 2009 6:30 pm
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Posted by admin on Sep 24th, 2009
Posted by admin on Sep 24th, 2009
This Magazine, Jasmine Rezaee, September 24, 2009
The Ancient Olympic Games were held in Greece every four years and celebrated culture as much as sports. The founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin, placed an emphasis on culture as well, making it the “second pillar†of the Olympics, equal to sports. In the early 20th Century, the second pillar was honoured by hosting arts competitions that involved medals and featured art inspired by sport. In 1954 the art competitions were abandoned, leaving the second pillar’s future uncertain.
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Posted by admin on Sep 17th, 2009
A petition and campaign has been initiated by the DTES Power of Women group against the City of Vancouver, VANOC, RCMP, and VPD in their attempts to change next year’s historic and sacred Feb 14 March for Murdered and Missing Women in order to ensure ‘flow of Olympic traffic’ down Hastings Street. The Power of Women group is based in the DTES neighbourhood and its membership is composed of women living in poverty who have experienced and survived sexual violence and mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional abuse.
Please sign the online petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/feb14/petition.html
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Posted by admin on Sep 16th, 2009
By Jeff Lee, Canwest News Service, September 16, 2009
VANCOUVER – Civil-rights activists say they’re worried police are infiltrating anti-Olympics groups, with a plan to influence or direct illegal activities that would justify a crackdown during the 2010 Winter Games. Robert Holmes, the president of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, said he tried twice without success to get the Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit (ISU) to promise not to place “agents provocateurs” in positions of power within anti-Olympics groups.
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