Posted by admin on Aug 19th, 2008
The Edmonton Journal. Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Canadian officials surveying the Beijing Olympics must be paying special attention to the myriad protests and criticisms — some overdrawn and overwrought — that have dogged China before and during the Games. If they are wise, our observers should fight the temptation to feel smugly superior. Learning from the mistakes of the Chinese leadership would be far more appropriate. For better or worse, the global focus attending the Olympics provides an irresistible platform for anyone with a grievance against the host country. And while Canada has considerable bragging rights compared with China in the areas of free speech, democracy, religious freedom and other fundamental liberties, we are not without our shiny spots.
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Posted by admin on Aug 18th, 2008
August 8, 2008. New York Times By ANDREW JACOBS
BEIJING — Li Tianchao is an itinerant worker who has spent his adult life toiling long hours, living in bleak worksite dormitories and chasing the next construction job from boomtown to boomtown. A no-nonsense, weatherworn man, he is not quick to grouse. But as he waited for a train to take him back to his hometown north of the capital, Mr. Li, 50, could not help but feel wistful. “The Olympics have finally come to China, and I won’t even be here,†he said, lounging on a woven plastic sack stuffed with his possessions. He glanced up at the “Participate in the Olympics, Enjoy the Fun†banner above his head and shrugged.
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Posted by admin on Aug 17th, 2008
– No Olympics on stolen land!
– Disrupt and abolish the G8 and SPP
– Active support and solidarity for local struggles of self-determination, justice and dignity*
[August 2008 – OTTAWA] In the year 2010, three major international events will be taking place in the Canadian state: the Winter Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler (between February 12-28); the G8 Leader’s Summit in Huntsville, Ontario (most likely in June or July); and the meeting of the NAFTA leaders as part of the so-called “Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)” (date and location not yet known).
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Posted by admin on Jul 25th, 2008
==> Opening night reception disrupted
==> No Smooth Sailing for PNWER Elites: Marina Entrance Blocked by Activists
A group of activists blocked access to the Westin Bayshore marina on Wednesday July 23 to protest the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER) summit. In doing so, they prevented PNWER delegates from boarding a 190-person luxury boat tour of the Vancouver harbour. Approximately 10 people stood with a banner reading People Not Profit! and prevented access to the luxury yacht though the public boardwalk.
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Posted by admin on Jul 13th, 2008
CONFRONT THEIR ECONOMIC REGION: Demonstration Opposing the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER)
Sunday July 20th 5 pm. Westin Bayshore Hotel. 1601 Bayshore Drive (two blocks east of Denman and one block north of West Georgia)
From Sunday July 20th to Friday July 25th, the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER) Summit will be meeting in Vancouver. (check out www.pnwer.org) The PNWER is a northwest US-Canada forum to encourage global economic competitiveness” and like other current regional and national free trade frameworks like NAFTA, SPP, and TILMA, it is all about furthering an agenda of corporate free trade, border militarization, privatization and theft of indigenous land and resources, ecological destruction, repression in the name of national security, impoverishment and displacement, and cooperation in war and occupation.
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