“No Olympics on stolen Native land” has become the battle cry for Indigenous resistance to the Vancouver Olympics by Hillary Bain Lindsay. The Dominion

As the Vancouver Olympics approach, the building of highways, condos, and resorts have accelerated on land that Indigenous activists say is unceded territory.  The official website of the 2010 Olympics touts the “historic” and “unprecedented” participation of First Nations in the Vancouver games. According to the site, the collaboration between the Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) and Aboriginals will include increased opportunities to “showcase art, language, traditions, history and culture” and “promote skills development and training related to the games.” This kind of “trinket and bead exchange” is beside the point, says Kanahus Pellkey of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation. “We’re still fighting for our homeland.” “No Olympics on stolen Native land” has become the battle cry for Indigenous resistance to the Games — resistance that has found allies in those angered by what they call the devastating social and environmental implications of the Olympics– and has drawn its resonance from the fact that much of B.C. remains unceded Indigenous territory.

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No Olympics On Stolen Unceded Native Land, Monday, March 19, 2007

The International Indigenous Youth Network stands in full confrontation with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) and the Canadian Government and corporations supporting the Olympic 2010 Winter Games. We hold the Canadian government, the British Columbian (BC) and Canadian Judicial systems working in conjunction with VANOC responsible for death of Indigenous Elder and Warrior Harriet Nahanee[1], and acknowledge her death and the persecution of Indigenous dissent as a direct result of the Canadian Governments objective to drive out opposition in order to make room for the Olympics 2010.

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Native Warriors Claim Responsibility for taking Olympic Flag

March 7th, 2007 Coast Salish Territory [Vancouver, Canada]

In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 6th, 2007, we removed the Olympic Flag from its flag-pole at Vancouver City Hall.We pried open the access panel on the pole with a crowbar, using a bolt-cutter, cut the metal cable/halyard inside, causing the flag to fall to the ground.

We claim this action in honor of Harriet Nahanee, our elder-warrior, who was given a death sentence by the BC courts for her courageous stand in defending Mother Earth.

We stand in solidarity with those fighting against the destruction caused by the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

No Olympics on Stolen Land!

Native Warrior Society

VANCOUVER – A community is in mourning following news of the death of a great-grandmother who fought to defend aboriginal rights and the environment. Activist Harriet Nahanee died at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver on Saturday, February 24, one month after she was sentenced to fourteen days in jail for protesting the destruction of a wetlands for a highway bypass.

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Protest Against Olympic ‘Countdown Clock’
Monday Feb.12th @ 12 Noon
Vancouver Art Gallery

On Monday February 12th, VANOC (Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee) will begin a 3-year ‘countdown clock’ to the 2010 winter Olympics. Let’s stand together and show the world there is NO TIME for the Olympics!

Speakers and drummers from Secwepemc, St’at’imc and Lil’wat, Native Youth Movement, Anti-Poverty Committee, No One Is Illegal, DERA, Wild Earth, SF-PIRG and others.

Join us in standing together to protest against homelessness, ecological destruction, corporate invasion of native lands, huge profits for corporations, massive public debt, increased police repression and all other crimes brought about by the games. Organized by the Anti-Olympics Coalition antiolympics@hotmail.com