January 5, 2010 in Briarpatch By Jane Kirby

Is summit-hopping a dying tactic or the next Olympic sport? Ever since tens of thousands of people converged on the streets of Seattle and successfully shut down the World Trade Organization in November 1999, convergences have been the tactic of choice for confronting global capitalism. It is no surprise, then, that those who see the upcoming Olympics in Vancouver as one more attempt by state and corporate elites to expand their own interests at the expense of the general population have called for a convergence from February 10 to 15, 2010.

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We have just completed several posters highlighting the crimes of various 2010 Olympic Sponsors. Please see our website for posters that you can put up in your city! Look out General Electric, CTV, Dow and Coke- we are onto you. We have also completed the flyers against Hudsons Bay Company and Royal Bank of Canada. We encourage you to print off the flyer, fold them in half and sneak copies into clothes at the Bay.  We encourage you to keep distributing flyers outside the Royal Bank in the lead up to the Games.

Compiled statements of No One Is Illegal, Native 2010 Resistance, Olympic Resistance Network, Council of Canadians, Stopwar.ca

Statement by No One Is Illegal, 2009

While the 2010 Olympics are still a short time away, many are well aware of the devastating impact they are having on our communities. From traditional Indigenous territories to the impoverished Downtown Eastside (DTES), and from migrant workers to low-income families, thousands are being evicted, displaced, and exploited.  It is undeniable that the Olympics is causing the devastation of the environment, creating homelessness, perpetuating the theft of Indigenous lands, exploiting migrant labour, forcing greater privatization, accruing massive public debt, and resulting in increased state criminalization.

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1)  2010 Olympic Impacts in Vancouver – Update
2)  Why Resist 2010
3)  Native Youth Movement: No 2010 Winter Olympics on Native Land
4) Native 2010 Resistance Statement
5)  NOII Anti-Olympics Speakers Corner
6)  Five Ring Circus documentary online!
7)  Real News Network on 2010 Controversies
8)  Olympic Torch Relay from Indigenous Traditional Perspective
9)  Sutikalh Camp set up to stop ski and recreation resort
10)  DTES Womens Housing March
11) Alaina Tom of Statimc Native Youth Movement
12) Helen Lenskyj and Gord Hill on the Olympics industry.
13) Chris Shaw, Garth Mullins, and Harsha Walia on myths and realities.
14) Carol Martin on impacts in the Downtown Eastside.
15) Amy Goodman detained about Olympics, Marla Renn detained.
16) Olympic security and repression with David Eby, Harsha Walia, Alissa Westergard-Thorpe, Matt Hern, Jeff Derksen, and David Dennis

For videos on Olympic resistance, visit http://olympicresistance.net/Videos and http://no2010.com/node/287

Helen Lenskyj on the Olympic Industry. Part 1 and Part 2.
Privatized Profits and Socialized Debt, talk by Chris Shaw here.
Dustin Johnson and others of Native 2010 Resistance, here.
They love everything about Indigenous Peoples except the people, here.
Extensive documentary on the Sun Peaks struggle here.
Interview with Melissa Elliott of Young Onkwehonwe United, here.
Audio collage of Vancouver Downtown Eastside, here.
Downtown Eastside Elders Council at Defenders of the Land, here.
Defending civil liberties during the Olympics with BCCLA and Pivot, here.
Law and the Olympics, talk by David Eby here.