By BOB MACKIN, 24 hours, Jan 11, 2009

All levels of government have had to come to the financial rescue of the 2010 Winter Olympics, leaving you on the hook for the tab. Once upon a time, when Vancouver 2010 was an itty-bitty bid they were called the “Sea to Sky Games.” Then the International Olympic Committee voted July 2, 2003 in Prague and president Jacques Rogge declared “Vonn-KOO-vah!” had won. Hello, “Canada’s Games.” Years turned to months and months turned to weeks. Now we count the days until the “Bailout Games.”

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By Geoff Dembicki, 8 Jan 2010, TheTyee.ca

On June 16, 2006, 1,000 Dutch soccer fans were forced to strip to their underwear in Stuttgart, Germany. They’d waited in 25 minute lines, shuffling step by step towards the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion. At the door, stern FIFA World Cup officials ordered them to remove their bright orange lederhosen. One Dutch man threw his over a fence. A stadium steward approached his waiting friends, likely tossing the confiscated pants into a rubbish-filled storage bin with all the others. Bare-legged Dutch fans ambled to their seats, leg hairs bristling from the draft.

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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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