Video Compilation: Why Oppose the Olympics

Posted by admin on Dec 16th, 2009

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

Audio Compilation on Olympic opposition

Posted by admin on Dec 16th, 2009

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.

Protesters say they will keep torch and RCMP out of Six Nations

Posted by admin on Dec 14th, 2009

By Jessica Smith, Turtle Island News. December 15, 2009

The Olympic Torch is coming to Six Nations next week but a group opposing the run say they plan to protest it, but wont provide details and told the media to leave their meeting after claiming it was a public meeting. The sent out a declaration Monday claiming they would peacefully protest the torch run. Turtle Island News sources said the protesters plan to be at Highway 6, Middleport and along Chiefswood Road when the torch arrives, The group met at the old council House last Wednesday. They said they were opposed to the run and some claimed it was dividing the community.

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Security cameras here to stay, critic says

Posted by admin on Dec 9th, 2009

Frank Luba, The Province, Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Micheal Vonn, policy director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, does not believe Vancouver’s 100 new closed-circuit television cameras will be shelved after the conclusion of the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. Installation of the cameras at various downtown locations was announced Monday afternoon by the city and will take place over the next two months. The cameras are set to go live Feb. 1 and be shut down March 28.

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Is the Olympics’ use of Indigenous symbolism imprudent?

Posted by admin on Dec 9th, 2009

Christine O’Bonsawin, The Dominion, December 9, 2009

VICTORIA, BC—The inclusion of colonial narratives has forever been enshrined within the Olympic formula, and Indigenous peoples have long served the performance needs of nations whose histories rest in imperial conquest. Canada is no exception. On three occasions, including 1976 Montreal, 1988 Calgary and 2010 Vancouver, Canada has been afforded the opportunity to host the coveted Olympic Games. In each instance the inclusion of Indigenous cultures, and their complimentary images, has been a prominent countenance of the Games. However, this inclusion has not always been celebrated, nor unquestioningly accepted, by the Indigenous peoples.

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