Video: Eight Reasons to Oppose the 2010 Olympics
Posted by admin on May 16th, 2009
Mohawks march on border in protest of arming guards
Posted by admin on May 11th, 2009
Posted By Michael Peeling, Standford Freeholder
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Hundreds of Mohawks marched across the Seaway International Bridge into Canada from the U. S. on Saturday to protest a plan to arm border guards. And things are taking a more ominous tone as the protesters claim they’ll evict the federal government if necessary over the controversial issue. The “unity rally,” organized by the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, started with residents of the First Nation – which straddles the borders of Ontario, Quebec and New York State – being bused from a tent set up beside the Canada Customs and Immigration office on Cornwall Island (known in Mohawk as Kawehnoke) into the U. S..
Akwesasne Mohawks protest armed border guards
Posted by admin on May 2nd, 2009
03.05.2009 – Mohawk Nation News
MNN. May 2, 2009. The behind the scenes dictators are slowly tightening the screws. A boa constrictor starts by wrapping itself around you, gradually starts to constrict, tightens almost without notice and then strangles you until you’re dead. The plan is to hypnotize us into accepting this death hold without resisting. For the next month Mohawks of Akwesasne will be protesting colonial Canadian border guards arming themselves with Beretta 9 mm handguns in the middle of our community. They hope to start on June 1. Akwesasne is on both sides of the foreign Canada-U.S. border and home to the whole community regardless of this “imaginary lineâ€. We never gave our consent for these carpet baggers to carry weapons in our midst to protect their illegal extortion business. Their actions constitute a violation of our law and international law.
The financial and social cost of “securing†the 2010 Olympics
Posted by admin on May 1st, 2009
May 1, 2009, Briarpatch, Christopher Shaw and Alissa Westergard-Thorpe
On February 12, 2009, exactly one year before the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler, the grim future of political freedom in British Columbia was on full display. Military and police flanked by helicopters rehearsed manoeuvres in Vancouver, where escalating harassment, intimidation and surveillance of activists had already begun. Those celebrating the event put aside concerns about the costly preparations for the Games. As the orchestrated magic took hold in Whistler Village, celebrants and athletes were swept up in the moment. They, like most of the mainstream media and all levels of government, were simply not going to think about the elephant on the slopes: security. Security has emerged as one of the largest single costs associated with the 2010 Olympics, and will carry significant costs for civil liberties as well.
Measures aim to clear out Vancouver’s DTES before the Olympics
Posted by admin on Apr 29th, 2009
by Gwalgen Geordie Dent, April 29, 2009, The Dominion
With the Olympics less a year away, many pundits and officials have been musing about how the city is going to make good on its plan to “clean-up†Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) by 2010. One answer is both crude and sad: jaywalking tickets. Housing advocates of the DTES say ticketing for minor bylaw infractions are up. According to Nicole Latham, a staff member at the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), suspicions arose at the VANDU July 2008 AGM. “Someone asked how many people had been given a jaywalking ticket and half the room put up their hands.â€
