Since Feb 15, 2010 the Olympic Tent Village has been set up at 58 West
Hastings, an empty lot owned by notorious condo developer Concord Pacific,
currently being leased by VANOC as a parking lot for the Olympics. The
first few days at the Olympic Tent Village have gone strongly and
smoothly, thanks to the community effort to support and defend it.

By Vancouver Media Co-op - February 15, 2010

The daily newspaper of the 2010 Anti-Olympic Convergence, a project of the Vancouver Media Co-op.

Download a pdf of the Balaclava! Broadsheet HERE!.

Since Feb 15, 2010 the Olympic Tent Village has been set up at 58 West Hastings, an empty lot owned by notorious condo developer Concord Pacific, currently being leased by VANOC as a parking lot for  the Olympics.

The daily newspaper of the 2010 Anti-Olympic Convergence, a project of the Vancouver Media Co-op.

Download a pdf of the Balaclava! Broadsheet HERE!.

The sun was breaking through clouds early this morning onto Vancouver's day-old Tent City as the early-risers and those-still-awake gathered around camp

February 15th 2010 marked Day One of the Olympic Tent City Campaign under the slogan "No More Empty Talk, No More Empty Lots". Housing, poverty and First Nations activists gathered at PIgeon Park in Vancouver's downtown eastside to protest the lack of affordable/social housing, gentrification, the criminalization of the poor and No Olympics On Stolen Native Land in Vancouver, BC.

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Fifth edition of the daily newspaper of the 2010 Anti-Olympic Convergence.

Download a pdf of Balaclava! #5 HERE!.

 2010 Heart Attack was an Anti-Olympic march that wound its way through Vancouver's downtown eastside to downtown. Masked protesters blocked off intersections with newspaper boxes and other found objects, as well as smashed windows of Olympic sponsors such as the Hudson Bay Company. Riot police were eventually called to the march where police and activists clashed.

"It's a day of solidarity," explains Ashley Clayton, one of the people organizing a series of actions in Halifax highlighting the t

envoyé par un anonyme parmi tant d'autres

(ce texte n'est qu'un bref aperçu de la lutte des anarchistes contre les Olympiques de 2010 écrit à l'occasion de la présence d'un contingent anarchiste à la manifestation contre la cérémonie d'ouverture des Olympiques de 2010)

Vancouverites and concerned citizens from all over BC and beyond showed up and took to the streets today in full force to protest the 2010 Winter Games. The marched from the Vancouver Art Gallery all the way to BC Place where the opening ceremonies were taking place.

On the opening day of the 2010 WInter Olympic Games, protesters took to the streets of the Commercial Drive neighbourhood and successfully diverted the Olympic torch. 

View the slideshow for photography of todays resistance:

First edition of the daily newspaper of the 2010 Anti-Olympic Convergence.

The Vancouver Media Coop is releasing a broadsheet every day of the Convergence.

Download a pdf of the Balaclava! Broadsheet HERE!.

A solidarity event in response to state repression in our daily lives, in the context of the 2010 Vancouver Olympikkks. Recorded in Vancouver, January 22nd, 2010.