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The 2010 Olympics are over, and we’re told that everything is back to normal. Wrong. Vancouver will never be the same.

(Sorry for the late notice, re-posted from the ORN Organisers list)

Please distribute to other anti-olympic contacts:

*********ORN MEETING********

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21ST, 6pm
524 Main Street (temporary location, not wheelchair accessible)

Since 2007, police & intelligence agencies have targetted anti-2010 Olympics opposition as a 'security threat' to the Games. This has included media articles based on reports from CSIS and police specifically mentioning Indigenous and other social movements in Vancouver. Police have publicly stated their need to increase surveillance of anti-2010 resistance.

By Rafe Mair - The Tyee.ca

There is a big plus for Autocrat Campbell and his toadies. All along the highway [to Whistler] there are new developments built by Liberal supporters. As Kevin Costner's character was told in Field of Dreams, "Build it and they will come"...This is all about "showcasing" (a dreadful word dreamt up by ad men) Vancouver and Whistler...I say, "dream on." Vancouver in February is not all that showcase-able and Whistler is already well enough known to wealthy offshore skiers.

by Jon Elmer - Tuesday, 02 December 2008

A coalition of indigenous elders, social justice activists and community organisers is voicing opposition to the upcoming [Vancouver/Whistler] Winter Olympics, promising to continue their protests up to and throughout the 2010 games.

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Updated Information

Media reps from all over the world are coming to Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver) to report on the 2010 Olympics ALL THIS WEEK. This is an opportunity for us to voice our concerns. Indigenous people are not only not benefiting from the 2010 Olympic preparations but suffering on Coast Salish Territory.

Everyone's Downstream II: Stop Playing Games With Our Lives
To be held November 22nd, 23rd at

The Edmonton Native Friendship Centre
11205 101 Street NW

This event is co-presented by OilSandsTruth.org [OST] with the Indigenous Environmental Network [IEN]

And on Friday November 21, 2008 at the University of Alberta:

Recently, members of Indigenous communities in Canada have expressed outrage at racist comments made by Richard Pound, currently serving as Chancellor of McGill University, Canadian representative on the International Olympics Committee (IOC) and member of the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) for the 2010 Olympic Games. During an August 2008 interview with La Presse, Pound responded to criticism regarding this summer's Olympic presence in China by drawing the following comparison: "We must not forget that 400 years ago, Canada was a land of savages, with scarcely 10,000 inhabitants of European descent, while in China, we're talking about a 5,000-year-old civilization."

CBC News

The City of Vancouver has agreed to lend up to $100 million to bail out the financially troubled company building the athletes village for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, CBC News has confirmed.

The developer, Millennium Development Corp., is facing an estimated $60 million in cost overruns on construction of the village.

Rail Blockade Disrupts CP Rail’s Olympic Spirit Train

“Six Nations and solidarity activists resist Olympic theft of Indigenous land, ecological destruction, and attacks on the poor”.

Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - The Province

VANCOUVER- Security forces are predicting protests will escalate as the 2010 Olympics approach and have mounted a number of 'intelligence probes' to counteract threats...The 'threat assessments' show police have identified several threats to Olympic security, including anti-globalization, anti-corporate and First Nations activists...

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CONCORD PACIFIC GET OUT!

Saturday,October 11th
2:00 pm
Victory Square Park (Cambie & Hastings)

- save the date -

Why Resist 2010?
A Conference on the Vancouver Olympic Games

UPDATES TO BE POSTED TO: http://resist2010.blogspot.com/

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Saturday, October 25th
Olympics Resistance Benefit Show
Rhizome Cafe, 317 E. Broadway (corner Kingsway)
Doors 8 pm
$5-20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Sunday, October 26th

On September 29, 2008 around 30 protesters greeted the Canadian Pacific Railway “Olympic Spirit Train” as it brought its propaganda machine through Edmonton. Highlighting that the train and the Olympic Games are interlinked with the same corporations carrying out the largest industrial project on earth known as the Tar Sands, protesters disrupted the “spirit train” celebrations with the spirit of resistance. Under the slogan of “No Games, No Tar Sands on Native Land!” demonstrators from the the community of Fort Chipewyan in “Alberta” came in solidarity to act with Native 2010 Resistance, the Olympics Resistance Network, Edmonton Anarchist Black Cross and the Indigenous Environmental Network to let the public know what’s wrong with the Olympics and the Tar Sands.