As the Olympics get closer, the resistance mounts.
Anti-Olympic Arrestees Appear in Court
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Report on Montreal IDAPB (March 15)
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Drunk Olympic Fans Cause "Violent Crime-Wave" During Games
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Olympics Fail to Win Over Large Chunk of BC: Poll
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Montreal: 11 Cop Cars Smashed and Vandalized
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Olympic Legal Defence Fundraising and Support Needed!
Contributed by blackandred on Fri, 2010/03/05 - 12:13pm.
March 5, 2010
The Olympics are over but the struggle continues! Vancouver's political community is still being targeted by the police with substantial surveillance and intimidation, unlawful arrests and detentions, unnecessary violence, police provocateurs, and unjust charges requiring legal defence. Nearly 10 people in your community face legal battles and need your support.
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After the Games: British Columbia's Hangover Begins
Contributed by blackandred on Fri, 2010/03/05 - 11:20am.
By Am Johal - March 05, 2010
Budget Day in BC hit like a brick yesterday. After all the empty patriotism and uncritical headlines in Vancouver mainstream media that glossed over 8 years of democratic distortion, which approached neo-authoritarianism at times, the sad reality of Olympic opportunity costs are about to hit daylight.
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G8/G20 to be Biggest Security Operation in Canadian History
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Promoted by blackandred on Thu, 2010/03/04 - 8:59pm.
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Vancouver: In Defence of the Diversity of Tactics
Contributed by blackandred on Thu, 2010/03/04 - 8:32pm.
By Alex Hundert - Tuesday, March 02 2010
When the march reached the police line outside of BC Place [during the Feb. 12th "Take Back Our City" march], the cops started pushing and shoving the front line. Indigenous women called for the Black Bloc to move to the front to hold the line. When the elders amongst that leadership group decided that the crush from the police was too much, the Black Bloc made space for them to move to the back of the crowd.
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Four More Anti-Olympic Rebels Arrested
Syndicated from No 2010 on Wed, 2010-03-03
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The Ganja Games
Contributed by blackandred on Wed, 2010/03/03 - 12:04pm.
By MATT SIEGRFIRED - March 3, 2010
I was interested to see how the world media would pronounce on the very well developed and tolerated, if legally ambiguous, British Columbia marijuana mores...B.C. is a byword for quality herb and, relatively, chill enforcement with weed joining health care, curling and community theater as signposts of Canada’s more civilized society despite all of the similarities between them and us, the barbarians next door. With a wink and a nod Canada, more or less, let the heads alone during the games with only positive effects all around it would seem.
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Post-Olympic Budget Crunch May Benefit Environment
Contributed by Anonymous on Tue, 2010/03/02 - 7:42pm.
“These were not the 'Greenest Games', they were the Freeway Olympics...The [British Columbia] government has been attempting to brand itself as a 'Green Leader' during these games, yet their own studies show that provincial greenhouse gas emission targets are being undermined by their massive freeway expansion scheme...There is nothing green about paving farmland.”
-- Transportation Planner and GatewaySucks.org Organizer Eric Doherty
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