Anti-Olympic Arrestees Appear in Court

Syndicated from No 2010

March 19, 2010

A Washington state man arrested during a violent Olympics protest for wrapping a bike chain around his hand, brass-knuckles style, was carrying the chain because he had been fixing his bike, court heard yesterday.

Report on Montreal IDAPB (March 15)

Syndicated from No 2010

By Gord Hill - March 17, 2010

“These 'peace officers' abuse their powers and sometimes even kill innocent and unarmed individuals without the least worry of being punished, since they know the system is there to protect them. This situation has a name: impunity.”

-- Montreal's Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (COPB)

Drunk Olympic Fans Cause "Violent Crime-Wave" During Games

Syndicated from No 2010 on Wed, 2010-03-17

VPD cite violent-crime wave during Games

Jack Keating, The Province, Thursday, March 18, 2010

Violent crime rose 30 per cent and there were more sexual assaults in the city during the 17 days of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Vancouver police said Wednesday.

However, property crime fell slightly and overall crime was down.

Olympics Fail to Win Over Large Chunk of BC: Poll

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March 14, 2010

[British Columbia] Premier Gordon Campbell may be disappointed if he is hoping for a Games-based popularity bounce, an extensive poll...suggests..."Basically, they are saying, 'Yeah, I watched the Olympics on TV, and yeah, it was fun, but to my mind, it wasn't worth it,'...They just think of them as a good party, with a big bill."

Montreal: 11 Cop Cars Smashed and Vandalized

Syndicated from No 2010

March 14, 2010

Eleven cruisers were vandalized overnight at the Montreal police traffic and road safety division's building in the city's St. Henri district...Windows were smashed and the vehicles' computers were damaged.

Conditions Ripe for Aboriginal Uprising

Syndicated from No 2010 on Sun, 2010-03-14

Conditions ripe for major aboriginal uprising, academic says

Young first nations people are largely poor, uneducated, prone to crime and live near vulnerable resource areas, ex-Forces officer argues

By Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver Sun, March 11, 2010

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Confronting RBC

Syndicated from No 2010 on Sat, 2010-03-06

Confronting RBC
Toronto's biggest protest against the Tar Sands
posted by Tim Groves, March 3, 2010
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/2942

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Black Bloc and Anti-Colonial Resistance at 2010 Olympics

Syndicated from No 2010 on Fri, 2010-03-05

The Black Bloc and the 21st Century anti-Colonial Movement at the Olympics
http://alexhundert.wordpress.com/

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Olympic Legal Defence Fundraising and Support Needed!

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.

After the Games: British Columbia's Hangover Begins

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.

G8/G20 to be Biggest Security Operation in Canadian History

Syndicated from No 2010

By Natalie Alcoba - February 22, 2010

The G8 and G20 summits this summer will be the largest security event in Canadian history...[T]here is already a glimpse of the force being amassed to protect those coming to and living in Toronto: the federal government’s “Integrated Security Unit” will include Toronto police, RCMP, the OPP, the Canadian Forces and Peel Region Police.

Vancouver: In Defence of the Diversity of Tactics

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.

Four More Anti-Olympic Rebels Arrested

Syndicated from No 2010 on Wed, 2010-03-03

Four more anti-Olympics activists arrested in Vancouver
Cops comment on catching "a whole paddywagon full of anarchists"
by Vancouver Media Co-op →2010 Olympics
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/2935

The Ganja Games

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.

Post-Olympic Budget Crunch May Benefit Environment

“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