On the night of May 7, 2008 we set fire to a Kiewitt & Sons work truck. Peter Kiewitt & Sons is currently working on expanding the Sea to Sky highway between Vancouver and Whistler, the main artery for the Olympics, also paving the way for investment [in] land exploitation, tourism and development.

...[T]he [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] has warned that...actions will increase in violence; of course it’s not violent when they taser someone to death. The APC scoffs at the allegations of violence and repeats, 'the disruption targeting the preparations for the Olympic Games will definitely intensify'.

Martin Lukacs | Rabble

In this small, impoverished northern village, people eke out a miserable existence. One of the world's most powerful countries occupies their land, plunders their resources, interferes with their governance and seems intent on assimilating them into wider society.

With its Olympic Games at hand, the country would rather the international community dwell on its national achievements than cast scrutiny on these abuses.

by Seumas Milne - The Guardian

If a government wants to abuse human rights and rig elections, it needs to have the support of - or be - the western powers...[T]he best chance both of settling the Zimbabwean crisis and of meeting Tibetan aspirations is without the interference of western powers, which would do better improving the human rights records of their allies and themselves.

By David Carrigg - Friday, April 18, 2008

Squamish band members will likely protest at the 2010 Olympic Games despite the chief signing an agreement with the Vancouver Organizing Committee to support the event...["W]e have 3,500 members and not all want to be part of the Olympics. They want to talk about the children and the hardships in the community and they have the full right to do that."

Several groups in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside have filed a formal complaint with the United Nations in the lead up to the 2010 Olypics.

"The complaint sets out eight grounds of particular concern about the residents of the Downtown Eastside rooming houses and SROs, alleging that Canada has breached their requirements under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to ensure that everyone has adequate housing."

The ICT - an international policy think tank on terrorism - has released an analysis of actions taken against the 2010 Olympics in Vancovuer, BC Canada. They call for "an intensive knowledge-led" response to social justice groups and others "just interested in anti-social behavior" who have come together to disrupt the corporate games. Action must be taken "now", they continue, in order to quell resistance from becoming "increasingly unmanageable as the events approach".

A list of "violent" actions such as stealing flags and painting is included. Mostly Water gets a mention as one online resource for anti-Olympic organizers.

The Olympics are not about the human spirit & have little to do with athletic excellence; they are a multi-billion dollar industry backed by powerful elites, real estate, construction, hotel, tourism and television corporations, working hand in hand with their partners in crime: government officials & members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Inadvertently the United Nations has qualified the criminal junta that has enslaved the nation of Burma. Liken to Nevil Chamberland and his association with Adolf Hitler, Gambari and the military junta have become bedfellows. This new so called “Constitution” is nothing more than criminality on paper and will one day be part an parcel evidence whence the criminals of “Crimes Against Humanity” come to trial.

So yea want to do something for the suffering of Burma. Like I said, the most powerful tool we have is the all mighty dollar. This is only a small list but as you soon will see, it has many strange bedfellows. List provided by Burma: On line News and Analysis. Comentaries by moi.

From the jungles of Burma to the concrete jungle of modern America has become a challenge for the new arrivals to say the very least. I spoke with a Karen refugee woman, through my interpretor, and I was saddened by what she told me. Though she survived the ethnic cleansing of the military junta in Burma and managed to survive 10 years of hardships in a refugee camp on the Thai border, she was hard pressed to survive in modern America.

What started out as a vacation from my journalistic pursuits became a journey into a world many people never see. Their struggle, their stories and their plight, truly a walk through hell. I have become privy to the secrets from the jungles of Burma and Thailand. With the help of Burmese, Kachin and Karen friends plus refugee officials and missionaries I have become a welcome guest within the teaming refugee community here in America.

Native Resistance to the Olympics

"We are preparing to disrupt the Olympics any way that we can. We want to let the world know that our land is not for sale."

Sunday, March 02 2008 - Infoshop News

On the night of March 1st, 2008, the Elgin St. Royal Bank in Ottawa was - yet again - the target of the resistance to the ecocide and genocide perpetrated by VANOC and its corporate sponsors in the manifestation of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Yet again, the windows have been smashed in an act of solidarity with the poor and homeless of Coast Salish (Vancouver-Whistler), with the environment...and with Indigenous peoples whose lands and cultures are being co-opted for the sake of corporate profits.