Thurs. Feb. 12, 2009
Gather at 6 PM at Victory Square
Cambie and Hastings
Coast Salish Territories, Vancouver
* Hot cocoa served in park *
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Organized by the Olympics Resistance Network
Email: olympicresistance@riseup.net or visit: www.No2010.com
Help us shine some light on the Olympic Industry and its impacts on our communities with a festive Torch Light Parade to mark the 1 year 'Countdown to 2010'. In calling for such a parade, we are following in the traditions of prior torch-bearing resistance marches in Vancouver. Torches will be provided if you want to be an official Anti-Olympic Torch bearer!
The 2010 Winter Olympics will take place on unceded indigenous land from February 12-28 2010. Far from being simply about ‘sport’, the history of the Olympics is one rooted in displacement, corporate greed, fascism, repression, and violence. Only the political and corporate elite – from real estate developers to security corporations – have anything to gain from the Olympics industry.
The effects of the upcoming 2010 Winter Games are already clear to us:- the expansion of sport tourism and resource extraction on indigenous lands
- increasing homelessness and gentrification of poor neighbourhoods
especially Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
- more privatization of public services
- union busting through imposed contracts and vulnerable working
conditions especially for migrant labour
- increased funding for the police, military and border control agents in the name of so-called national security
- ballooning public spending and public debt
- unprecedented destruction of the environment.
Resist 2010 ! No Olympics on Stolen Native Land !"
ORIGINAL SOURCE: No Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics On Stolen Native Land
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