Where’s That Olympic Truce?
By : johnny canuck - Thursday February 18, 2010 Where’s That Olympic Truce? by Derrick OKeefe "The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were boycotted in protest of the Soviet Union’s invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Then - US president Jimmy Carter announced the boycott in February 1980, and Canada and dozens of other countries soon followed suit. Thirty years later it is the United States, Canada and other NATO countries that are occupying Afghanistan... It’s now fair to speculate that the Games have been used even (...)
read more, comments... Olympic Industrial Complex Meets Gold Medal Resistance
By : Johnny Canuck - Thursday February 11, 2010 Showdown in Vancouver by Jules Boykoff ...Just behind the slick, smiley-faced facade of Olympic spirit, the Canadian state is flexing its militarized muscles, employing an array of tactics designed to suppress political dissent. I begin to sense what activist Harsha Walia of No One Is Illegal and The Olympic Resistance Network described as ’the overall militarization of Vancouver and an encroaching police and surveillance state.’ [Please forward and circulate] (...)
read more, comments... Native Youth Movement Confront Olympic Torch
By : afrikakorps - Friday January 29, 2010 Native Youth Movement Confront Olympic Torch in Secwepemc Nation The Olympic Torch was confronted by Secwepemc and their supporters in the Secwepemc Nation in the invader-settler town of Chase, so-called british kkkolumbia, KKKanada, with the message ’Secwepemc Say No Olympics’ and ’Olympic Torch Not Welcome in Secwepemc Nation’ http://mostlywater.org/native_youth... (...)
read more, comments... The Olympic Torch Should be Put Out!
By : Arthur Manuel - Friday January 8, 2010 The Olympic Torch Should be Put Out! Canada is using the Olympic Torch Relay to hide their terrible human rights record in regard to Indigenous Peoples here in Canada and internationally... http://mostlywater.org/node/78820 please forward and post widely
read more, comments... The Olympic Resistance Network
By : Johnny Canuck - Sunday January 3, 2010 The Olympic Resistance Network http://olympicresistance.net/conten... Why Oppose Canada’s 2010 Vancouver-Whistler Olympic Winter Games Please forward and repost widely. No Games on Stolen Land!
read more, comments... Olympic Torch Falls
By : Johnny Canuck - Thursday December 31, 2009 Olympic Torch Falls in Canada - No Olympics on Stolen Native Land! http://no2010.com/node/1237
read more, comments... Do You Believe? Canada’s 2010 ’Stolen Land’ Olympic Games
By : Johnny Canuck - Friday November 20, 2009 by The Dominion The Olympics are providing cover for an array of actions that would be politically unpalatable under normal circumstances... http://mostlywater.org/do_you_believe
read more, comments... Native Youth Movement: Send the Olympic Torch Back to Europe!
By : Johnny Canuck - Tuesday November 3, 2009 International Native Youth Movement (NYM) Statement: A Call to Indigenous People and Supporters Send Olympic Torch back to Europe! Confront Invasion: Protest 2010 Olympic Torch Relay: Indigenous Sisters and Brothers of the North, what the Invaders call KKKanada, for the next 106 days the Olympic Torch will run our Great Lands.. http://mostlywater.org/index.php?q=... www.no2010.com KKKanada’s KKKolonialism is not a (...)
read more, comments... Canadian Grotesque: The Warmongering GG, her Friendly Fascist Fuhrer and the 2010 Winter Games
By : Johnny Canuck - Monday October 5, 2009 Jean Rejects Idea of Games-time Truce in Afghanistan http://www.ctvolympics.ca/news-cent... "Shortly after signing on as official patron of the Olympic Games for the 2010 Winter Games, Governor General Michaelle Jean rejected a suggestion Monday that a truce be imposed on Canadian military action in Afghanistan for the 17 days of the Olympics. "I think we must build peace in Afghanistan, and that’s what our soldiers are trying so hard to achieve..." in her earlier remarks to the (...)
read more, comments... No 2010 Vancouver, Canada Olympic Games on Stolen Native Lands
By : afrikakorps - Friday December 5, 2008 A coalition of Indigenous elders, social justice activists, community activists and organizers are voicing opposition to the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. "We are the poorest peoples in the country. Not because the country is poor, but because the government continues to violate the human rights of the Indigenous peoples, by not recognizing our Aboriginal Title and Treaty Rights." http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php... http://www.no2010.com NO OLYMPICS ON STOLEN (...)
read more, comments... Resistance 2010: No Olympic Games on Stolen Indigenous Lands
By : afrikakorps - Monday August 18, 2008 RESISTANCE 2010! No Olympics on stolen land! Disrupt and abolish the G8 and SPP Active support and solidarity for local struggles of self-determination, justice and dignity In the year 2010, three major international events will be taking place in the Canadian state: the Winter Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler (between February 12-28); the G8 Leader’s Summit in Huntsville, Ontario (most likely in June or July); and the meeting of the NAFTA leaders as part of the so-called (...)
read more, comments... US Won’t Get a Gold Medal for Human Rights
By : Harry - Friday April 18, 2008 by Pat LaMarche Are we really having discussions about whether or not to participate in the 2008 Olympics? Are people actually sitting in coffee shops discussing whether the civil rights violations in China warrant a U.S. boycott of the opening ceremonies or even the games themselves? Man, this country really cracks me up. Extraordinary men and women, the absolute cream of our athletic crop, who have — for likely as long as they’ve walked — trained for the moment when (...)
read more, comments... Aryan ideals, not ancient Greece, were the inspiration behind flame tradition
By : giordano - Tuesday April 8, 2008 By Andy McSmith There is a two-word answer to those who think the Olympic torch is a symbol of harmony between nations that should be kept apart from politics – Adolf Hitler. The ceremony played out on the streets of Paris yesterday did not originate in ancient Greece, nor even in the 19th century, when the Olympic movement was revived. The entire ritual, with its pagan overtones, was devised by a German named Dr Carl Diem, who ran the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Although he was not a (...)
read more, comments... True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu. Awesome Videos!!!
By : Einer Für Alle, Alle Für Einen - Sunday January 13, 2008 True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu. Awesome Videos!!! True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu! Video Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Adg... True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu Video Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY_E... True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu Video Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYvi... True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu Video Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS6f... True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu Video Part 5 (...)
read more, comments... SPORTS NICKNAMES: HARMLESS OR RACIST?
By : David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru - Monday October 22, 2007 The late scholar and author W.E.B. DuBois once wrote, “The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” Sadly, it is also the problem of the Twenty-First Century as demonstrated by a majority of so-called “justices” on the current United States Supreme Court whose racism is so blatant they had the audacity to cite the case of Brown vs. Topeka, which outlawed racial segregation in public schools, to reinstitute racial segregation in public (...)
read more, comments... China to Force Rain Ahead of Olympics By Associated Press
By : Johan - Friday June 22, 2007 China to Force Rain Ahead of Olympics By Associated Press 1:36 PM PDT, April 25, 2007 BEIJING — Chance of showers during the 2008 Beijing Olympics: 50 percent. But Chinese meteorologists have a plan to bring sunshine. The meteorologists say they can force rain in the days before the Olympics, through a process known as cloud-seeding, to clean the air and ensure clear skies. China has been tinkering with artificial rainmaking for decades, but whether it works is a matter of debate (...)
read more, comments... Learning the Hardaway
By : Wayne Besen - Saturday February 24, 2007 by Wayne Besen Grey’s Anatomy star Isaiah Washington called a co-star a faggot and ended up in rehab, while former basketball star Tim Haraway said he hated homosexuals and now his career as an ex-jock pitchman is on a cold slab. This will be remembered as the year the F-word became the new N-word and homophobic comments were no longer considered acceptable in polite company. To be sure, America has not endorsed homosexuality, but the new rules do mean celebrities will lose (...)
read more, comments... Man fuel: Is it in you?
By : Jason Miller - Sunday January 14, 2007 Of Savage Imperialism, Pigskin Monopolists, and Intellectual Emasculation By Jason Miller "Two things only the people anxiously desire — bread and circuses." Juvenal Searching for masculine bliss incarnate? Look no further than NFL football and its myriad machismo delights…. Fierce armor-clad gladiators applying wicked hits, battering each other relentlessly, engaging in bone-jarring collisions, and performing feats of near super-human athleticism…. Provocatively (...)
read more, comments... Matt Norman, Peter’s nephew who write to Bellaciao and the Margaret Rees’s article
By : Matt Norman - Saturday November 11, 2006 Hello All, I wanted to thank all of you for your kind words and incredible support for my best friend and uncle Peter Norman. I am Matt Norman, Peter’s nephew who has just completed a feature film about Peter’s life and the struggle that he, Tommie and John went through during the 60’s. I want you all to know that I have had hundreds of letters of support from French people which is very moving to me. French people seem to have a true heart, a true spirit, a true moral (...)
read more, comments... Saints and the Superdome
By : Dave Zirin - Sunday October 1, 2006 by Dave Zirin New Orleans is a city that suffers in silence. These days, it feels like a city being strangled in slow motion, a city whose current condition makes a lie of every political platitude preached over the past year. Yet ESPN spent four hours Monday trying to make us believe that the Crescent City—through the magic of sports and the return of the New Orleans Saints—is on the verge of resurrection. The symbol of deliverance, we were told repeatedly during the (...)
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