Olympic Industrial Complex Meets Gold Medal Resistance

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.’

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