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  • Where’s That Olympic Truce?
    18 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 more (…)

  • Olympic Industrial Complex Meets Gold Medal Resistance
    11 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    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] (…)

  • Native Youth Movement Confront Olympic Torch
    29 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    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...
    www.no2010.com

  • The Olympic Torch Should be Put Out!
    8 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    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

  • The Olympic Resistance Network
    3 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    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!

  • Olympic Torch Falls
    31 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Olympic Torch Falls in Canada - No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!
    http://no2010.com/node/1237

  • Do You Believe? Canada’s 2010 ’Stolen Land’ Olympic Games
    20 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    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

  • Native Youth Movement: Send the Olympic Torch Back to Europe!
    3 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 game

  • Canadian Grotesque: The Warmongering GG, her Friendly Fascist Fuhrer and the 2010 Winter Games
    5 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 truce (…)

  • No 2010 Vancouver, Canada Olympic Games on Stolen Native Lands
    5 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    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 (…)